Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

There's an old myth that our brains are pretty static once we get above a certain age especially.

I mean, I guess it goes with a, you can't teach old dogs new tricks,

but the neuroscience research shows that that's just not true. Like, you can, brains can change at any

time. If you have someone practice juggling for six weeks, the areas of their brain that control

motion will grow more connections, right? It's just like anything else. We know that if you practice

meditation, how your brain talks to areas talk to each other and grow more connections.

You can, your brain is pretty plastic and I think you can learn these things.

There's always situations maybe where I'm in a meeting where I know someone doesn't agree with me

and I have to get them sort of to

see my point of view. And I find that I have to calm myself down. Like I want to just talk.

But I have to make myself listen. And when I'm feeling stressed, I want to talk. Like I want to just

be in control of the situation. And I find myself really having to guide myself to like

step back and hear what they say. Because oftentimes when we're stressed, we don't listen, right?

And this is this is true in the medical profession. Doctors have been shown to not listen to

each other about communicating information. And it's not even that you don't listen. You don't even

know you haven't listened and a great

example that has happened to all of us like have you ever been at a party or someone introduces

themselves to you and you realize right after you don't remember their name like right after and

the research shows that it's not because you forgot it it's that you probably weren't even listening

when they said it like we never got it in because we are so are thinking about ourselves. We were focused on ourselves or some other,

how they were looking at us and we just weren't paying attention. People aren't going to remember

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