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Episode: 444

#1 Neuroscientist: After Listening to This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same

with Dr. Lara Boyd

Today, you are getting a step-by-step guide on how to change your brain.

Joining Mel is neuroscientist Dr. Lara Boyd, a professor at the University of British Columbia who directs the Brain Behaviour Lab there. 

This #1 neuroscientist will teach you how to rewire your brain at any age. 

Her message is incredibly hopeful:

You are never too old, too late, or too set in your ways to change who you are and what you’re capable of.

But becoming who you want to be doesn’t happen by accident.

Dr. Boyd reveals what really reshapes your brain, what happens when you challenge yourself to do hard things, and how to make what you practice stick.

Listen on:

You can build the brain you want to have.

Dr. Lara Boyd

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Key takeaways

  1. Your brain keeps changing throughout your life, and the single largest driver of that change is the experience you choose to engage in and pay attention to. 

  2. If something is too easy, your brain has no reason to change; you want to work where you are sometimes failing, often succeeding, and struggling with the activity. 

  3. When you stop engaging in life, you can lose function and neuroplastic capacity, but small steps toward different experiences can push your brain back in a positive direction.

  4. You need sleep to turn short-term memories into lasting learning, because sleep helps transform chemical changes from practice into structural changes in your brain. 

  5. Exercise makes your brain more neuroplastic, and pairing intense exercise with practice can help you improve overnight as your brain consolidates what you learned.

Guests Appearing in this Episode

Dr. Lara Boyd

Dr. Lara Boyd is a world-renowned neuroscientist, professor, and director of the Brain Behaviour Lab at the University of British Columbia, specializing in neuroplasticity and learning.

 

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