Does AI Ever Let You Fail?
What happens to the brain when struggle goes away.
In her latest Substack essay, Pamela Cantor, M.D. asks: what happens to the brain when struggle goes away? Drawing on her own experience in medical school, Roger Federer's surprisingly vulnerable commencement address at Dartmouth, and the neuroscience of myelin, dopamine, and BDNF, Dr. Cantor makes the case that effortful, sustained practice is the mechanism by which the brain physically builds itself:
"What you practice, you build. What you offload, you lose."
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