Building mental muscle: applying physical training principles to your brain

We all know that training our bodies physically helps us to avoid physical illness. Well thanks to the intersection between psychology and neuroscience we now also know that we can train our brains mentally to avoid mental illness and be totally awesome in the process.

So I may have an entire module on the neuroscience of mindfulness as part of my Masters in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, but the interesting thing is that I’ve learned so many tips from my dog.

We may be cutting edge on performance mastery tools, but I certainly wouldn’t say I’m cutting edge on the latest acronyms, or so many other things for that matter. I only learned a few months ago that FOPO stands for Fear of Other People’s Opinions.