LEARN NEW SKILLS THROUGHOUT LIFE AND BUILD ON AND INCREASE YOUR ASSETS
Imagine you learn a new skill, how to dance the tango for example – what happens? What is now thought is not that new, additional, nerve cells are produced like a microcomputer to help you carry out some step or some part of a step. What happens is that the existing neurons form new connections to other neurons. They create new networks. In this way, the brain acts more like an ant colony than a computer. When ants face a new challenge, they communicate with one another until a solution emerges. The Queen Ant does not tell them what to do. That is not her job. Her job is simply to lay eggs. What is more once the ant colony has solved a particular problem they know how to solve it more quickly the next time it comes around.
Imagine you learn a new skill, how to dance the tango for example – what happens? What is now thought is not that new, additional, nerve cells are produced like a microcomputer to help you carry out some step or some part of a step. What happens is that the existing neurons form new connections to other neurons. They create new networks. In this way, the brain acts more like an ant colony than a computer. When ants face a new challenge, they communicate with one another until a solution emerges. The Queen Ant does not tell them what to do. That is not her job. Her job is simply to lay eggs. What is more once the ant colony has solved a particular problem they know how to solve it more quickly the next time it comes around.