2025-03-21
26 分钟In your book, you talk about the mechanisms of neuroplasticity.
What are the mechanisms of neuroplasticity and the three factors that have the biggest impact on changes in the brain?
So the first one is myelination.
And anyone who does a lot of sport, who repeats a certain,
you know, weight training will understand that that's what's happening in their muscles.
You know, when I said, you know,
you come here pretty much every day and you sit with someone and you interview them and you're really great at asking questions,
that's something you're super good at.
That because you repeat it, it becomes like a superpower.
And that means that what's happening there is myelination.
So myelin is a fatty substance that coats some neural pathways and those pathways become fast pathways.
Now, there's a reason from evolution why we have some fast pathways and some slow pathways.
And the reason is that if you put your hand in the fire,
your reflex to snatch your hand out is a fast pathway, but your pain reflex is a slow pathway.
Because if you were incapacitated by pain, the minute you put your hand in the fire,
you wouldn't be able to get away from it.
One of the mechanisms of neuroplasticity is becoming even better at something
that you're really good at.
And that happens through myelination.
The most common one, which is something that you're quite good at, but if you had loads of time,