
23. Patience and Thalamic Gating
The OptimalWork Podcast
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What Is the Worst Advice for a Young Student With Socks and Shoes?
When you're experiencing things involuntarily, it's mostly using these fibers going from the thalamus to your cortex. So when people have been raised without shoes or socks, and they had to first put them on to go to the British school that's just been set up in their colonial town, it was agony for them at first. But then after a week they wouldn't notice. What would be the worst advice to give that young student wearing socks and shoes for the first time and having a hard time dealing with it? Take them off every, or just take them off every couple hours. Just take them off and gradually we'll help you get used to them.
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