CNN.com features Wanna Play Campaign and Benefits of Learning to Play Music

CNN's Gary Marcus reported on the benefits of learning to play music in a feature that aligned with NAMM's National Wanna Play Music Week. Marcus wrote that, "Learning a more lasting new skill - be it playing guitar or learning to speak a foreign language - can equally harness the brain’s joy of learning new things, but leave you with something of permanent value, in a way that neither drugs nor video games ever could. It leaves you with a sense of fulfillment, which goes back to what pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow called "self-actualization."

Click the link to read the full article titled, Learn Something New, Your Brain Will Thank You.

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