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Episode 100 · How the Brain Works
You Are the Programmer
A hundred videos in, the real question is what you do with the science now. Your brain is not something you are stuck with. It is something you train.
The Science
- Across the series, neural plasticity means the brain is not fixed: it is shaped by repeated input.
- Every system covered here, attention, stress, sleep, learning, connection, choice, is one control panel.
- Each choice you make is a command that nudges the wiring underneath, which is self-directed change.
- Your brain is not something you are stuck with; it is something you train, and you are the developer of how it runs.
The Protocol
- Make ownership the daily protocol: notice the state you are in.
- Name the mechanism behind it.
- Change one input, then run the experiment again.
- You will not master all of it at once, and you do not need to.
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Sources
- Draganski B, Gaser C, Busch V, Schuierer G, Bogdahn U, May A. (2004). Neuroplasticity: changes in grey matter induced by training. Nature, 427(6972), 311-312.
- Maguire EA, Gadian DG, Johnsrude IS, et al. (2000). Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. PNAS, 97(8), 4398-4403.
- Kleim JA, Jones TA. (2008). Principles of experience-dependent neural plasticity: implications for rehabilitation after brain damage. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51(1), S225-S239.
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