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Brain Rules
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School | John Medina
Presents twelve scientifically proven facts about how the human brain works and explains how to apply each fact to get the most out of one's brain on a daily basis, discussing such concepts as attention, memory, and sleep.
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zahra7

You give up on stability. You don‘t try to beat back the changes. You begin not to care about consistency within a given habitat, because such consistency isn‘t an option. You adapt to variation itself.

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zahra7

Civilization, while giving us such seemingly forward advances as modern medicine and spatulas, also has had a nasty side effect. It gave us more opportunities to sit on our butts. Whether learning or working, we gradually quit exercising the way our ancestors did. The result is like a traffic wreck.

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zahra7

Our fancy brains developed not while we were lounging around but while we were working out.

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kspenmoll
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#brainpower #fuelbeforeschool #longdistancelearning #summerschool
About to enter google classroom for our summer session. Music teacher is having us make guitars out of tissue boxes. What fun to be had!!!
My favorite marmalade-bitter orange.

LeahBergen I love this marmalade, too 4y
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nicpears
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Most of the information I had found before reading this book was anecdotal or based on old wive's tales. This book, which has information based on scientific studies, was extremely interesting and I will be coming back to sections of this book for years to come.

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Very informative book. Useful insights on raising a happy and stable child. Very good tips from a father and scientist whose passion shows throughout the book. I recommend.

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Liking this so far.

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GoneFishing

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can‘t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

Myhusbandhatesreading Hmmmm....really? That's interesting actually. 7y
julesG It's true! 7y
CouronneDhiver I told my boss this just the other day! 7y
Cathythoughts Interesting 🤔 7y
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GoneFishing

When the brain is fully working, it uses more energy per unit of tissue weight than a fully exercising quadricep.

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GoneFishing

The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

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GoneFishing

Stress hormones can do some truly nasty things to your brain if boatloads of the stuff are given free access to your central nervous system.

julesG No kidding there! 7y
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GoneFishing

One of the greatest predictors of performance in school turns out to be the emotional stability of the home.

Myhusbandhatesreading Now I can agree on this one. 7y
Cathythoughts Makes so much sense, as a general rule 👍 7y
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GoneFishing

Emotionally charged events are better remembered—for longer, and with more accuracy—than neutral events.

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GoneFishing

Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

DrexEdit After today at work I can personally say this is true. 7y
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GoneFishing

One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle.

Cathythoughts This is so very logical & true. The body is meant to move 👍 7y
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GoneFishing

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

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Listened to this on audio. It was ok for me. I didn't hate it but I didn't find it all that interesting either. Lots of speculation about how the brain works. Touches on the science of it as well.

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fijisy77
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Current read...I feel like every new page is filling my brain with new info. Never used my Kindle's highlighter this much before. Hoping to finish off this great read soon! #BIRTHDAYSPACE thanks for the opportunity, @Liberty !

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This was a lovely listen, and quite informative. I retained a lot because the flow of the content followed many of the brain rules the author described. There was just the right amount of interval repetition and attention-grabbing anecdotes and analogies. The most current and not at all boring. Would recommend to everyone.

#brain #intelligence #childdevelopment #learning #education #perception #senses #thinking #science #genes #gender #emotions

kspenmoll I have the book in print; maybe audible will encourage me to finish. Its great but Slow for me only due to my attention issues!!! 8y
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Olfactory sensing pathways in the brain lead more directly to the hippocampus than do visual and auditory ones. The hippocampus deals with emotions. This is why smells trigger memories so well.

In one experiment, a rose scent was introduced during a memory game and then later during sleep. Those who received the rose scent during deep-wave sleep scored 97% on memory recall the next day. The control only got 86%.

#education #nonfiction #learning

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Short-term memory is now better understood as "working memory" like a desktop or a drawing board where ideas are mapped out. The greater the first impression (think emotion) and the more gradual, interval repetition of the event, the more it's stored in permanent memory. But once we recall memories, they are back in working memory and the storing process is restarted. Hmm.

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geodynamical_nonfiction
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So far, Seligmen's experiments on learned helplessness and Gardner's seven distinct intelligences have been mentioned in this book. Amazing that much of what we know still comes from these milestones in research.

CoffeeBooksRepeat Beautiful!! 8y
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"If workplaces had nap rooms, multitasking was frowned upon, and meetings were held during walks, we'd be vastly more productive. Brain Rules reveals – in plain English – 12 ways our brains truly work."

Sace I've never heard of libro.fm. Thanks for sharing. I just joined and got this book and The Sun is Also a Star 8y
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#lyricalapril #cheapthrills
Hunting down book deals is a hobby of mine, and I refuse to spend more than $4 on a book, so most of my collection is #cheapthrills. Ebook daily deals, library sales, thrift stores, charity shops and Indigo's bargain section are my favourite places! Here are a few recent hauls.

Cinfhen Impressive finds!!! 8y
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Go book go!

A_planNerd I messed up and started Blacklist in March. 8y
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Brain food is just as hard important to read

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NicoleBurnham
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Insightful book on development of the brain and what you can do to make the most of yours. Halfway through reading and really enjoy it.