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Become a Great Dad Plasticity and Learning

20 Feb 2017 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Doug Noll challenges the common belief that learning ability declines sharply with age by citing his own experience of taking up jazz violin five years ago and making notable progress despite the instrument’s difficulty. He argues that adult brain plasticity allows the acquisition of new, complex skills when the right learning approach is applied. Leveraging his background as a peacemaker and mediator, Noll asserts that developing emotional competency with one’s children is a powerful yet counter‑intuitive skill that cannot be mastered in isolation. To address this, he has created a concise curriculum—promoted as “How to Become a Great Dad in 90 Seconds”—that delivers four hours of instruction followed by roughly two weeks of practice. The program claims to teach parents how to deeply connect emotionally with their children, calm them effectively regardless of anger, and listen in a way children have never experienced before. Noll emphasizes that the practice reinforces itself, allowing the brain to absorb the skills rapidly, and invites interested viewers to explore the curriculum.

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Hi, I'm Doug Noll, and I want to talk about brain plasticity and learning. A lot of people say that as you get older, it becomes much harder to learn things, but that's just not true. Take me, for example. 5 years ago, I took up jazz violin, and although I'm not in Carnegie Hall, I am really pleased with the progress that I've made learning this very difficult form of music on a very difficult instrument. The point being is that you can learn new skills too. And one of the things that I've learned over the years as a peacemaker and mediator is that the ability to develop emotional competency with your children is one of the most powerful skills you can develop. But it's not something that you can learn on your own. It's counterintuitive. So I've developed a curriculum that allows you in 4 hours to learn how to deeply connect with your children at an emotional level, to calm them down no matter how angry they are, to listen to them in ways they've never been heard before, and to really be effective as a great dad. It takes 4 hours of learning and about 2 weeks of practice, and you will find that the practice reinforces itself and that your brain will suck this up like a sponge because it is so powerful. So if this sounds like something that's interesting to you, check it out. How to Become a Great Dad in 90 Seconds.