Homework: What does London taxi driver's brain inspire you? Express your thoughts.
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In the deliberate practice of the second chapter, a phenomenon is put forward. A person who wants to keep fit can achieve the effect of muscle building and bodybuilding through constant exercise and purposeful practice. Similarly, learning a foreign language is the same.
So, why is this happening?
Through a lot of research, it is found that our brain will make a series of reactions and changes in response to a lot of training. The structure and operation of the brain will change with different psychological training, to a great extent, just like the reaction of your muscles and cardiovascular system to physical exercise.
In other words, our brain will change its original "use" under the constant stimulation of new things. It can be understood as "the more you use your brain, the smoother it is", and the machine that can't turn around begins to run with lubricating oil. This kind of lubricating oil is designed to constantly stimulate training.
As long as everyone has normal IQ, they can master new skills and become masters through professional training and practice.
The brain of a London taxi driver, this chestnut, is amazing. A normal person can remember all the streets and lanes in London through four years of unremitting training. Miraculously, through MRI scanning, we finally got the hippocampus of taxi drivers, hiding more neurons and other tissues and enhancing their navigation ability.
Just like bodybuilders, after years of training in dumbbells, parallel bars and floor exercises, their muscles have been trained for a long time. The back of the hippocampus of the taxi driver is also "swollen", but it is full of brain tissue, not muscle fibers.
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Some time ago, it was circulated on the Internet that the development of human brain was 10, and Einstein became the smartest person recognized by human beings. His brain is only 15% developed, and it is usually less developed.
So imagine what it would be like if human beings 100% were developed. Isn't life over? For example, the heroine in "Three-body" has super powers. But scientists have told us a fact through research: both our brains and Einstein's brains are 100% developed.
The human brain is amazing. Everyone is different because we receive different information. For example, a normal person suddenly loses his vision one day, and gradually his hearing and touch will become more and more sensitive because of the increased frequency of contact and use to make up for the lack of vision.
The example of a taxi driver in London makes me feel that one day I can have a certain specialty and become a professional barista. Regardless of age, the body is aging, but the brain is not.
Scientists have found that the brain cells in the human brain will not decline with age, and even some parts will continue to grow and improve the function of the brain, even at the age of 70, 80 or 90.
You remember Grandma Van Gogh. She started to learn painting in her 70s and then held a solo exhibition in Hong Kong.
Deshun Wang, an old man, began to drift north at the age of 49, began to practice muscles at the age of 60, and began to play film and television dramas at the age of 65. At the age of 79, the runway became popular.
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Come to think of it, I am only in my thirties now, so I must seize the unique function of my brain and make good use of it. At the age of 60, I am free to go where I want to go. I will never sit at home and wait for my children to visit me again.
I hope that one day, my son will tell others that I will live a vigorous life like my mother in the future!
I read on the Internet that the research on brain cell regeneration in recent ten years has clearly pointed out that "with proper stimulation, brain cells will regenerate like skin, replacing dead cells." ? "
From this perspective, the old saying "never too old to learn" is not only a truth, but also a replicable truth.