it is now widely believed that our brain doesn't…
Page 23 it is now widely believed that our brain doesn't just get rewired when life-changing events occur; it happens second by second, day and night, and response to everything going on around us. Everyday we create enormous sets of new maps to change the chemical and physical connections in our brain .
— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Quiet leadership by David Rock
In the book
It is plastic — it modifies, changes, and adapts its very structure and function throughout your whole life in response to what you do. It does not only rewire when some great event strikes; it rewires second by second, day and night. Conscious life of any kind, William James saw, has this same quality — a structure pliable enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once: built to bend, not break. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)