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.
remember that study that showed that hard tasks hard challenges are what activate the entor mid singulate cortex easy challenges don't okay habits that are reflexive simply do not
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the anterior mid singulate cortex can be built up as a structure to engage tenacity and willpower by activating it through one or a limited number of different types of behaviors meaning engagement in behaviors that frankly we would rather not engage in as as well as not engaging in behaviors that reflexively we really want to that we're sort of drawn to engage in
so what you're looking for when you are interested in growing your inter singulate cortex I'll tell you why that's a good thing to do is you're looking for that feeling of Leaning into challenge that friction if something's too easy or it's too delightful that's not going to contribute to your ID singulate cortex function and growth
the anterior mid singit cortex is really responding to a variety of inputs as a lot of different inputs and outputs we know that based on neural circuit tracing but it absolutely responds best to things that feel like that they are indeed difficult that they are a challenge
is a region of the brain that is involved in leaning into difficult challenges of all kinds this is an area of the brain that gets larger when we embrace effort that leads to a bit of internal anxiety but it's something that's good for us an Adaptive thing
challenging Endeavors that stimulate the growth of the anterior mid singulate cortex are challenging Endeavors that we would prefer not to do we may want the end goal right so we may want the the consequence of the exercise the consequence of the learning the consequence of whatever the challenge is but that the challenge itself feels uncomfortable
it seems that doing things that are difficult that we don't enjoy or that we have to push ourselves to do grow and enhance the activity within this anid singulate cortex
across multiple people you're seeing the same general kind of forward Center of mass kind of response leaning into Challenge and challenge specifically and then there's now scores of studies in the just the last 3 to 5 years showing that for instance people who successfully overcome a challenge of any kind fitness challenge cognitive challenge interior mid singulate cortex expands or at least increases its Baseline levels of activity you see people that fail to meet that challenge less inter mid singulate cortex activi