--- title: Five Best: Moving As a Kid Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain description: Moving when you're young might strengthen your adult brain, this cheaper way to file bankruptcy could help struggling consumers get a fresh start and more. canonical: https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-12T16:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:30.412Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Moving When You’re Young Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Moving When You’re Young Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Moving When You’re Young Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 12, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Moving when you’re young might strengthen your adult brain.**](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/well/move/moving-when-young-may-strengthen-the-adult-brain.html) By Gretchen Reynolds in the _New York Times_ **2\.** [**This cheaper way to file bankruptcy could help struggling consumers get a fresh start.**](https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-struggling-consumers-a-cheaper-way-to-file-for-bankruptcy-1505096071) By Katy Stech Ferek in the _Wall Street Journal_ **3\.** [**Is America still a ‘Nation of Ideas?’**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/america-nation-ideas-donald-trump-215532?lo=ap%5Fe1) By Jedediah Purdy in _Politico Magazine_ **4\.** [**Just using a brand you trust could make you more confident about what you’re doing.**](http://news.vcu.edu/article/Study%5Ffinds%5Fconsumers%5Fgrow%5Fattached%5Fto%5Fbrands%5Fthat%5Fboost%5Ftheir) By Leila Ugincius at _Virginia Commonwealth University_ **5\.** [**Here’s how to trick your body into feeling awake after a terrible night’s sleep.**](https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/trick-yourself-into-feeling-awake-after-a-bad-nights-sleep.html) By Susie Neilson in the _Cut_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/"},"headline":"Moving When You’re Young Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain","datePublished":"2017-09-12T16:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:30.412Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Exercise","Bankruptcy","Brands","Sleep","America"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4937173/moving-when-youre-young-might-strengthen-your-adult-brain/","name":"Moving When You’re Young Might Strengthen Your Adult Brain"}}]}] ```