Hello, friends on the Internet, everyone, I am your new friend, more than just, today I will continue to share with you some of my feelings about reading the second chapter of "Intentional Practice".
The second chapter is the adaptive capacity of the brain
Seeing this topic, my first feeling is to develop the potential of the brain.
I think of the 2014 American blockbuster " superbody ", the heroine Lucy in the film after absorbing some unknown substances, the brain potential quickly awakened and expanded. The scene was very shocking.
At that time, I imagined that it would be nice if my brain could wake up a little bit.
However, experts have long pointed out: All parts of our brain are being used, and there is no such thing as developing potential.
just means that our brain has a strong adaptability, just like our body.
Fitness people know that if we implement a reasonable fitness plan and exercise regularly every week, we can lose fat, gain muscle, and maintain a good posture.
The brain is the same. Through planned and reasonable deliberate practice, certain changes will occur, but it is difficult for us to intuitively see this.
The author wants to prove to us that the brain has strong adaptability.
He studied London taxi drivers, blind people, musicians and other different types of people.
Taxi drivers in London, they are more powerful than GPS navigation system. In the city of London with complex roads, they can quickly determine a time-saving and accurate route from a place to a place.
However, it is not easy to become a qualified London taxi driver. They are successfully employed after passing very strict training and examination.
The author found through several experiments that those drivers who successfully got on the job had much larger brain hippocampus compared with those who failed the test and ordinary people who were not drivers.
Another experiment found that when blind people touch braille, the part of their brain that is originally used for vision will have an effect.
In addition, through experiments, the author also found that through music training, the brain structure of musicians can be changed, thereby improving their performance.
The above experiments have proved that the brain is really amazing.
As an ordinary person, although we do not understand what the above principle is. We just need to remember their conclusion: the brain is highly adaptable. That's it.
As the saying goes: the more you use your brain, the more flexible you are. It is also a manifestation of the adaptability of the brain.
In our daily life, if we want to make some progress in our brains, we can actually insist on doing some purposeful mental training.
is like the strongest brain that has been popular in recent years. Those contestants with strong memory and strong logical ability in the show, apart from their talents, I think they must have been after a long time, very Professional and very hard-trained.
Someone once joked that the most developed period of their brain power was the third year of high school, because that year, most people studied hardest in order to enter the university, change their destiny, and study.
Although we don't know what changes will happen to the structure of our brain through training, we can definitely feel the improvement of one of our own abilities.
For example, when we go to school, we will do a lot of questions, and when we see similar questions that we have done before, we will have a certain idea of solving them.
Another example: We practice English listening by grinding our ears. After practicing for a period of time, we find that we can understand a lot of content, etc., this kind of similar thing. In fact, it can be said that through training, our brain power has been improved.
In addition, deliberate mental training will definitely have good results, but there are still a few details that we need to pay attention to:
First, the younger the age, the better the effect of deliberate practice.
Therefore, if we want our children to learn a musical instrument or master a specialty, the sooner we can develop it, the better.
Of course, we who are a little older and want to learn something, deliberate practice will also be helpful. Because as long as you have a dream, it is never too late to study.
Second, deliberate practice will strengthen one of our abilities, but it will inevitably weaken the other.
Maybe this is the so-called gains and losses. It is the most important part that we deliberately want to pursue. Let him go with what we lose.
third,Once you stop deliberate practice, those cognitive and physiological changes caused by deliberate practice will disappear.
is like learning English. After we stop practicing for a period of time, we forget a lot of content.
Fourth, all training should follow the principle of moderation.
Once over-training, our brain and body are prone to fatigue and slack, so training is not easy to persist, and the effect will be poor.
The reading experience of Chapter 2 of "Intentional Practice" is shared here.
If you have a friend who is reading the book "Intentional Practice", you can come and share your views on this book.
Let’s share in the next chapter.
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