Is Writing A Good Exercise For The Brain?

By Staff Writer and SSCHEPER, What Writing Does

When we think about exercising, we think about going to the gym, running two miles on the treadmill, boot camp, riding a bike or lifting weights. What about exercises for the brain?

“One day, Dr. Stephen Krashen grew curious.

Enjoying the beautiful sun of Southern California, he paused and asked himself a couple questions. Everyone always told him that in order to become a better writer, you must write. “But is this really true,” he asked. “How do we know for sure?  And how does one uncover the answer?”

As a black belt in Tae Kwan Doe and a champion in VeniceBeach weightlifting competitions, two things always drove Dr. Krashen: curiosity and discipline. Now, as a middle-aged man, questions like those above were his outlet for exercise.

Much like his 300-plus published papers and books, those questions drove him to dive deep into the beliefs we hold true. And his research on this subject changed our thoughts about writing forever. In fact, his research on this area led to his induction in the International Reading Association’s Hall of Fame–a profound and prestigious honor.

His paper, We Learn To Write By Reading, But Writing Can Make You Smarter, yielded two findings:

1. Writing does not help you become a better writer; reading does.
2. Writing makes you smarter and allows you to solve more complex problems.

Dr. Krashen found that through writing, the brain becomes stimulated. And Ph.D.’s from UC Berkely, Robert Yerkes and John Dodson, have found that through stimulation, the mind is pruned to become more focused an attentive. The more your mind is stimulated, your mind grows and increases its ability to focus.

In summary, two important things were discovered about focus through writing:

• As one writes, they become smarter
• As one writes, they increase their ability to focus”

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