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BS 190 How our Brain gets things done with David Badre

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Is There a Decrease in Motivation?

A graduate student at columbia trained herself to do math problems over and over again. She then spent four days from morning until night, with only some brakes for meles,. just doing those problems day till night. And so it was striking about that experiment, that initial demonstration, it was actually later replicated in the forty or some work by a sciencist. There was no evidence of a decline in inefficacy. It was certainly the case there was a decline in motivation. But in terms of, like, the efficacy o mental efficacy, there was no Evidence of a decline. We have only barely scratched the surface of your fantastic book.

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