Imagine everyone on the planet simultaneously getting in contact with 150,000 other people. This is what is actually happening with each of the neurons in the brain of a young child. Scientists now know that by the age of three there are up to fifteen thousand connections for each of the one hundred billion neurons in our brain. Not surprisingly this is far too much information to cope with, so we have developed a way of making sense of it all. Our own unique sense of it! During the following ten years our brain refines what it believes is important and begins focusing on particular connections more than others. Continue reading
