Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Veness and today I am so excited because we're celebrating our

200th episode and five years of the show

Honestly, I could kind of cry sitting on this chair saying

This I'm just I'm so honored and so proud that you all are listening and that getting curious is touching your lives and

Just thank you so much for your support and for listening

I am so grateful to each and every one of you

Every guest every listener our producers our team. Thank you so much everyone. I love you so much

We have interviewed so many amazing guests

We've learned so many invaluable lessons and gotten way too good at making Taco Bell references for them to not be our

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We wanted to kick off today's episode with an act of care

Here's some of our favorite conversations about how to be our best selves without becoming what our friend Ashley Marie Preston calls a self-carein

We have Dr. Doreen Dodge and McGee you are a doctor. You were an academic. You are a researcher

Andrew and author and you're a speaker

So is it really true when people say that like our psyches are developed between the ages of like zero and seven?

You know, it's so interesting. Yes, that was the research when I was in graduate school 8,000 years ago

But now we know at litter at least with the brain at least neurologically

We know that new synapses new neural wiring can happen all the way through age 80

Oh, I know isn't that great news and neuroplasticity just means that even if we've created some really tricky habits

We can uncreate the neural tendency to engage them. Okay, so neural plasticity is

Neural plasticity means that the brain can

Change its wiring so for instance when we interact a lot with screens

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