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• Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School
• John Medina
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• 18 February 2018
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Download à Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School 107 characters Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader parent and teacher should know like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its bestHow do we learn What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains Why is multi tasking a myth Why is it so easy to forget and so important to repeat new knowledge Is it true that men and women have different brainsIn Brain Rules Dr John Medina a molecular. I kind of loved this book because it give a lot of the why the science behind a lot of best practices This is the kind of thing that helps me change my behavior when I know how it works under the hoodThe book is broken into a series of brain rules on different subjects I ll list main takeawaysExerciseWe all know it s good for us and it feels good and we should do it The best uote here was Physical activity is cognitive candy also A lifetime of exercise results in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance compared with those who are sedentary The basic science is that blood flow through your brain is good for it and increases brain activity Tip exercise before you need your brain to be at its bestSleepFirst great to have validation that there really are early birds and night owls I m definitely a night owl despite my kids best efforts The interesting implications of this for a company are that people are at their best their most productive at different times of the day so building a culture that is flexible and let s people work their hours is key The science about the history of naps and the fact that the mid afternoon slump is a real thing was also very interesting The studies about sleep loss being as cognitively limiting as alcohol were also illuminating Another study showed sleeping on a problem really does work But the most interesting thing about the sleep chapter was the section on dreaming and what it might mean In particular dreams may at least in large part be a method of neural network training to enforce learning humans appear to replay certain learning experiences at night during the slow wave phase StressToo much stress is bad for you our systems weren t designed for constant stress If you have too much adreline in your system constantly it leads to scarred blood vessels and then eventually a stroke But a little stress is good our brains will remember things that we are stressed about better eg avoid predators on the savannah But too much chronic stress can overwhelms the brain and hurts learning and can even make you depressed Chronic stress is often the culprit in grief or high anxiety households The worst kind of stress is the feeling that you have no control over the problem you are helplessWiring What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like it literally rewires it AttentionI ve said for a long time that humans don t remember facts we remember facts couched in emotions We can easily recall all the strong emotional moments of our lives as if they happened yesterday Now it s great to have the science behind this emotions release dopamine which greatly aids in memory and information processing This means that people will relate better to products that bring up positive emotions for them It also means that an emotional hook to lead into an idea or product will always work as it triggers the emotion in the person Emotionally charged events are better remembered for longer and with accuracy than neutral events Another interesting thing mentioned in this chapter is the 10 minute rule We only have about 10 minutes of attention on something before we start to tune out As the book says This fact suggests a teaching and business imperative Find a way to get and hold somebody s attention for 10 minutes then do it again To get an idea to stick you have to give people the mental model for it first meaning before details Specifically you need to Give the general idea first before diving into details and you will see a 40 percent improvement in understanding And then you also have to simplify and hammer home concepts and let people digest them force feeding too many concepts at once won t sink in In terms of paying attention vs automatic things like riding a bicycle Multitasking when it comes to paying attention is a myth the brain can only pay attention to one thing at a time MemoryThere are different types of memory declarative I can remember my address and SSN non declarative I can remember how to ride a bike short term and long term Short term memory isn t converted to long term easily People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days And the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class Keys to doing so are coding in emotion why word association works and repetition repeat to remember Also thinking about what tree the person will mentally group the information and how to increase entry points or create strong ones Interestingly Memory worked best it appeared if the environmental conditions at retrieval mimicked the environmental conditions at encoding This means if you learn something sad you will remember it better if you get sad again Fascinating This makes sense as our brains must group similar patterns it remembers together To get practical you can create science art language stations to help people remember betterWe all know this to be true our memory isn t perfect This is because we remember patterns not facts or single instances Our brains give us only an approximate view of reality because they mix new knowledge with past memories and store them together as one Another tidbit I liked that fits in the repeat to remember bucket A great deal of research shows that thinking or talking about an event immediately after it has occurred enhances memory for that event Basically the an idea can be repeated especially in timed intervals the chance it has of being encoded from short term to long term memory Sensory IntegrationWe remember data from each of our senses and we learn best if we stimulate multiple senses concurrently You remember better if you see AND hear something or even if given words and pictures Smells or sounds or tastes can trigger additional associations or emotions and help us create positive or negative associations to things we see or do This is why people who haven t adopted digital reading say things like I love the smell of a good book this is why smelling fresh roasted coffee is a key part of Starbucks playbook Smells have the power to bring back memories that are associated with them VisionVision trumps and overrides all other senses I loved the story about the wine experts who were fooled by white wine with red dye in it because their eyes said it was red wine Fascinating to read about the science of how the brain takes in the signals from the eyes combines both signals and applies pattern matching to fill in details This means the brain has creative freedom to insert whatever it wants into our vision Practical applications our vision is caught by bold colors orientations motion We remember images better than words because it s easier to pattern match the image so use images in presentations MusicMusic makes us empathic we can better recognize the emotions in speech which helps in social abilities Making music is 10x better for kids than listening to baby einstein CD s Listening to music reduced cortisol and stress GenderBoys and girls have different brain structures When under stress men remember the gist of things better and women remember details and emotions These uotes describe it well The difference between girls and boys communication could be described as the addition of a single powerful word Boys might say Do this Girls would say Let s do this When girl best friends communicate with each other they lean in maintain eye contact and do a lot of talking They use their sophisticated verbal talents to cement their relationships Boys never do this They rarely face each other directly preferring either parallel or obliue angles They make little eye contact their gaze always casting about the room They do not use verbal information to cement their relationships Instead commotion seems to be the central currency of a little boy s social economy Doing things physically together is the glue that cements their relationships In our evolutionary history having a team that could understand both the gist and details of a given stressful situation helped us conuer the world Why would the world of business be exempted from that advantage Having an executive team or work group capable of simultaneously understanding both the emotional forests and the trees of a stressful project such as a merger might be a marriage made in business heaven It could even affect the bottom line ExplorationWe learn by doing by exploring the world We take pleasure in that exploration Discovery based learning is best Medical school offers the best on the job learning other types of education should do better to model it Learn and be curious

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Download à Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School 107 characters Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School Most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron You'll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can't tie his own shoesYou will discover how Every brain is wired differentlyExercise improves cognitionWe are designed to never stop learning and exploringMemories are volatileSleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learnVision trumps all of the other sensesStress changes the way we learnIn the end you'll understand how your brain really works and how to get the most out of i. We participated in a research study led by this author last year so I was curious to read this book John Medina was an engaging and thought provoking speaker and this is an engaging and thought provoking It took a while to read because I had to stop and think after each section It was relevant to teaching in many ways but also to life in general

Download à Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School 107 characters Brain Rules 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work Home and School Biologist shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work In each chapter he describes a brain rule what scientists know for sure about how our brains work and then offers transformative ideas for our daily livesMedina's fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science You'll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball You'll peer over a surgeon's shoulder as he proves that. The content when you can get to it is interesting But I find his writing style incredibly annoying full of anecdotes that don t really have a very tight connection to the content of the chapter Then midway thru the book you learn that he finds that 10 minute chunks interspersed with anecdotes helps students pay attention in lecture I totally accept that for an oral presentation But in a written text it s really annoying I m used to reading nonfiction that doesn t seem to be talking down to me like I m 17