Your Brain is Like a Muscle: Use it and Make it Strong

for playing basketball, or to make more abstract comparisons, like deciding whether the purple ball or yellow ball is heavier to solve the puzzle above. With good reasoning skills, you can learn new things more easily, both at school and in your favorite hobbies. These skills help you to: (1) make sense of new information by linking it to other things that you already know, (2) understand the point of a story or problem and how this can be applied in a different context, and (3) notice when something does not make sense or goes against something else that you have heard [1]. Studies show that children with good reasoning skills find it easier to get good grades in school and can handle more challenging careers when they grow up.