Donald O. Hebb

How do you begin to just help people kind of calm down that rehearsing and that reenactment? rumination stuff that often just gets a hold of them you know that i think in in neuroscience or interpersonal neuroscience that this this it's like the brain begins to develop writing and more patterns things that quote wire together fire together type thing you know that speak to some of that and how you approach people who they're they're they're in a battle

right Well, there's this thing called Hebb's Law we talk about all the time, neuroplasticity, this idea that Donald Hebb gave us of neurons that fire together, wire together.

And that happens in response to the brain making things more automatic over time the more we think about them.

And that's God's design for it.

As I say, you don't use the round earth theory to build runways in Holland.

You mentioned as well your former colleague in McGill, Donald Hebb, and he explained it beautifully.

A good theory is one that holds together long enough to get you to a better theory.

And the reason I share that is the importance of learning as a leader cannot be measured at all.

There's an idea in neuroscience often summarized with the phrase you may have heard, neurons that fire together, wire together.

The shorthand comes from the work of psychologist Donald Hebb.

The science underneath learning is more complicated than that phrase, but it's a useful way of thinking about repeated activation.

When patterns are repeatedly activated, the nervous system can become more efficient at producing them.

Anything that's fired and wired.

Donald Hebb was a researcher, a doctor in 1948, I believe, and it's called Hebb's Law.

Neurons that fire together, wire together.

So you have a clear thought and a strong emotion, and those fire and wire together.

expression of gratitude on a daily basis.

But I think that, you know, it's been said by a Dr. Donald Hebb in the late 1940s, a Canadian neuroscience researcher, that neurons that fire together wire together.

And that is the more you do something, the more indelible those connections become in your brain.

And, you know, the Dalai Lama once said that if you want others to be happy, treat them with compassion.

It possesses an extraordinary capacity to continuously adapt down to the microscopic cellular level in direct response to environmental stimuli.

The governing principle of this adaptation is Hebb's rule, formulated by the neuropsychologist Donald Hebb.

The foundational mechanism is simply this, neurons that fire together, wire together.

Let us examine the mechanics of that wiring.

No, every day we need to come before the Lord and get in the word and get in prayer.

And when we walk in the spirit daily, it becomes a part of our transformation, Hebb's Law.

was introduced by Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb in his 1949 book, The Organization of Behavior.

And it states this, it states that neurons that fire together, wire together.

It's a principle of neuroscience that it means this, repeated thoughts strengthen neural pathways.

In other words, if you go out to a park and you walk around in a circle over and over and over again, you start to bear a path there, right? The next time you go to that park, you're naturally going to walk on that same path.

So the same is true about Hebb's law.

It's contending this concept that what you focus on, what you do faithfully, what you do continually, it literally rewires your brain.

He takes real things that were studied and mixes up the information or misrepresents it.

One of the things he mentions is that his version of MK often, or at least his understanding of it, incorrect as it was, was that it was a continuation of a paranormal study conducted by Donald Hebb, who conducted sensory deprivation studies in the early '50s preceding MKUltra.

Um, his studies were funded by the CIA and I think the Canadian Defense Research Board.

Um, the CIA used the Canadian organization as a conduit to get funds to him.