After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver

Everyone has to do it. The behaviors we apply in our daily lives are important. Each one of them changes

your

brain

. I think we need to keep in mind not to personalize medicine, but to diagnose that learning and the uniqueness of

your

brain

will

affect you as a student and also as a teacher. This idea helps us understand why some children can thrive in traditional educational settings and others cannot, why some of us can learn languages ​​easily and yet some can play any sport and excel. So when you leave

this

room today, your brain

will

not be the

same

as it was in the morning when you walked in.

I think

this

is absolutely wonderful. But each of you will change your brain differently. Understanding these differences, these individual forms, this diversity and variability will allow great advances in neuroscience: they will allow us to develop new and more effective interventions, and they will allow overlaps between students and teachers, patients and interventions. And this does not apply to post-stroke recovery, it applies to all of us, as parents, as teachers, as principals, and also because you are at TEDx today, as lifelong educators. Study how and what you want to learn best. Repeat these behaviors that are healthier for your brain, and break those behaviors and habits that are harmful. the exercise.

Learning is doing the work that your brain requires. Therefore, the best strategies will vary between individuals. You know, it will vary between individuals. So, for you learning music may be very easy, but learning to skate is much more difficult. I hope you leave today with a new appreciation for how wonderful your brains are. You and your flexible mind are constantly being reconfigured by the world around you. Understand that everything you do, everything you experience, and everything you experience changes your brain. This could be for the better, but it could also be for the worse. So when you leave today, go out and grow the brain you want.

Thank you so much. (applause)