Working With Your Hands Is Good for Your Brain

Activities like writing, gardening and knitting can improve your cognition and mood. Tapping, typing and scrolling? Less so.

Aristocratic Jack says:

March 28, 2024 at 4:26 pm

It’s been known for a long time that manual labor, particularly outdoor manual labor, is healthier than more sedentary, indoor tasks. Outdoor work gives the body exercise, the eyes get natural light (which some research seems to suggest may help stave off certain eye conditions, like myopia and astigmatism, especially in children) from being outside, the air’s always fresh (so long as the area doesn’t have any major pollution), and it’s no secret that being in nature boosts mental health.