Jim KwikFounder, Kwik Brain · Brain Coach

THIS impacts your brain health 😮

21 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Jim Kwik explains how the people around you shape your brain through mirror neurons. He breaks down five ways you absorb from others: the words you use, actions you copy, thoughts you adopt, character you emulate, and habits you pick up. These social influences can outweigh genetics and smoking in determining your cognitive health.

Positive peer group. Okay.
Oh, so the company you keep has an impact on your brain health?
Yeah, huge. Because we know who we spend time with is who we become. You have something called mirror neurons, and we tend to imitate people we spend time with. So I always say WATCH. W are words, like the terms we use. We start using the same words and language as people around us. A in WATCH is our actions. We start modeling the behaviors of the people we spend time with. Like whether or not you smoke has less to do with your biology and more does your friend's friend smoke? Yeah. Because it's those networks. The T in WATCH, your thoughts. We start having the same thought patterns as the people around us. The C in WATCH, character. We start modeling the integrity of the people we spend time with. And then finally, the H in WATCH, our habits. You know, we start having the same habits of people around us.