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Behaviors Non-Sleep Deep Rest
“There’s a study published last year that's particularly relevant here that I want to share... that showed that 20 minutes of deep rest, this is not deep sleep, but essentially doing something very hard and very intense, and then taking 20 minutes afterward, immediately afterwards to deliberately turn off the deliberate focused thinking and engagement actually accelerated neuroplasticity.”
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▶ 46:31 Non-Sleep Deep Rest Behaviors “There’s a study published last year that's particularly relevant here that I want to share... that showed that 20 minutes of deep rest, this is not deep sleep, but essentially doing something very hard and very intense, and then taking 20 minutes afterward, immediately afterwards to deliberately turn off the deliberate focused thinking and engagement actually accelerated neuroplasticity.” ▷ 46:57 Use a Repeated Tone Cue During Learning and Replay It During Deep Sleep Behaviors “There's another study that's just incredible. And we're going to go into this in a future episode of the podcast, not too long from now, that showed that if people are learning a particular thing, that if people are learning a particular skill, it could be a language skill or a motor skill, and they hear a tone just playing in the background, the tone is playing periodically through the background, like just a bell.” ▷ 48:25 Sleep Behaviors “So sleep is key. Also key are periods of non-sleep deep rest, where we're turning off our analysis of duration, path, and outcome, in particular for the thing that we were just trying to learn.” ▷ 57:26 Use 90-Minute Focus Bouts Behaviors “It would be perfectly good, however, to engage in a focus bout of learning each day. And now we know how long that focus bout of learning should be. It should be at least one 90 minute cycle.” ▷ 58:04 Track Daily Rhythms to Schedule Learning at Your Best Time of Day Behaviors “For instance, some people are very good learners early in the day and not so good in the afternoon. So you can start to explore this process... by simply paying attention.”