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Using Play to Rewire & Improve Your Brain

Huberman Lab

Playfulness Is Not About Learning Something for Sake of School

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Play is about establishing a broader framework within which you can learn new things. It's not the same as learning something for sake of school, or critically, trying to learn a motor behavior for sake of sport. Animals that play for a long period throughout their life have very plastic brains. And there is even some evidence,. at this point, largely anecdotal, but there are some data starting to emerge that adults that maintain a playful stance engage in things, again, that are low stakes, contingency exploring.

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