Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Here's another example.
Exercise.
Okay.
If you want to play tennis better, if you want to run a faster mile, what do you do?
Train.
Train.
And you do the same thing over and over and over and over again.
And you get better and faster and you burn fewer calories.
You get more efficient.
Why?
Because your brain's predicting really well.
That's what muscle memory is.
It's not literally a memory in your muscles.
It's a memory in your brain.
Your brain is controlling your muscles.
And so if you practice the same set of movements over
over and over and over again, you just get really efficient at them because your brain is able to predict better.
Now, if you're somebody who's exercising because you wanna become healthier or you wanna lose weight or you, right?
You don't wanna practice the same exercise over and over and over again because you will be burning fewer calories because you're being efficient.
That's the goal, right?