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In my perspective, brain skill is correlated to health. What we can do? Sleep 7-9 hours, reduce stress, do exercise, good nutrition, eliminate alcohol and drugs. We need to do aerobic exercise, but also anaerobic. Some research suggest that anaerobic is fundamental. I would say that we need to do both. Besides this, there is research that we need to challenge our brain outside of our comfort zone. Do something difficult. For that reason, I do not play blitz. Only classical chess. Puzzles are extremely difficult. There are excellent books. Do middlegames and endgames puzzles. I like Maxim Blokh and Dvoretsky books. But, there are fantastic books written by John Nunn, Jonathan Speelman, Jacob Aagaard, Boris Gelfand, Boris Gulko, Steve Giddins, etc. It is important to do 50% endgames, 50% middlegames. If you have time do as many as possible every day. About chess games, I play a daily one on lichess.org. Do not focus on the results. Just play one game per day and analyze it. If you have money, hire a trainer. It is a myth that we cannot improve. If you have time, learn a new language, learn to play a musical instrument, study the great philosophers, and the great mathematicians. It is extremely important to study the last research about the brain. Subscribe to American Mind. Best of luck!