“Male canaries learn a new song every year,” observes Moheb Costandi in his book Neuroplasticity, ”in order to serenade potential mates, and learning and production of their songs are controlled by two brain nuclei.”
This weekend a family member joyfully played a song she had leaned on the banjo, an instrument she had decided to learn how to play only last week.
Learning a new instrument, skill, or language, studies show changes our brain in positive ways. New neural pathways are created and brain function increases.
A canary chooses to do this every year with two brain nuclei. A human brain has 18. What new “song” could you begin learning, creating, and by so doing bring surprise and joy into your life?
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