[Youtube Review][TEDx Talks] After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver

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This time, I will review the popular YouTube videos.

These days, even if it's good to watch on YouTube, sometimes people skip it or don't watch it if it's too long.

When you watch Youtube, do you scroll and read the comments first?

To save your busy time, why don't you check out the fun contents, summary, and empathy comments of popular YouTube videos first and watch YouTube?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE

 

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Summary Comments : [TEDx Talks] After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver

Si*****:

Don’t listen clowns in the comments saying “I’ll save you 15 minutes, practice makes perfect” etc; It’s ONLY 15 minutes of your life, for free knowledge. BUT if you watched this and still quite didn’t get the essence of what she was talking about: it’s totally ok, it was a lot of information for this little time.
I’ll give you below quick notes from this TED Talk and my personal insights,
this should show you that it’s not just trivial “practice makes perfect”.

But take your own conclusions too.

NOTES

How do we learn and why some of us learn things more easily than others?

What we know about the brain is changing really fast over the years and a lot of these informations turns out to be not true, or not compete.

SOME MISCONCEPTIONS:
* We used to think that after childhood the brain couldn’t change
* That we use only parts of it, or that it is silent when we are doing nothing. (that’s not true, because even when you’re at rest/“thinking of nothing” your brain is highly active)
And so this thinking is really limiting our potential and is often used to make excuses. Also it’s important here to distinguish and reflect about “doing nothing” - consciously (for example in the state of meditation) which contributes to a positive changes in areas of the brain, and to “doing nothing” unconsciously which can lead to a various negative effects like overthinking, anxiety, depression, etc.

Your brain can change on 3 basic WAYS TO SUPPORT LEARNING:
1. Chemical
2. By altering its structure.
3. Altering its function.

1. CHEMICAL:
brain function by transferring chemical signals between brain cells (neurons) and this triggers a series of actions and reactions,

to support learning, your brain can increase the amount of the concentrations of these chemical signalling that’s taking place between neurons,

this change very rapidly and supports short-term memory, of the short-term improvement in the performance of a motor skill.

2. BY ALTERING ITS STRUCTURE:
During learning, the brain can change the connections between neurons. The physical structure of the brain is actually changing so this takes a bit more time. These types of changes are related to long-term memory, the long-term improvement in a motor skill.

EXAMPLE:
We’ve all tried to learn a new motor skill; maybe how to ride, playing the piano, draw, sing, you name it... You’ve had the experience of getting better and better within a single session of practice and thinking “I have got it.” And then, maybe you returned the next day and all those improvements from the day before are lost.
What happened?

In the short-term, your brain was able to increase the chemical signalling between your neurons. But for some reasons, those changes did not induce the structural changes that are necessary to support long-term memory.

So, You need to remember, that long-term memories take time(depends from person to person). And what you see in the short term does not reflect learning.
It is these physical changes that are now going to support long-term memories and chemical changes that support short-term memories.

To really learn something new you first need to prepare yourself for learning.
For example:
- prepare your body and mind (e.g. clean diet, clean environment, brain food, exercise, meditation, sleep, etc)
- find out your best way of learning for yourself (basically “learn how to learn”), schedule your time; take care of your time management.
- Cut negative self-talk,
- Stress management, etc.
Understand the process of remembering and be patient with yourself. Short-term does not reflect learning, but understanding and repeating this action lead to long-term memories.
I personally think that passion, curiosity, the mere desire to learn any topic are crucial in learning (you can also learn to develop these skills). Do the research, start from now. Contemplate: “How can I find balance between learning and pleasure?” (“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”)

EXAMPLES(of structural changes):
* People who read Braille have larger hand sensory areas in their brain than those of us who don’t.
* Your dominant hand motor region, which is on the left side of your brain (if you are right handed) is larger than the other side.
* Research shows the taxi cab drivers who actually have to memorise a map to get their taxi cab licence have larger brain regions devoted to spatial, or mapping memories.

3. ALTERING ITS FUNCTION.
As you use a brain region it becomes more and more excitable and easy to use again. And as your brain has these areas that increase their excitability the brain shifts how and when they are activated.
Whole networks of brain activity are shifting and changing.

