23 min
We don't learn, despite the struggle - we learn because of it! BPT
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- Fitness
You literally need the struggle and resistance to change your body. And the same rules apply to changing our brain. And so it's a call to action! Look, getting better isn't pretty and it's not only okay for it to be a bit ugly, it's unnecessary! The same tactics that we use to change our body with fitness and working out... those are the same rules that apply to changing our brain.
So many times when we try to learn something, we try it twice, it doesn't work and then we just stop?! That would be the equivalent of doing like one set of curls. And then wake up in the morning like, oh, not bigger. I guess I can't grow. Nobody would do that!!
People in the fitness world notice that, like literally, anyone can make any muscle stronger if they work it out! And… the same rules apply to skills. In today’s BPT Podcast I talked with Trevor Ragan from the “Learner Lab” and Train Ugly. Trever interviewed Michael merzenich. He's known as the father of neuro plasticity, which is like, the building blocks for all skill and development. Neuroplasticity shows how when we learn something, we're actually building new connections in our brain. And this guy has been studying the brain since the late 60s, early 70s. And during the conversation, one of the most profound things he said, like, with 100% certainty, absolutely anyone can get better at virtually anything!
We know it can bring up a little fear and anxiety to create change… We address that too! Researchers have a technique they call Reappraising fear.
Look into the research of fear, anxiety, stress, one of the worst possible things to do with those emotions is to try to suppress them. Yet 91% of people think that that's the best thing to do with them. We assume that something's wrong, that we're not ready, that we're not prepared that this isn't the right thing to do. But the truth is like, that's literally just a part of our brain. It's called our amygdala. And that's its response to anything that takes us out of our comfort zone. And so this tactic of reappraising fear is to help people understand feeling uncomfortable, doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. And it doesn't mean you can't do this. It means you're human. Like literally the human response to anything that stretches us out of our comfort zone is discomfort. And so like that seems simple, but it's like a superpower skill and tool that we can use to help us become better learners. Help us make bigger changes!
The essence of a growth mindset is what I believe - I can grow. That's an essential fuel source to making a change the opposite of a fixed mindset that like, I can't learn that I can't do that. If I'm operating from those limiting beliefs, I'm probably not going to take a sustained action that goes for learning... that goes for working out. Now, the interesting thing, and the topic that we're digging into now is how actually the beliefs of the person in charge the beliefs of the leader can also become like self fulfilling, just like the beliefs of the individual. So Trevor interviewed Robert Rosenthal, he's in his 90s he's still a professor in California and he researches what they call the Pygmalion effect. And the Pygmalion effect basically shows how the Applications of the person in charge could become self-fulfilling prophecies. What the hell does that mean???
Check out today’s podcast with Trevor Ragan and find out!
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phil-t9/message
You literally need the struggle and resistance to change your body. And the same rules apply to changing our brain. And so it's a call to action! Look, getting better isn't pretty and it's not only okay for it to be a bit ugly, it's unnecessary! The same tactics that we use to change our body with fitness and working out... those are the same rules that apply to changing our brain.
So many times when we try to learn something, we try it twice, it doesn't work and then we just stop?! That would be the equivalent of doing like one set of curls. And then wake up in the morning like, oh, not bigger. I guess I can't grow. Nobody would do that!!
People in the fitness world notice that, like literally, anyone can make any muscle stronger if they work it out! And… the same rules apply to skills. In today’s BPT Podcast I talked with Trevor Ragan from the “Learner Lab” and Train Ugly. Trever interviewed Michael merzenich. He's known as the father of neuro plasticity, which is like, the building blocks for all skill and development. Neuroplasticity shows how when we learn something, we're actually building new connections in our brain. And this guy has been studying the brain since the late 60s, early 70s. And during the conversation, one of the most profound things he said, like, with 100% certainty, absolutely anyone can get better at virtually anything!
We know it can bring up a little fear and anxiety to create change… We address that too! Researchers have a technique they call Reappraising fear.
Look into the research of fear, anxiety, stress, one of the worst possible things to do with those emotions is to try to suppress them. Yet 91% of people think that that's the best thing to do with them. We assume that something's wrong, that we're not ready, that we're not prepared that this isn't the right thing to do. But the truth is like, that's literally just a part of our brain. It's called our amygdala. And that's its response to anything that takes us out of our comfort zone. And so this tactic of reappraising fear is to help people understand feeling uncomfortable, doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. And it doesn't mean you can't do this. It means you're human. Like literally the human response to anything that stretches us out of our comfort zone is discomfort. And so like that seems simple, but it's like a superpower skill and tool that we can use to help us become better learners. Help us make bigger changes!
The essence of a growth mindset is what I believe - I can grow. That's an essential fuel source to making a change the opposite of a fixed mindset that like, I can't learn that I can't do that. If I'm operating from those limiting beliefs, I'm probably not going to take a sustained action that goes for learning... that goes for working out. Now, the interesting thing, and the topic that we're digging into now is how actually the beliefs of the person in charge the beliefs of the leader can also become like self fulfilling, just like the beliefs of the individual. So Trevor interviewed Robert Rosenthal, he's in his 90s he's still a professor in California and he researches what they call the Pygmalion effect. And the Pygmalion effect basically shows how the Applications of the person in charge could become self-fulfilling prophecies. What the hell does that mean???
Check out today’s podcast with Trevor Ragan and find out!
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phil-t9/message
23 min