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Dr Andrew Huberman | Understanding your brain + optimising its function

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Learning Is a Two Stage Process

In order to learn at any age, the most critical thing is that you bring as much focus and active engagement to the learning. And then that you get into a state of deep rest as quickly as possible. The actual rewiring of the nervous system happens during states of deep sleep, or sleep like states an so when we say neura plasticity, the brain's ability to change in response to experience, that's a two part process,. It's not an event. We always think about things as events, but in biology, almost everything is a process. This is why you try something physically Try it physically You can't do these non-sleep rests right now...you don't

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