Blog Personal Growth How the Brain Changes Itself
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05 February 2010
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Actually great read for such a complex subject... at times I felt I
was reading some sort of science fiction book.... the stories are
astonishingly triumphant!
I love the idea that our brains can be changed to work differently... even help the blind see, post-stroke victims leading normal lives, and the stories go on.
Two major principles I got from the book are: "Neurons that fire together, wire together" and "Neural pathways must be used or you lose it." It also warns that for as much as our brains are flexible, it can also be just a rigid or more so and that's why change can feel so hard at times.
The conversation about what we can change and what we can't continues to spark great intrigue for me and this book opens the floodgates to my curiosity on how more knowledge in this area will affect how we wish to experience the world from a social or personal growth context.
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