I have often thought that to be a professional musician or a highly skilled jazz musician that it takes much more brainpower than the average profession - one that simply memorizes facts and applies them within their daily work. There are some professions, of course, that must constantly exhibit a high level of creativity such as surgeons, trial attorneys, and scientists dealing with research and development, just to name a few.
But the reality is, many jobs these days do not require a high level of “thinking” when it comes to simply completing the job at hand. In other words, a roofer simply lays the roof without a high level of thought. Even a profession such as nursing, often comes down to routine tasks done over and over again.
A study at Vanderbilt University found that professionally trained musicians use a creative technique called divergent thinking. It also found that musicians use both the left and right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person.
This research was done by a group of Vanderbilt psychologists. One of the psychologists put it this way:
“We were interested in how individuals who are naturally creative look at problems that are best solved by thinking ‘out of the box. We studied musicians because creative thinking is part of their daily experience, and we found that there were qualitative differences in the types of answers they gave to problems and in their associated brain activity.”
Previous studies of creativity have focused on divergent thinking - i.e. the ability to come up with new solutions to open-ended, multifaceted problems. Highly creative individuals often display more divergent thinking than their less creative counterparts.
The researchers also found that, overall, the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians, supporting recent studies that intensive musical training is associated with an elevated IQ score.
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Interesting. If we study music will that increase out IQ?
that's interesting. maybe that's why I suck at my guitar xD
Katharine, our brain acts like a muscle, so if we work our brain for a different goal, we'll get a different response from it. Another interesting thing is that our brain needs "rest" and needs to do different "tasks" in order to grow e.g.: You are a writer and want to write better and better
(that is your goal) but instead of reading and write as much as you can, your brain would get more efficient results on your own writing if you’d start to play chess, or start to study math or music ( they are quite alike ), or just make anything different ‘cause you would also be resting your brain from all the reading and writing!!!
The main thing here is: if we know how our brain works we save time and effort on the learning process.
Miguel, I'd say that you just don't practice enough, you have practice and then you have GOOD Practice, the last one is better !!!!!!
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