Willie Horton's Personal Development Ezine

Psychology tells us that the brain exhibits an enormous capacity for plasticity - that is to say that our brains reshape and resize themselves according to the uses to which they are put. Unfortunately, normal people, whose minds control them, put their brains to very limited use and, indeed, any use to which it is put is largely a function of the psychological learning that normal people acquire during their early formative years. As a result, many neural pathways in the normal brain wither and rot as a result of lack of use.

Research shows us that neural pathways that are in regular use become strengthened and broader facilitating even greater traffic through the area in question. They really do become six lane neural highways. Recent research has highlighted the physical changes in the brains of those addicted to online gaming. Research as long ago as 2001 pinpointed the fact that London Cab Drivers' brains' hippocampus was 50% larger than that area of the brain in normal people - because that is where they store 'The Knowlegde' (how to get around London).

In short, your brain - the physical manifestation of your mind - can be rewired according to the uses to which you put it. Regular mental exercising that develops your ability to focus and achieve will enable your brain develop in a manner that will, sooner or later, ensure that being focused and effortlessly successful will become the new norm for you.