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Andrew Huberman ON: Learning Effectively & How to Train Your Brain For Optimal Performance

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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The Brain Rewires During Deep Sleep and Rest

The brain actually rewires during deep sleep and rest. This is why one will strain to learn a language or a motor skill, over and over and over. During those micro rests, the hippo campus of brain areas that's associate with learning a memory undergoes replay at 20 times the speed. And thatas can lead, and has been shown to lead, to accelerations in learning. The nervous system already harbors these mechanisms, and one can access them through these little micro rests. So whether not you're a child or an adult, every so often, when trying to learn something, just pause for ten seconds or so, do your best to just clear your mind. If

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