Assertion: you can skip any chapter on neuroplasticity in any self-help book. Neuroplasticity is just a fancy way of saying 'you can learn new things', it is nearly never useful.
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As a concept, neuroplasticity is too low level to matter. Your brain adapts to your learning: so what? What you *want* is an understanding of your mind's cognitive systems and how they work together.
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For instance, information learnt verbally and visually is processed by different subsystems in the brain, and this enhances recall when learning occurs through both systems in parallel. This is useful information: you can operationalise it by redesigning your study materials.
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My theory is that self-help books that talk about neuroplasticity are trying to a) pad the page count, and b) attempting to insert a dozen pages of interesting scientific research, in order to boost believability of their overall book.
Interesting? Yes. Useful? No.
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Sometimes you need to hear it though! It’s like repeating a mantra to yourself, except here it’s the universe hammering you with it. 😊