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Your brain rewiring itself, proof you're never fully stuck being who you were yesterday.

means The brain's lifelong ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections in response to learning, experience, or injury.

from Built from 'neuro-' (Greek 'neuron,' meaning nerve or sinew) and 'plasticity,' from Greek 'plastikos' — 'able to be molded,' the same root that gives us 'plastic.' For most of the 20th century scientists believed the adult brain was fixed, its wiring set in childhood. Research from the 1960s onward overturned that view, showing neurons and their connections keep reshaping themselves throughout life — and the term 'neuroplasticity' spread as that evidence took hold.

peak window
strongest in childhood, never fully shuts off
driver
repetition and attention rewire connections, not willpower alone
london cabbies
grew larger hippocampi memorizing city streets
double edge
same mechanism builds habits and addictions
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