Andrew Huberman· PhD
Work toward maximal or near maximum density of repetitions and failures provided they can perform safely in order to accelerate skill learning
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Work toward maximal or near maximum density of repetitions and failures provided they can perform safely in order to accelerate skill learning
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work toward maximal or near maximal density of repetitions and failures provided their failures you can perform safely in order to accelerate skill learning
the things to optimize are repetitions failures more repetitions more failures at the offset of training having some idle time that could be straight into sleep or it could be simply letting the brain just go idle for 5 to 10 minutes mean not focusing on anything not scrolling social media not emailing not ideally not even talking to somebody just lying down or sitting quietly with your eyes closed letting those motor sequences replay