Get to know your brain

2025-11-13 | reading time: 3 minutes | brain, mindset

Our Brain is the center of our life. With the help from our neurons, it creates electric signals that make our heart beat, our fingers move, and our mouth speak. Basically everything you do happens from your brain. Yet most of us know more about our phones or our favourite celebrity than about the organ that makes us who we are. Let’s change that:

Before you blame your mood or motivation, check your hydration! The brain is roughly 75% water. Even mild dehydration can reduce attention, working memory, and mood. Drink enough water to stay sharp!

The human brain is fully developed around age 25. From birth until then, it goes through many stages of growth. During this time, it can easily change and learn from experience. The process never stops, it slows. While you are reading this sentence, your brain is rewiring itself. This is called neuroplasticity, a reminder that we are changing constantly. What we consume news, social media, conversations, even the background noise in our cities can literally reshape how we think, feel, and behave. Let’s stop here for a moment and turn inward: What are you feeding your brain?

Your mornings run on autopilot. Alarm rings. You might scroll or check messages, brew coffee or tea, brush your teeth. You do not really think about what you do, you are just doing it. Why? About 95% of brain activity happens below conscious awareness. The 95% include automatic and cognitive processing.

Now think about a path you take everyday (school, work, family or friend). At first, every turn, every stoplight felt like a puzzle. Now? You glide through it without thinking, your brain has wired the route so efficiently you could almost sleepwalk and still get there. The reason: Repeated behaviour, also known as habits, strengthens connections between neurons, which makes things faster and easier, even if they are harmful or irrational. That’s why habits are so strong. Try this: list your daily habits without judging them. Notice which ones shape your mood, energy, or relationships.

Emotionally charged events are more likely to be remembered. That’s why marketing, politics, and media aim straight for your feelings. Awareness keeps emotion a tool, not a trap.

Have you ever had the situation that you recall a memory with your siblings, friends or colleagues and each of you have some different memory of that event? That is because memories are not fixed, every time we recall something, we slightly rewrite it, this is called reconsolidation. But also because the brain doesn’t record reality exactly, it predicts it.