Analysis: You Can Grow Your Brain

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After reading the article, “ You Can Grow Your Brain,” reflect it and then tell me about a situation in which you “grew your brain”. When reading the article the first thing that popped into my head was me. My brain grows every day, I have dyslexia so my brain is constantly growing. At days my brains also shrinks, when i'm feeling like a failure. With the help of my family and friends motivating me to reach my goals, it pushes me to push my brain to become stronger. Having Dyslexia is extremely hard but it also pushes you to become better. My brains muscles are constantly shrinking and extending. By challenging myself to new things my brain gets stronger but, when I let all that negotiative into my head my brain shrinks and it becomes harder

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