Using Failures, Movement & Balance to Learn Faster

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Surprises also provide a great opportunity for plasticity through the release of dopamine. Learn to attach dopamine to making errors and focused bouts of making errors during learning. Afterwards you are in a state of heightened learning for at least 60 minutes.

Vestibular system: hardwired system for balance. Three main modes of movement (pitch, ja and roll). Brain knows the orientation of the depending whether the head is moving some or a combination of the movement through the ear canals. If we are off balance, the cerebellum signals the release of dopamine, epinephrine and asidocoline to avoid falling.... See more

Plasticity can be as large as in youth if there is a serious incentive for the plasticity to occur. How bad we want it or need it determines the rate and magnitude of plasticity. You cannot practice passively.

Always drill down deeper once you feel frustrated. The adult brain cannot cope with large errors, but only with smaller incremental ones. You have to stack the errors to achieve plasticity. Smaller bouts and bits of learning are necessary per learning epoch.

Flow isn’t a state of learning it is a state of expression for already learned skills.

Motor movements are the most straight forward way to access plasticity either for sale of the movement or for accessing plasticity for another task. 7-30 minutes of making errors with full focus is a significant stimulus to inspire plasticity. These happen within the 90 minute altradian cycle.

limbic friction: when our autonomic nervous system isn’t where we want it to be (too tired or too alert). Too alert - double inhale, one exhale & dismaying gaze. Too tired - coffee. You want to match the arousal what you want to learn. Before any learning bout: how much limbic friction am I experiencing? How much do I need?

The motor, auditory, and visual systems teach themselves. Try out different parameters and find the ones which make the behavior better and then focus on these. Isolate the errors and make a variety of errors in a particular aspect of the motor movement to signal it is plastic.

In Young brains the process happens automatically:1. Epinephrine to increase alterness2. Asidocoline to increase focus. Ability to focus on the error margin between what you did and what your goal was.3. Dopamine once you decrease your errors to speed up plasticity.