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27: David Eagleman | How Your Brain Makes Sense of the World
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Importance of Plasticity in the Brain
It's unbelievably hard at our age to make changes to the brain. It's kids brains are very plastic. That's the term we use in my next book called live wired, which won't come out till 2019. The idea comes from the material plastic you can mold into shape and it holds on to that shape. But what the brain is doing is even better than that. Like holding shape and then passing that shape on to other things and then readjusting to new stuff. So it's even more impressive than a piece of plastic.
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