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Neuroplasticity and tabletop games

2015-11-19 by David Sanchez Leave a Comment

Neuroplasticity is the attribute of the brain that enables us to change it; "it refers to how entire brain structures, and the brain itself, can change from experience" What implications does this have?  Well, below is a clear example of how doing something in one way for a long time reinforces this behavior in such a way, that even knowing you want to do it in another way, you will be unable to: But then again, we can change all that with practice (as Destin does in the above video).  But this does only apply to biomechanical activities, also to mental and behavioral aspects of ourselves.  As you might have noticed, the whole idea behind this blog resides on this principle:  I encourage the repetition of exercises, in the form of tabletop games, to improve in certain skills (mainly management and soft skills). If you want to know more of the possibilities of neuroplasticity, here is an astonishing video of a real case:

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