Repetition and habits

To make sense of the world, our brain makes neural pathways from its past experience. These pathways allow us to become efficient and not doubt every move we make.

However, when we need to update our expectations to a new reality, our brain has to create new pathways....

• repeat what you're trying to retain, but space this repetition out -> e.g. practice a new voc. word/ a problem solving technique over several days
• Research: if you repeat sth 20times in one evening, you won’t remember nearly as well as if you practice it 20x ...

Habits are a dopamine-driven feedback loop. Every behavior that is highly habit-forming from most basic habitual behaviors like eating food, drinking water, having sex to taking drugs, playing video games, browsing social media.

• The habit formation is depend on the frequency of the ac...