Do One Thing Every Day That Makes You Smarter: A Journal [Paperback]

365 quotes and prompts to help you sharpen your intellect and blaze new neural pathways every single day--part of the bestselling Do One Thing Every Day journal series.

The mind needs stretching and exercise just like the muscles in your body. According to cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf, groups of neurons create new connections and pathways among themselves every time we acquire a new skill. If you want to feel the burn, now is the perfect time to start a daily mental workout.

This inspiring journal offers a quote and a prompt or activity for every day of the year to help you expand your self-knowledge and flex your brain with word, number, and optical puzzles. It's non-dated so you can start on any day you like--pick a page that engages you! Daily doses of wisdom from famous writers, philosophers, musicians, MacArthur genius grant winners, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs, and more will inspire you to make exercising your brain part of your routine.Robie Rogge is a New York City-based packager who has created many successful guided journals and novelty products for Clarkson Potter and the Museum of Modern Art.

Dian G. Smith is a freelance writer and reading specialist.I am still learning

—Michelangelo


This was a favorite saying of one of the greatest artists of all time. And modern science has proved him right. Neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to change throughout adulthood—was one of the great discoveries of the late 20th century. “We come into the world programmed with the capacity to change what is given to us by nature, so that we can go beyond it,” according to cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf. “Groups of neurons,” she writes, “create new connections and pathways among themselvelã-