Dr. Michael Kilgard

is so different than what we were told.

We were told you've got this brain, it's very dangerous, you should wear a helmet, you should not mess with it.

And the fact that it's alive and moving to me is just much more consistent with my experience with my own inner life and interact with other people.

So the fact that the science matches the everyday experience I think is one of the most enlightening parts of those experiments.

I mean, they always tell you don't sweat the small stuff, and then you learn that every little thing matters, and you start sweating the small stuff.

You start realizing that the kinds of mobile you got matters, that it's interesting.

We had a mobile, and the mobile would go around in a circle, and it was just boring.

I thought it was uninteresting.

And I'd move it so it would bump into something and do something a little more interesting from time to time.

My kids spent a lot of time looking out into the natural world.

So there were birds flying and coming and going and not predictable kinds of patterns and, again, tried to avoid some TV.

But the idea that we're kind of in a hurry.

You've got to hook up all these neurons.

Being an adult is going to happen fast.

You've got trillions of connections to make.

Every experience is contributing to that.

So bedtime stories and songs and walks in the park are all making those changes.

That's surprising.

It's surprising that all that stuff matters.

But it does.