This is Ruining Your Brain

your brain doesn’t care how talented you are. neuroimaging studies on elite martial artists show structural changes in the brain: more white matter, enhanced connectivity in the regions that control movement, timing, and focus. and researchers consistently find them in athletes with long-term, consistent training. fitts and posner mapped how skill actually gets built: from thinking through every move, to flow, to pure reflex. anders ericsson called the mechanism purposeful repetition with feedba