Bookfreak 146: Your Self-Rewiring Brain

Key Ideas from David Eagleman's "Livewired" on Neural Plasticity and Adaptation

In Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, by David Eagleman makes the case that our brains and our identities are not fixed, but are continually shaped by the world around us. He argues that the brain is not a static, hardwired organ, but rather a dynamic, flexible system that constantly rewires itself based on experience. The brain ada…