Andrew Huberman· PhD
And this is why I say that neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to change itself in response to experience is first stimulated by attention and focus and often a low-level state of agitation.
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And this is why I say that neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to change itself in response to experience is first stimulated by attention and focus and often a low-level state of agitation.
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the agitation that one feels trying to solve a problem or read a hard uh page or passage in a book, the one that you have to return to three times that you can't wrap your head around, that that agitation is the stimulus for neuroplasticity.