Question: how does the human brain get so smart

Sonia Lenehan answered on 7 Nov 2018:

Every person is very different and that means that their brains are very different. So the brain gets it’s ‘smartness’ from genes passed on from your parents and what environment your brain was exposed to. That is why some people who are good at maths may have had parents who were good at maths and were teaching you maths from a very small age or you could be really good at languages because one parent speaks a different language and you could have been hearing 2 different languages at home. Then it depends on you and what you enjoy doing!! We always learn things easier if it is something we actually enjoy.