"We are born with over one hundred billion brain cells. The connectors are called synapses and by the time a child has reached the age of three it has formed about a thousand trillion of them. But then as we become adults, we lose over half of them. And the brain becomes rigid or hardwired. All of their potential brain power gets reduced, It narrows down, it specializes. But your children are different..."
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