Andrew Huberman· PhD
It's only by moving it to late or after the learning that you're really shifting the role of that adrenaline increase to enhancing memory specifically.
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It's only by moving it to late or after the learning that you're really shifting the role of that adrenaline increase to enhancing memory specifically.
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and allowing adrenaline to have these incredible effects on reducing the number of repetitions required to learn.
So if you really want to leverage this information, you might consider getting your brain and body into a very calm and yet alert state. So a high attentional state that will allow you to focus on what it is that you're trying to learn. We know focus is vital for encoding information and for triggering neuroplasticity. But remaining calm throughout that time and then afterwards spiking adrenaline and allowing adrenaline to have these incredible effects on reducing the number of repetitions required to learn.
It is the presence of high adrenaline, high amounts of norepinephrine and epinephrine that allows a memory to be stamped down quickly and far and away different than the idea that we remember things because they're important to us or because they evoke emotion. That's true. But the real reason, the neurochemical reason, the mechanism behind all that is neurochemicals have the ability to strengthen neural connections by making them active just once.