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New research on its recently unimagined neuroplasticity shows that what you pay attention to, and how, can actually change your brain and thus your behavior. This extraordinarily practical scientific breakthrough shows that like physical fitness, the mental sort that sustains the focused life can be cultivated.
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Neuroplasticity is a real thing. Your neurons, just like your muscles, can rewire and grow through discomfort.
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neural pathways we don’t use die off over time. What makes our brains hold on to these pathways — and create more — is not simply repeating the same things we’ve learned over and over again, but continually taking on difficult problems.
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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.
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Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich agrees. Merzenich, described as the world’s leading researcher on brain plasticity, explains that new functional circuits in the brain can only be achieved through repetition. His description of the brain is of something which alters itself with attention and exercise, almost like a separate, living entity. It is al
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Pushing yourself over the smallest hump urges the brain to give up an old pattern for a new one. You are actually expanding your awareness when you let in fresh impulses from the source, which is the real you.
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