Michael Merzenich Quotes

#1. If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

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#2. Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

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#3. Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

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#4. To learn is to change how you think.

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#5. My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

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#6. Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

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#7. My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

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