Understand Neuroplasticity To Learn Faster
"Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain." - Santiago Ramón y Cajal
What is Neuroplasticity?
🧠 Neuroplasticity occurs when brain neurons are rearranged to consolidate learning.
⚙️ Information is encoded in the brain through the creation of neural pathways.
🕎 A neural pathway is a highly branched chain of neurons that use neurotransmitters to conduct electrochemical signals.
🏗️ When we learn, connections between neurons are created or destroyed, or existing pathways are strengthened.
⚡️ When a specific neural pathway is activated, a unique piece of information will be recalled.
🧠 We call stored information memory.
👁️ There are many types of memory and information is stored in both the conscious and unconscious mind.
🤯 There are around 86 billion neurons in your brain and vastly more unique neural pathways that encode information.
👴 Our capacity to learn through neuroplastic change is vast and lasts a lifetime.
Neuroplasticity Requires Focused Attention
👶 In early childhood, neuroplastic learning occurs automatically by mere exposure to information.
🧐 In adults, neuroplasticity requires focused attention on the information being learned.
🧠 During focused attention, epinephrine (called adrenaline outside the brain) and acetylcholine are released.
🔓 These neurochemicals must be released for neuroplastic learning to occur.
Frustrated Learner? Perfect!
🤬 Epinephrine released during a challenging task creates agitation that can prompt people to quit.
🌱 This sensation is natural and necessary for learning.
⏱️ When this agitation occurs, continued practice for 7-30 minutes will enhance neuroplasticity.
💪 Persistence during difficult tasks increases the rate of learning.
🧐 Neuroplasticity is enhanced if attention during practice is focused on why errors occur.
🏆 Any execution that reduces error will stimulate the release of dopamine to reward that execution and motivate repetition.
🗓️ Learning occurs much faster if spread across multiple short sessions rather than one longer session.
✅ Multiple sessions allow for a fine-grained definition of errors which enhances neuroplasticity and speeds skill acquisition.
Marking Neurons For Change
♻️ The neuromodulator acetylcholine is released during focused attention and is critical for neuroplasticity.
📍 Acetylcholine marks neurons involved in the ability being learned for subsequent change.
😴 Neurons marked by acetylcholine will be modified during sleep or states of deep relaxation that follow the learning practice.
🤓 Neuroplastic changes do not occur during the learning practice itself.
The Importance Of Sleep
💤 Learning is consolidated by neuroplastic changes that occur during sleep or states of deep relaxation.
😑 The brain must be resting for the rewiring of neural pathways to occur and create memory.
🛌 Most neuroplastic changes will occur during sleep following the learning practice, but memory formation can also occur two or three nights after.
🪬 Neuroplasticity can also happen in states of deep relaxation such as non-sleep deep rest meditation.
⌛️ A 10-minute non-sleep deep rest protocol or short nap after a focused learning session can help consolidate learning.
Guided Non-Sleep Deep Rest Protocol:
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😵💫 If sleep or deep relaxation does not occur following learning practice, learning will be impaired.
Strong Emotions Drive Rapid Neuroplasticity
😬 Highly emotional events like emergencies or trauma can drive instantaneous neuroplasticity.
👀 Such events focus attention very intensely and the survival advantage of remembering them is clear.
🤼♂️ Events strongly linked to immediate survival such as hunting for food or conflict also drive neuroplasticity.
🫡 A strong sense of purpose or other internal motivation can dramatically enhance attention and learning too.
🤔 These enhancing effects can be leveraged by focusing on the personal significance of what you are learning and aligning this with your wider purpose.
💪 Further internal motivation can be generated by recognizing the effort required to overcome a learning challenge as the key to personal growth.
🙏 Gratitude for the challenge itself can make the effort required inherently rewarding.
😤 Aligning your sense of purpose with overcoming learning challenges will enhance neuroplasticity.
✊ This mindset will increase your rate of growth and help you develop discipline.
👁️ Change your mind. Change your reality. 👁️
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