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Dr. Jo Boaler - Is Your Mind Limitless?

Smart People Podcast

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The Neuroplasticity of Our Brains

neuroplasticity is the recent understanding that our brain changes based on how we use it. michael murchinich is credited with discovering neuroplasticity and i tell this story in the book of how he discovered it by accident they'd been mapping out the brains of monkeys and then set that work aside and gone away for a few weeks but when they came back to the work they found that the monkeys brains had completely changed so at first they thought this was a mistake and they redid their work. But this kept happening until they started to realize that the their brains were actually changing and they were changing a lot. When they first published that work they got a lot of

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