Ep 38: Why is it hard to teach an old brain new tricks? | INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN

[@jamic6351]

Stellar ! Found the backgound sound difficult, earbuds and all. Normally catch you as podcast. Found YT, and it’s all the better. Just got more out of it. Drop dead handsome, I guess.

[@PhillippAvgustinovich]

Thanks from Russia's Far East, Dr. Eagleman, great content!

[@victor9]

What a time to be alive!

[@fravinek]

...thank you, dr. Eagleman, you are a didactic genius.

[@ranwittlinguitar]

Great thank you so much❤

[@sinamartel7787]

Thank you David Eagleman. This episode reveals to me some of the reasons that early childhood trauma can have lasting effects vs traumatic events occuring later in life. I hope you delve into this area in future episodes. I'm finding conflicting views on just how much ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) can be overcome. Thanks again.

[@berniebarclay2183]

From personal experience it's a lifelong journey. A big factor is any factors of resilience we may have had at the time. Another is how soon we began to unpick all this shit as adults (therapy etc). Another is down to the quality of our relationships as adults; if we are lucky enough to meet the right pe (not just lovers) then we can start to learn healthy social interaction. Steering clear of addictions helps. Myself, I'm 67 and wouldn't say I'm healed, cos short of catastrophic memory loss, my past is always with me. It lives in my nervous system, my gut and deep in my amygdala. But I've had an interesting life, my amazing adult son loves me, I have wonderful friends and am pretty stable overall. It could have gone a lot worse for me so I'm grateful, but not smug.

[@tgrapentine]

I love the passion with which you express yourself in these podcasts.

[@butubuta]

Thank you. Please make videos about autism spectrum, ADD, and sensory integration.

[@THELionQueen90]

Yes what’s you’re thoughts on ASD and AuDHD? How does autism differ from ocd, adhd, depression, ptsd, bipolar etc. ? Or is autism the overall diagnosis with the others being possible symptoms/expressions?

[@albecky123]

Fascinating info. I am in my mid-60s and in the past 2 years or so have changed dramatically in my thought processes, curiosity, and such...I mean, I am MORE curious now than I recall being even as a child because as a child I was too shy to express curiosity. I have been on a path of intentional spiritual growth with a LOT of meditation. I have questioned just about everything I believed all my life...once i considered all those things, I sometimes stuck with the lifetime belief, but, more often, I was surprised in that I didn't truly believe all those things. LOL, I am basically a different person today than I was just 2 years...and for the better, I do believe.

[@jamesgordon5891]

Hello Dr Eagleman. I'm a 71 year old man partially disabled due to a lifetime of drug abuse including cocaine and heroin. I'm one of the lucky ones and stable on the successful recovery which I started when I was 21 years old. I have stayed 99% clean for those 50 years using medicated assisted treatment. If I have a hobby it is learning. I use language learning to help me stay healthy and even now after a very tumultuous and dangerous life my mind is a sponge when it comes to language acquisition. I taught myself Spanish about 5 years ago to level b1 and I'm now learning Hebrew for the second time in my life. As far as Hebrew is concerned there's a magical quality to the nature of my learning. My progress in Hebrew is rapid and I find it easy. I love it's logical nature and highly structured grammar. Do you have other videos about brain plasticity from the angle of using it actively as a means of recovery and enhancing brain health in later years of life?

[@ChalkToday]

This is an eye opener ❤

[@a.bodhichenevey1601]

Personally, the knowledge I have learned from Dr. Eagleman that has been most "life-changing" for me has been his 7 principles of livewiring found in his 2020 book: LIVEWIRED. It helped me understand our human behaviors. The 1st Principle: "Reflect the world: Brains match themselves to their input," and the 7th Principle: "Move toward data: The brain builds an internal model of the world, and adjusts whenever predictions are incorrect," explains our current chaotic social reality, especially when the brain adjusts its predictions to follow correctness not based in factual, verifiable data. Thank you for your lectures.

[@RSokol-oy1rb]

Profound information, thank you!

[@mohamadrezaazadi9038]

thank you Dr Eagleman i was like counting seconds to hear this episode

[@thearamsay9578]

Hi, David. Another interesting episode. Quick question: do you have any research on Helen Keller, who never saw anything or heard anything? I don’t think ANNE Sullivan came into her life until she was nine or 10. So how did she become the person she became? I wonder how she developed the idea of language. I was born blind and I don’t have any idea of seeing. Obviously, I learned to speak and write and everything else, but I am curious about how Helen Keller might’ve developed the idea of of language being unable to either see or hear. And of course, there are other people who are deaf blind. So I’m interested. 23:13

[@THELionQueen90]

I also had this thought about Hellen Keller too!

[@richardjaffe9972]

I wish all I had to do is really want to know something that it I would be able to learn and understand it. Maybe for some. I believe some have a natural gift for learning certain things and will learn it even faster and better if they also are curious about it . 😊

[@preacher3d801]

This is a super interesting topic. What I wonder is: what happens when someone experiences total memory loss? What happens to the brain then? Are some things so firmly programmed that one does them unconsciously?

[@steveuible5915]

Please no background music. It is distracting.

[@sanjanapalakodeti6936]

Life is a conundrum of esoterica

[@teriehefner5148]

What's up with the music in the background

[@THELionQueen90]

✨ ambiance ✨

[@simhgamedev]

I am immune