More on learning and intelligence

My current piano teacher (on C/D) makes the statement "Patience, persistence, and enjoyment of the process leads to mastery." Repeat that every morning after your morning prayers—no, before your prayers.

As chance would have it, a new and important scientific study substantiates the "persistence" part. You train your brain. A couple of implications from these results:

• If you still believe the mind and body are separate, you can stop now. 
• You may be what you eat, but you also are what you practice. What you do, makes a difference—in your brain. To put it in religious terms: Good intentions are not enough, you must act.