The brain and nervous system of a baby is wired very crudely. The connections are not precise, and we can see evidence of that in the fact that babies are kind of flopping there like a a potato bug with limbs. And then as we mature, as we go from da one of life to ten years old, 20 years old, 30 years old, what happens is particular connections get reinforced and stronger, and other connections are lost. So i want you to imagine in your mind that when you were brought into this world, you were essentially a widely connected web of connections that was really poor at doing any one thing.

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