Andrew Huberman· PhD
0 to ~25 years of age: our brain is highly malleable (robust neuroplasticity) but we have far less control over our life than adults do.
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0 to ~25 years of age: our brain is highly malleable (robust neuroplasticity) but we have far less control over our life than adults do.
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So that's the first important principle that I want everyone to understand, which is that developmental plasticity, the neuroplasticity that occurs from the time we're born until about age 25 is mainly a process of removing connections that don't serve our goals well.