When I was a kid I heard people talking about how kids learn better than adults.
So I realized that the “way a kid’s brain works” is probably correlated with “the way it feels to be conscious as a kid” so I used my autistic super-memory to save a snapshot of the feeling of consciousness itself.
Then I instructed my brain to keep track of that, and never lose it.
Now I’m in my 40s, and I can still learn like a little kid.
When I was a kid I heard people talking about how kids learn better than adults.
So I realized that the “way a kid’s brain works” is probably correlated with “the way it feels to be conscious as a kid” so I used my autistic super-memory to save a snapshot of the feeling of consciousness itself.
Then I instructed my brain to keep track of that, and never lose it.
Now I’m in my 40s, and I can still learn like a little kid.
Brain plasticity is absolutely a thing, and there are exercises you can do to maintain and even regain some of your brain plasticity.