Lesson 5: How We Think Impacts How We Act - Slide 30
To Truly Master New Skills You Need Continued Practice
- Maintaining improvement and making a skill permanent requires the slow steady work that forms new connections
- Sustained practice solidifies learning because:
- It goes beyond strengthening existing neuronal connections in the brain
- It actually creates brand-new structures,
new neuronal connections and synapses
- More permanent change takes up to 6 months of training
- Daily training leads to dramatic short term changes and continued training leads to more permanent changes
Notes:
Pg. 197-200, Doidge, Norman, 2007, “The Brain That Changes Itself,” Penguin Books, New York
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