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Recast: Understand How Your Brain Works with Dr. Andrew Huberman #338

Muscle Intelligence

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The Importance of Attention in Learning

As an adult, you can control more of your experience typically, but your brain isn't as readily plastic. So how can you learn things? We should probably talk about learning and acquiring new skills. And we should talk about unlearning, because a lot of times what gets overlooked in the conversation about plasticity are people that want to stop thinking a certain way or behaving a certain way. To learn new things as an adult, we're to unlearn for that matter,. attention is key. The other thing that can amplify the learning process is a sense of urgency.

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