Trick Theory

Your brain is designed to forget.

The forgetting curve shows that without reinforcement,
new information fades rapidly, sometimes within hours or days.

That’s not a flaw.
It’s efficiency.

Your brain assumes:
“If this isn’t used again, it’s probably not important.”

But here’s the key part 👇

This happens naturally
unless you use spaced repetition.

Each time you revisit a skill or idea
(especially after a day or so)…

you interrupt the forgetting process
and strengthen the neural connection instead.

Consistency doesn’t just help you remember.
It tells your brain:

“This matters. Keep this.”

Small reps.
Repeated over time.
Beat cramming every time.

That’s how skills stick 🧠

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One of the most useful lessons I've ever learned:
Train skills at your optimal challenge point.

Too Easy - Warm up.
Too Hard - You work hard spinning your wheels.
Just Right - Your nervous system adapts fast.

This is where skills become automatic.

You can learn any skill you set your mind too.

Be the Hero of Your Story. ;)

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Mistakes = Smarter

Struggling and making errors helps your brain form stronger connections, leading to deeper, more effective learning than always getting it right.

We need errors to transform into our most capable selves.

- Be The Hero of Your Story.

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Some people think becoming super “skilled” is about talent.

If you consistently train the same brain regions...
whether it's focus, coordination, memory, balance, or movement something awesome happens:

🔹 BDNF (your brain’s “growth fertilizer”) starts flooding that area
🔹 Neurons build new connections more easily
🔹 The whole circuit becomes 2–3× more ready to learn

This is why the second skill you learn is almost always faster than the first, and so on.

Those regions of your brain are primed for more with use. so don't give up when your brand new to something!



Will you be awesome at first...

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Whenever you practice something new.

● Butterfly Twist like Captain America (I love this skill lol).
● Focusing longer.
● Climb onto a roof for the first time hanging Christmas lights praying you don't slip and fall... no reason.


The skill starts in the upper "cortical" parts of your brain.
Once you practice enough it gets off-loaded and goes "sub cortical"

This where an ability becomes automatic, no longer taking cognitive effort.

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Well this explains my childhood...

Had speech impediments.
Told myself I could become someone who learns to be confident, flexible, agile... all of it.
Now I teach all of that for a living to kids, teens and adults along with 'Batman" like movement skills used at stunt facilities in L.A.

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Batman’s face barely changes and why that works.

A stable mood signals strong prefrontal-cortex control over your emotional brain, which people read as confidence and safety.

When your expression doesn’t spike all over the place, everyone else’s nervous system can calm down as well.

Be the most comfortable or slow moving person in the room.

P.S. (It's Something I know I've got to focus on).

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To learn a new physical skill your brain creates a "motor schema".
Basically a blueprint of how to do the skill.
That blueprint can then be used to learn other similar skills faster.

This is why the first time you learn something it feels hard, but everything else like it gets much easier.
And looks more impressive to others.

2 months ago | [YT] | 74

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Here’s one mistake I made that slows down how fast you learn new skills.
A while back, I was training two brand new skills at the same time.

A Flicker and a Blossom.
(Otherwise a horizontal side flip and a horizontal front flip)

Both look awesome… and both were accidentally fighting each other for space in my nervous system!

This is called cognitive interference.

When two skills share a lot of overlap, (and these guys have A LOT) they compete for the same synapses.

So during sleep, your brain tries to strengthen both, but ends up sort of blending the two together a bit. I think of mixing two different paints together before one dries...

If you want to train two awesome but similar skills, best to let one paint dry via sleep, and then do the other tomorrow if you feel like it.

Rather than being like me and training skills back to back for 2 months wondering why your progress has slowed!

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As my neuroanatomy professor said... "Muscles are dumb".
It's our brain.
It's areas like the motor cortex that allow us to learn snazzy new skills.

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