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Why You’re Always In Such a Hurry & What Listening to Music Does to You

Something You Should Know

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The Importance of Playing Music

When you practice an instrument, especially when you're first learning, you're driving a lot of cellular processes that are actually structurally changing your brain. Professional musicians tend to have more neural connections called synapses. You lose myelin which insulates or apps wiry parts of nerve cells and increases the speed at which impulses travel through those wires. I always tell people if you have myelin on a cell, it's like driving on the autobahn in Germany at midnight where there's no speed limit but nobody's going to stop you. It can be set in some ways early in life, but it's very malleable. We kind of like different music and different parts of our

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