The Importance Of Over Thinking On The Brain

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In “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens,” Benedict Carey stated that when one over thinks, he or she is unable to learn and their ideas lack inspiration. Carey wrote “could not see an opening” and “run out of ideas” and “working to a point where you’ve exhausted all your ideas” meaning that over thinking affects the brain from performing its job (Carey 114). Several articles found online supported Carey’s argument with the fact that overthinking makes the brain not function properly. Throughout the book, Carey provides examples of his claim. An article, written by Kasper Tang Vangkilde and David Brehm Sausdal, titled “Overponderabilia: Overcoming Overthinking When Studying ‘Ourselves.” supports Carrey’s …show more content…

Being with just talking and thinking to themselves, the process continues and later becomes out of control; all their ideas start to become similar and blend together, causing confusion towards organization on an assignment. Nothing at this point will be organized and clear in the brain. Another article, written by Sarah Bates, titled “How to Stop Chronic Over-Thinking and Brain-Chatter.” showed another way to prove Carey’s claim. Once your brain starts to over think, it won’t stop. Focusing is no longer in your vocabulary. Becoming exhausted leads to information not retained easily, therefore; a few steps to avoid overthinking is to first clear your mind. Then take the time to let the information you are studying to sink into your brain. Don’t stress out or panic and calmly breathe. Focus. The less someone panics and over thinks, the more information preserved. Having beneficial studying tips help keeps information in your brain. Your body won’t feel exhausted or worn out. Shown by the two articles above, Vangkilde, Sausdal, and Bates have proven that Carey’s claim is accurate about the fact that overthinking messes up the person and their …show more content…

“Brain must apply a filter” and “they’re blocking out trivial information” explains that the brain would need to do extra hard work in order to remember the past as well as the present (Carey 23). An article shown proved that Carey‘s claim is accurate. “Health Check: Can Your Brain Be 'Full'?” written by Fiona Kumfor and Sicong Tu are both doctors that explained that similar information in the brain can get mixed together, therefore; one information is interfering another one. Useless information can be forgotten; it is not important to have those kind of memories. Old memories tend to get pushed back in the brain which allows new memories to form. Additionally, Eric Kandel, a neuroscientist, wrote an article about a memory is created due to a person’s activity. His article, “The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses.”, explained in depth what happens to a memory over time. People need to absorb in ideas to be able to retain the memory. If one doesn’t continue to repeat an activity, then that memory from that particular activity will slowly fade away. Learning is something that human beings can be able to remember things, however; humans consistently learn which leads to having to remember more things. The doctors and neuroscientist have proven that Carrey’s claim is accurate towards how old memories get forgotten, so new

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