![]() That is why “unlearning” is often a lot harder than learning, and why early childhood education is so important – it’s best to get it right early, before the “bad habit” gets a competitive advantage.” (p.60) But when we learn a bad habit, it takes over brain map and prevents the use of that space for “good” habits. When we try to break a bad habit, we think the solution is to put something new into the container. “ Competitive plasticity also explains why our bad habits are so difficult to break or “unlearn.” Most of us think of the brain as a container and learning as putting something in it. “ doesn’t simply learn it is always “ learning how to learn.””(Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself, p.47) The Canadian-born and Toronto-based psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author describes the “behind the scenes” processes in our neurological networks, and the ways in which our brains constantly rewire themselves when we undergo various positive and negative experiences, growth, learning, damage, behavioural changes, relationships, addictions, fetishes, dysfunctions, traumas, or therapy. Here are some of his most interesting observations: ![]() Norman Doidge’s best-selling book The Brain That Changes Itself (2007) provides a detailed account of the latest discoveries in neuroscience and brain plasticity. ![]()
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