THE AGITATION FROM ERRORS THAT ACCOMPANIES YOUR GENUINE ATTEMPTS TO DO SOMETHING NEW ARE WHAT TRIGGER NEUROPLASTICITY & LEARNING •

What you focus on, you can change.

You can learn skills if you focus.

And the agitation that you feel when trying to learn, that is the reflection of the cocktail of neuromodulators in the brain and body that allow

the circuits to change.

I wish I had been told this in like the third grade.

If they said, hey, when you're trying to learn something and it's easy, great.

But when you're trying to learn something and it's high friction, like you can't do it, that frustration is the first gate of learning opening.

And right on the other side of that is you continuing to try a little bit more.

You have to do this through genuine attempts to learn, but you get some errors.

So you can't just do throwaway errors, right?

If I'm trying to learn billiards, which I'm only moderately poor at, right?

If I'm trying to get better and I'm just like hitting the ball wherever, you don't learn obviously.

But if I'm trying and trying, the error signal sends a message to the brain that generates this agitation.

The agitation tags the neurons.

It literally puts a chemical tag on these neurons.

Tonight, when you sleep, you need to change.

That's what agitation does.

And then, when you get to sleep at night, those circuits change.

And then you come back a few days later, and you might not have the skill, but you are a little bit closer.

That makes sense.

That's neuroplasticity.