Rhetorical Analysis Of Training By Elizabeth Day

Is it truly possible to actually make yourself more intelligent and agile with learning just by “Training” it? That is a question that every person has or will have once in their life. Let it be because of bad test scores or pure curiosity. The answered really goes down to the person itself. People are all different and they all have different ways of learning and comprehending other things and people. Elizabeth Day the author of the article” Can you really train your brain to be more intelligent?” decide to test it out herself and let her audience in on what she’s learned. Day went on a website called Lumosity, a popular “brain training” website, to test if there was an actual way to “train” her brain, or anyone’s brain, into being more intelligent. …show more content…
“For the past month, I have been completing a series of computer games designed to test my memory, verbal reasoning, concentration and spatial awareness” (Day). At the beginning of her journey Day said that her scores were “pretty pathetic” and some of the things that she had to test were really easy or really hard. Sometimes the things she believed would be easy were actually pretty hard and things were definitely not made easy for her. As she got deeper into her journey and near the end she worried about the actual things she had learned and by the end of the journey when she got her results she was pleased. Her scores read that she had improved in every single part of the test except for one. Pleased her her scores she left the “brain training site” and went back to her regular life. “I might not be a genius yet, but I’m really good at identifying when the word red is written in blue ink. That’s probably enough to be getting on with for now” …show more content…
The brain has an amazing way of growing and understanding. If there is someone who truly believes they are sick or not sick their brain can make their body work with them. So that means that if someone wanted to “make themselves smarter” or “more intelligent” your brain works faster or it doesn’t make you feel as nervous or stomped as it does when someone, per say, is taking an exam and they become too nervous and worried that their brain focuses on that instead of the work. If there is a person that goes into a test that they made have studied hours for thinking ‘I will fail’ then their brain will be so caught up in those thoughts that they run out of tie or they don’t think clearly. So the answer to the main question would be Yes. But only if that person is willing and hope of improving. The saying “You can do be anything or do anything you want if you believe” really is true if the person is willing to work and hope for a positive