Andrew Huberman· PhD
thus embracing *entirely new challenges* that place us on (metaphorical) newborn calf’s legs allows for more plasticity in other, more established circuits too.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
thus embracing *entirely new challenges* that place us on (metaphorical) newborn calf’s legs allows for more plasticity in other, more established circuits too.
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Because in that novelty and in that exploration of new behaviors and new ways of thinking, you are opening the portal to plasticity, whereas in doing what you already know how to do and trying just to perform better and better at it, you will get better at chess, but again, that's just chess.
Two words, seek novelty. That's the whole game is you got to continually challenge the brain.