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What does this unit teach us and
mean to what we say and do?
WE CAN BUILD OUR BRAINS AND GET CHANGE TAKES TIME
BETTER AT THINGS – AT ANY AGE!
1. If you would like to build one of your Executive Function
1. Brains can build and neural circuitry
be re-shaped at any age. skills, it is possible!
2. If you practise and repeat something, 2. It will need patience though. Change takes time and lots of
it will become easier to do. practice.
3. This is true whether it is a helpful or 3. You will need to practise it each day for a few minutes for
an unhelpful habit. at least a month to see a difference. It takes perseverance!
Tracking your progress and celebrating every completed
4. This means that unhelpful habits can week of practice will give you the burst of dopamine to
become very strong too. keep going.
5. It also means that it IS possible to 4. If you find something difficult, like being flexible, focusing
change even strong unhelpful habits attention or regulating big feelings, they do not have to
into more helpful ones – but it will stay the same; they do not have to have a lifetime of
take time. ‘behaviour management problems’, as they often assume.
