Tommy Wood
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390 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
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neurons only make up half the cells in the brain and there's all these other cells and then there's the blood supply and the structural proteins and all these things.
All of that can change in response to how we use our brains to help build both structure and function.
And in the sort of like modern environment,
We're trying to engineer out mistakes first in the education system where you teach kids it's bad to be bad at something.
You don't want to fail.
And then as adults, we kind of take that as well.
We hate to do stuff which we're bad at, especially if other people see us be bad at it.
That's why you don't go to the language class or the dance class.
And I've done this myself.
Somebody once signed me up for a dance class and I flat out refused to go because I felt so uncomfortable about how bad I was going to be at it.
This is now more than 10 years ago and I regret.
That was my response.
But I understand this feeling.
So when there's a mismatch between what you want to do and what you're actually capable of, the brain is constantly monitoring for that.
That's what mistakes are, actually.
So your brain is trying to do something.
It expects something to happen, and then it doesn't happen.
And then that kind of gets all the machinery going to say, hey, we need to make some changes to kind of close that gap between what we wanted to happen, what actually happened.
And so this is why engaging in like cognitively challenging tasks, engaging in new skills, making mistakes, getting better, improving over time,
These are the things that drive capacity building in the brain.
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