Dallas Bragg explains that your brain generates new neurons in the hippocampus throughout life, but they die within seven days if unused. Breaking routine and learning new things activates these cells and builds new neural pathways, so small daily changes can reshape your life.
Y'all, this has been misunderstood for decades—that we have a finite number of brain cells and that when we lose them, they're gone forever. This is not true. New science shows us that the hippocampus in the brain creates new brain cells every single day until we take our last breath. That means we have new brain cells to create new neural pathways every single day. And science also shows that if these brain cells aren't utilized within seven days, they die. This is why I say if you keep. If you keep doing what you've always done, you keep getting what you've always got. The way to break free from Tina is to begin every single day doing something different, even as small as getting out of your bed on a different side. Begin changing your routine— reading, learning, developing new habits— to utilize these new brain cells before they die. You are wasting your opportunity to not only build new pathways but build a new life.
