It Makes You Mentally Strong

Extensive research has shown that those who had music training were generally smarter than their counterparts; children who learned to play musical instruments did better in their academic studies than children who had not. 

 It goes without saying that some of the smartest people alive hav...

Prevention is the best medicine. It is really difficult to pull out of negative spirals once we've fallen into them.

• It's hard to pull out of a major depressive episode once we're in the habit of beating ourselves up.
• It's hard to stop worrying ...

Self-image can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. We need to see ourselves as a process, an evolving individual who is adaptive, flexible and shape-shifting. If we see our traits (like willpower or IQ) as fixed, we won’t be able to improve upon those.

Example: Fear of failure can be the ro...