Think harder and you can save your new brain cell!

  
  Recently, I have read an article in Scientific American March 2009 titled "Saving New Brain Cells" by Tracey J. Shors. This article about the finding of neurologist about the capability of mammalian brain to sprout new neurons cell. In 1990, neurologist found that  thousands of new cells are generated in the adult brain everyday,particularly in the hippocampus,a structure involved in learning and memory. Within a couple of weeks, most of those newborn neurons will die, unless the it is challenged to learn something new. Learning—especially that involving a great deal of effort—can keep these new neurons alive.
     In the rat studies, they shows that relied on “eyeblink conditioning” experiments to discover that working hard to learn something enhances the survival of new neurons. They began with a classical form of the experiment (top), in which an animal hears a tone that is followed half a second later by a stimulus that
will make it blink. After several hundred trials, most animals learn to blink just before the stimulus arrives. Because the tone and the blink-inducing stimulus are separated in time, figuring out when to blink is difficult; this task rescues a large fraction of newborn neurons. Rats master readily an easier version of the test—in which the blink stimulus overlaps with the tone (middle); this task does not enhance survival of new neurons. Making conditions more challenging—by having the rat wait much longer before the stimulus arrives (bottom)—rescues more neurons than even the classical approach does

From the experiment above, we can conclude that harder the difficulty of the learning process, more newborn neuron cells we can saved. In my own opinion based on  the experiment, in learning something that difficult or something that we don't have natural talent on it, for me I'm very suck in drawing.(hahahaha). But its okay because at least in learning process you can save your very precious cell which is the brain cells.

If you have interest in one field or skills that you the  have zero talent on it, just keep trying until succeed. Don't bother with other people says, like "you're idiot", "you are numb" because of the simple thing you can't understand (because they are really talented on that skills). Never give up.

The God is Al-Muqsith (The Equitable One), He did not create the very fast learner and the slow learner without any reasons. To the fast learner, the God give you the ability to help the others and using your brain for good, and
the slow learner the God give benefits to increase your brain potential and eventually both fast learner and slow learner are genius.