Your brain has two wide-open windows for forming core beliefs: birth to age 7, when you absorb ideas about money and safety, and ages 16 to 24, when you're receptive to new thinking about relationships and identity. After that, beliefs harden and change gets harder.
Your nervous system makes up your core operating system. So if you think of the human being and our nervous system, you have two major windows of peak neuroplasticity: 0 to 7, which is your most open season of life, and that's where the core blueprints are laid, your views about money, your sense of safety, your sense of belonging in the world, your attachment. But 16 to 24, you have another window where change is happening rapidly and you're more open than normal. And in that window, uh, you get identities or upgrades around, or beliefs around sex, sexuality, uh, the opposite sex, your standing in the world. But things get a little more firmly entrenched as we continue along into our 30s and 40s and 50s and beyond.
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