The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
When we want something to happen, however, we want to learn a language, we want to learn a new skill, we want to become more motivated, what do we know for certain? We know that that process of getting neuroplasticity so that we have more focus, more motivation, absolutely requires the release of epinephrine. We have to have alertness in order to have focus and we have to have focus in order to direct those plastic changes to particular parts of our nervous system.
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it is the focused deliberate attempt to learn something that creates that sense of underlying agitation that is the trigger the stimulus for neuroplasticity
one is that agitation and stress and the neurochemicals that underly agitation and stress that is the stimulus for Learning
We know that process of getting neuroplasticity so that we have more focus, more motivation, absolutely requires the release of epinephrine. We have to have alertness in order to have focus, and we have to have focus in order to direct those plastic changes to particular parts of our nervous system.