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As conventional wisdom had us to believe — as many people still believe today.
傳統的認識讓我們相信這種說法——今天仍有很多人相信這種說法
No, neurones are developed and grow, emerge throughout our lives.
不，神經元是發展生長的，在人生過程中不斷出現
The brain, it turns out, in many ways is like muscle: use it and you don't lose it. Use it and you generate, you build the muscle up.
原來大腦在很多方面很像一塊肌肉：使用它就不會失去它，使用它能讓它再生，讓肌肉更發達
And the question is how do we use it so that it becomes an assistant in a way, help toward becoming happier.
問題是要如何使用它，才能讓它幫助我們變得更加快樂
So let's look at what the brain actually look like. What it looks like is that there are millions of channels inside,
我們來看看大腦到底是什么樣子的。大腦里有數以百萬計的通道
neural pathways, connections between different neurones in brain that look something like this. As you can see, some are very thin, are relatively new.
神經通道，不同神經元在大腦里的連接，看上去就像這樣。你們能看到有些很薄，是新生的
some are much thicker, much more established.
有些更厚，更健全
And the way it works in many ways is like in nature.
它作用的方式很像自然界
You have large rivers, large channels. And you have tiny rivers and tiny channels.
即有大河，寬敞的渠道，也有小河，狹窄的渠道
And what happens is that every time a connection is made between neurones — in other words, your thought pattern follows a certain path.
原理是這樣的每次神經元之間發生聯系，換言之，你的思維模式有特定的路徑運作
That path grows. Just like a river — every time the water passes there, it gets this much, this much wider.
那個路徑會成長。像河流一樣，每次有水流過，河流都會變得寬一些
And when there is no water there, there is no work being done in the neurone, metaphorically speaking, it shrinks a little bit.
沒有水的時候，神經元不工作時，打個比方，它會萎縮一點
