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.
He also points to the importance of navigating new environments to not just go on the same hike every week, or take the same walk, but actually get into new novel environments. So you're starting to sense a theme here. There's novelty, exploring contingencies, keeping the stakes relatively low, et cetera, et cetera. But these really are the gates to this holy grail that we call neuroplasticity.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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play, isn't just one portal to plasticity play is the fundamental portal to plasticity and that play and dance and exploration of novel movements, exploration of novel athletic movements are the route by which we access new ways of thinking new contingencies.
adults that maintain a playful stance that engage in things again that are low stakes contingency exploring. Important enough that people focus and that people pay attention to what they're doing, but that they are not, you know, filled with adrenaline, you know, freaked out about the outcome being A or B. they're not super super competitive, maybe just a little bit competitive or not competitive at all. That allows for more ongoing plasticity.