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 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 the 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 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 thinking about ourselves,

we were focused on ourselves,

or some other, how they were looking at us,

and we just weren't paying attention.

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