LESSONS AND SUMMARY:

* You have to do the work:
the primary driver of change in your brain is your behaviour, so there is no neuroplasticity drug you can take. Nothing is more effective than practice at helping you learn.
* Increased difficulty, increased struggle during practice, actually leads to both more learning and greater structural change in the brain.
* Neuroplasticity can work both ways:
- It can be positive, you learn something new, and you refine a motor skill.
- And negative, you forgot something you once knew, you become addicted to drugs, maybe you have chronic pain, etc.
* There’s no recipe for learning. For some of us, it’s going to take a lot more practice, and for others it may take far less. The shaping of our plastic brains is far too unique for there to be any single intervention that’s going to work for all of us.
* Study how and what you learn best.
* Repeat those behaviours that are healthy for your brain, and break those behaviours and habits that are not.
* Everything you do, everything you encounter, and everything you experience is changing your brain;
And that can be for better, but it can also be for worse.

RELATED QUOTES:
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying”- Steven Pressfield

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Saint Francis

“So go out and build the brain you want.”

 

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Playtime Comments : [TEDx Talks] After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver

G*:

12:05 "Uniqueness of your brain will affect you, both as a learner and also as a teacher." Love this research based talk by Dr. Lara Boyd.

Vi*****:

12:24 "KAS:ST - The Infinite Thoughts" .... If you know, you know

An***********:

I’m at 3:40 and she’s just been telling me useless facts so far

Ts************:

0:11c

La*:

6:57

Gd************:

1:02c

Cl**********:

09:00 the girl using her phone to look at Instagram!..

GT****:

The person at 8:05 Gets off your phone before I give you a long time disability.

Pi*******:

8:30

He*************:

1:25 So funny

 

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Top Comments : [TEDx Talks] After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver

Ra**************:

When will ted himself show up to the talk?

st*****************:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I got click baited
And so did you

An************:

Summary:
1) DNA and genes (bio markers as you referred to them as) make you good at some things and bad at other things.
2) Practice makes perfect . Got it.

Su*******:

Yeap, we studied that in Psychology classes.

ke****:

After i watched this, my brain got tumor :')

Wa*********:

Isn’t it weird we all have a voice in our head, just like the one you're using to read this.

ik***************:

So, now we have proved what Confucius observed >2.5k yrs ago ;)
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

KR*:

This humorous clickbait is sooo weird..

Sa*********:

we need to change the education system

bo*****:

The brain named itself.

Al****:

I wonder when will Ted come out and have his....



Talks

Vo***********:

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

Ga**:

I always figured the short term memory is cool. I would not want to remember my shopping lists for life.

AX**:

how to say "practice makes perfect" in 15 minutes

Ph***:

The brain is so complex it doesn't understand itself, think bout that.

He*************:

My silly brain said "I like her boots" darn it brain! Quit making me look bad!

Er**************:

This is crazy cause I have a cousin who recovered twice from stroke pretty well. I thought it might be because he was constantly learning and playing guitar! God is Good!

Th**********:

I am going to save your 15 minutes. Please save your time. " Practice makes you perfect".

Ch**:

It's an amazing time to have a brain

Fi******:

15 minutes in 1 sentence: ur brain can change, end of story

Sh************:

Who are recommended this now

Ex*******:

"Genius is not about genetics, genius is about practice." Robin Sharma

10***********************************:

Don’t read comments....concentrate on the video.

LY*****:

Wow my brain did change, it feels smoother, more elastic and incredible.

Ga************:

To krabs
But she has been telling us that that no matter how old, we can learn new tricks, may be not as many as we want but much more than we believe.

Ke*********:

Sum up the whole Ted Talk in one sentence - Practice and do the work.

Sh******:

"Go out and build the brain you want!" -these lines will change our lives forever. Amazing

Kl************:

This video is underrated. Take the time to watch it.

1. Increased struggle during practice leads to more learning. We are shaped by everything that we don't do.

2nd lesson: there is no recipe for learning. The shaping of our brain is so unique. Each individual requires their own intervention including treatment of stroke. The behaviors we employ every day are important so we need personalized learning. Each of us change our brain differently.

Study how and what you learn best. Repeat those habits. Everything we are experiencing is changing our brain for better or for worse.

Mi**:

Brief:
Three levels of changes in neuroplasticity for learning:
* chemical changes for short-term memory,
* structure changes for long-term memory,
* functional changes for shifting brain areas.

The most interesting ideas are that:
* our brain will be shaped structurally and functionally by our behavior!
* difficulty during practicing lead to more changes in the brain (more efficient?)

Everyone is his own designer for his brain and be aware of our daily habit!

Hope you learn new skills more effictively.

 

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