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Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

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Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

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Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

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What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

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Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

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If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

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John Medina

John Medina

Born: January 19, 1956 (age 69)
Bio: John J. Medina is a developmental molecular biologist with special research interests in the isolation and characterization of genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of psychiatric disorders.
Known for:
  1. Brain Rules (2008)
  2. What You Need to Know About Alzheimer's (1999)
  3. Depression: How It Happens How It's Healed (1998)
  4. Your Best Brain (2014)

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