Tips On How To Personally “Level up”
What Is Intellectual Wellness? Intellectual wellness is all about striving to expand upon our knowledge and acquire new skill sets. It encourages us to engage in creative and mentally-stimulating activities that aid in creating beneficial lifelong habits. Fostering intellectual wellness can help us develop a love for learning and a strong sense of curiosity that helps us “level up” and grow as people!
Did you know…
- Growing intellectual wellness can be beneficial for your mental health.
- Intellectual wellness helps build memory and increase cognitive skills.
- Teens are highly capable of complex learning and should involve themselves in extracurricular activities such as sports, music, theater, art, cooking, and more.
- Engaging in activities that stimulate the mind can decrease feelings of laziness and even teen depression.
Check out these awesome ways to foster intellectual wellness:
- Test your skills, join competitive sports like soccer or basketball to keep busy.
- Learn a new language, and gain inspiration from places you’d like to travel to.
- Listen to relaxing music while reading books on interesting topics.
- Get more sleep at night to have the energy to engage in activities.
- Learn how to cook and follow recipes to make dinner for your family.
- Be open-minded to learn new things. You never know what you may be good at.
- Always challenge yourself to find what is important and meaningful to you.
What the students had to say: To gather opinions and information for this article, we collected responses regarding intellectual wellness from local high school seniors. Nearly all of the students agreed that it is important to aim to get a greater understanding of the world, learn new things and be open-minded. Many watched youtube videos in order to do so and fostered intellectual wellness with hobbies such as reading. They also slept/ate to restore their brains, and are interested in traveling all around the world! The students are on the right path to fostering intellectual wellness and becoming the most open-minded and curious versions of themselves.
Contributors: Health & Wellness 2nd PD
Resources:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/debunking-myths-of-teen-depression
https://www.unh.edu/health/intellectual-wellness