What are we talking about tonight? So when we're learning to do something new, at first, as I'm sure you're aware by now,

we're generally pretty awkward whenever we do something new, whether it's playing an instrument or drawing or photography or a new application on a computer using a new kind of mouse for the computer.

Anything that is new, at first we're generally pretty awkward at and that's because the movements are being guided by your frontal lobe, which is the part of your brain that of course makes decisions and merits life,

and is for impulse control.

It's really important that we have frontal lobes.

It's what actually provides us with a great survival advantage.

Both emotionally the frontal lobe and the right side and left side where most of the language is not all but a lot of the

language is provided. This gives us wonderful opportunities to connect and

social,

to be social beings.

But the Rfuelove is not particularly good

at guiding fluid movement.

In fact, it's particularly bad. Habits that are completely guided by the

frontal lobe are very awkward. In fact, if you want to really screw with someone before they do something that they're very good at.

For instance, suppose you're playing a game of ping pong with someone or bowling or all the things that I don't really do because I'm a neurotic Jew from the

upper west side but if I did do them and I wanted to screw with the people I was

competing with I would ask them to talk me through their wonderful ping-pong

back end or their wonderful bowling technique because in making them narrated for me I would be switching the guidance of those

movements back from the basal ganglia where it's smooth to the frontal lobe where

they would become very very awkward at what they do.

Once you engrain a habit, a routine, a behavior, it moves from the frontal lobe to

basal ganglia, which is roughly in the... from the area and it's not conscious.

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