Will you have such a moment: thinking about problems at home and thinking about the anxiety, or no ideas, looking up, it is not yet time to clean the room, so the brain is even more difficult to use...
Wait a minute! At this time, you can do housework, maybe you can find an idea.
Studies have found that doing housework with a clear goal can improve brain executive function.
What is the executive function of the brain? It can be simply understood as: the brain's ability to self-manage.
For example, in the face of a blank scheme page, the brain would have thought:
"I'm going to make a brilliant plan in half an hour."
When the brain is not performing strong enough, it often... jam.
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however! If the brain is performing strongly, it may come true.
All in all, brain executive function is really important.
So how does doing housework affect brain executive function?
A Japanese research team conducted a study on doing housework, asking young volunteers to come to the lab to clean up twice:
Once the goal is clear: use a vacuum cleaner to clean the floor sprinkled with confetti;
One time to deal with the errands: use an unplugged vacuum cleaner to clean the already clean floor again.
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Before and after both cleanings, volunteers conduct a test that interferes with the brain's judgment: saying the correct color of the text.
First look at the card whose word matches the color and say the color; then look at the card with the word and color discrepancies and say the color. The difference in the number of pairs of cards answered by the two types of cards can reflect the strength of the brain's executive function.
For example:
The results found that after doing housework with clear goals, it was less likely to be disturbed and the brain's executive function was better.
When the brain is stuck at work, instead of being in a daze or brushing the mobile phone, it is better to immediately do a serious housework, such as tidying up the messy wardrobe and cleaning the dirty dishes... Maybe it can be opened.
However, it is not okay to cope with errands and do housework perfunctorily, we must have a clear goal and clean up carefully.
I didn't expect that doing housework would have this benefit!
What's more, there's one more reason to make others fall in love with housework!
As it is, the human body is wonderful
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