In this episode, we talk about habit formation and what's actually going on in the brain when we learn something new.

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Check out the link in the description and let's get into the show. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes where I share simple research-backed strategies you can use to get more out of your life. My name is

Greg Klunis and we've all tried to break a habit we don't necessarily like.

Maybe it's something small like snort in when we laugh or maybe

something that has a real effect on our lives like check in email first thing in the

morning. The point is that we've all developed habits that we would like to get rid of. But it's not easy. Most people fail at breaking habits and there's a very specific reason for that. It's called Mylan. Mylan is a mixture of proteins and

phospholiffids forming a whitish insulating sheath around nerve fibers.

It increases the speed at which impulses are conducted.

Now you can think of Mylan as something similar to the insulation you see on any electrical

cord.

Its job is to contain electrical signals within the nerve fibers, allowing them to move faster to their destination and travel over longer distances.

So in other words, Mylan allows different parts of our brains to communicate with each other easier, which is important because, you know, we can do cool stuff that seems simple on the surface, but actually require input from multiple different regions of the brain to coordinate.

Okay, so what does Mylan have to do with bad habits?

Well, as I mentioned, Mylan increases the speed of communication

between different areas of the brain. This means that you can make

those actions or do that thing much faster than you could without the

insulation. The problem is that every time you take an action you are reinforcing the myelin

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