Andrew Huberman· PhD
what people don't realize that you know greasing the groove that's the term proper term long-term potentiation is like when you are getting better at like that transmission gets stronger it's like your nerves become superconductors but there's also its evil twin long-term depression so pretty much what happens is now you're trying as hard but your muscles are not jumping in response anymore so one of the ways to uh get this long-term depression is by by failing so whenever you're attempting certain thing and if it doesn't happen that that's a way that pathway starts starts firing weaker and the inhibitory Pathways start become stronger and it becomes even worse if you're emotional about it so you said quite a few things about adrenaline but uh adrenaline has adrenaline does promote neuroplasticity but not always in a good way so if you look at the PTSD treatments you will find that if uh a person re-experiences that bad whatever thing that happened and then it gets into the feedback loop that positive feedback positive doesn't mean good positive it just means it keeps increasing it because every time that there's a spike of ADR adrenaline that reinforces the memory so if you missed the attempt and you also got really upset about it and you remember remember it again so you're making yourself weaker and weaker which reminds me of a very fascinating way that the Ancients used for uh to record some events before before there's writing so let's say there's a wedding between VIP families they bring a kid young kid seven-year-old let's say and make the kid watch the whole thing and after after the festivities they throw the kid into the river the kid crawls out of the ri and it was he doesn't know to he doesn't expect it and the kid climbs out of the river he's going to remember that wedding for the rest of his life he's going to hold that record because of the adrenaline Spike asso so that really did increase the neuroplasticity so that memory became really deeply ingrained so yeah part of uh part of disinhibition is not promoting inhibition is just not failing so Fred Hatfield had a beautiful line uh success beg gets success failure begins failure train to success not to failure