My favourite thing about neuroscience is discovering again and again how plastic the brain is. Anything can be learned and unlearned, at any age. A new skill, a different behaviour, a way of thinking - once you start, the brain will adapt.

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius 2,000 years later, as a neuroscientist, I can tell you he was right. Philosophy discovered what neuroscience proved: You're not stuck with the brain you have. You're building the brain you're becoming.

Every time you say “this is new for me” instead of “I’m bad at this,” you allow your brain space to learn instead of shut down. That’s neuroplasticity in real time.