“Hey, I want to make $10,000 over the Labor Day weekend.”

It was my business partner calling with an idea for a new online writing course.

We used to think that intelligence is innate. Some people have it, and others just don’t. The brain we’re born with is the one we’re stuck with for life. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.

New and improving technologies in neuroscience are giving us deeper insight into the mysterious gray stuff between our ears. It turns out, our brains are surprisingly dynamic; we do things every single day that affect their structure and chemistry.

Below are ten of the ways that we can literally change our brains, for better or worse…

There are certain things that are universal which, if you give up on them, you will find your version of success. Sometimes, to become successful and get closer to the person we can become, we don’t need to add more things — we need to give up on some of them. You can give up on some of them today, while it might take a bit longer to give up on others.