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Brain Rules (2008)
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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
John Medina
Born:
January 19, 1956
(age 68)
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