Dr. Lila Landowski

You need to keep repeating the thing that you're doing because basically the brain doesn't want to change.

And in order for you to learn, your brain is physically changing.

It's making these brand new little connections called synapses between neurons when you're learning.

right?

And the brain isn't going to want to put all of that energy into making these new connections if it's something that you've only done once.

And so when you're repeating something, it's basically flagging to your brain and saying, hey, this is important because it keeps coming up over and over again.

So let's actually physically change and make that

process easier and more efficient.

So repetition is really critical when it comes to learning.

Sleep is important too.

So, you know, we used to think that sleep was a bit of a waste of time.

You know, we're spending a third of our lives in suspended animation, just like chilling.

But that's how I want to live.

Yeah.

And it's like, it's like actually critical for learning.

So when we're doing things throughout the course of the day, we're putting things into a short-term memory storage.

So part of our brain called the hippocampus is really just keeping track of what we're doing and what's sort of important.

So if I was to ask you what you were doing this morning or what you had for breakfast, you're using your hippocampus to recall that information.

And when we go to sleep, basically all of those important things throughout the course of the day get flitted off into other parts of our long-term memory storage.

so if you don't sleep the short-term stuff doesn't get converted into long-term memory so you know that's why it's so important to sleep you have to think of sleep almost as is really the time when your brain is changing and actually doing the consolidation the actual learning yeah it's doing its file story yeah yeah um we often feel bad when we make a mistake and we kind of