Serious question about brain space and intelligence

there is no evidence to suggest you have a "brain limit"

>>8947907
>there is no evidence to suggest you have a "brain limit"
But areas of your brain do grow in size in relation to your skills, right?
Then if a person is blind, part of his visual cortex is allocated to processing sounds.

>>8947881
your brain specializes in what you spend your time doing. You really won't get great at something unless you spend the majority of your awake time doing that thing.

your "math centers" won't be degraded by doing other stuff, but they will by lack of use. You can maintain as long as you dont go too long not using them. But they do take away in a sense from the potential that they'd have as the opportunity cost of spending time on other things is not have as specialized of a brain.

>>8948088
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

>>8947881
Diversify your skill set.

>>8947881

Find the sweet spot between specialization and diversification. Obviously spreading yourself thin is a bad idea, but a lot of the hobbies that you mentioned are also helpful for general cognition, and switching tasks every now and then will keep you focused and motivated. Spending all of your time doing one thing may incur diminishing returns anyway.

>>8947881
This >>8949227. Most mathematicians in my department, including myself, don't exclusively just "do math". Even when you're trying to study new stuff, doing other things during breaks will help your brain form links so that you will ultimately remember the stuff you want to study way faster.

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>>8947881
Constantly learn, take some time out for daydreaming if you aren't already prone to fantasy, weed helps with fantasizing, but stay away from habitual cannibis use, and be very careful with it if you have a schizoid mind(Google) take psychedelics fairly regularly usually low or micro doses and occasionally some big ones, start with the big ones. Like every month or so. Intuition, experience, and some glanced over empircal evidence tells me it improves neural connectivity, and the altered states of consciousness allow for new cognitive behaviors.
I suggest studying things like logic, systems, networks, life especially living systems, (meta)physics, do a lot of "stamp collecting" I've been studying biology since I was three starting out with animal encyclopedias and can see the living world work in beautiful ways I can't share with too many other people. Philosophize and write it down. Go saunter. You just need to be curious and your mechanisms will take care of the rest.

>>8947881
Depends, your skills in mathematics may benefit from other other hobbies anyway.

For example, a person who enjoys playing video games based on problem solving or logic (spacechem, talos.. etc) may have an advantage when it comes to logical knowledge sets such as mathematics or programming then someone who spends their time playing first-person-shooters.

Granted, not substantial. But logic is logic, regardless of media.