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Nigel Denning

Sep 9, 2026

10:35
Can you talk about why people s- sometimes return to the familiar patterns after that period?
10:43
Um, well, there, there, there's, there's lots of d- ways of describing it, but, but one, one I guess, um, metaphor from biological kind of processes, something called the default mode network.
10:55
You know, the, the brain's sort of orientation to return to how it's learned to survive in the world.
11:02
And so in regression to the mean, you know, you, you, you go back to, you know, where, where the, the most common patterns are.
11:10
So, you know, when you're first coming out of a session, that, that's, that's the point of neuroplasticity.
11:16
You know, new, new pathways have been forged, new pathways have been formed.
11:20
But it's a little bit like anything, you know.

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