Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter
even simple creatures like reptiles have. It governs your most basic survival instincts, for example whether, if threatened, you ...
Unpacking Your Mind 13 Your divided brain Put the three parts of your brain back together and pause to admire them! Imagine you ...
Hermann takes the idea that our brains have two halves and adds to it a theory that we have already met, that higher-order think ...
about ways of analyzing yourself as a learner. It is very important to realize that there are no right or wrong ways of approach ...
between the logical and the intuitive. Of course, it is never a simple question of “either/or,” just as neuroscience shows that ...
going out to complete the circuit, so your nerve cells are connected. And you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that th ...
their dendrites to connect to other neurons in our brain, and the third group conveys messages from our brain to our muscles and ...
An important consequence is that, to ensure that your brain is powered up, you need to give it as many new experiences as pos- s ...
towns. We lay out road networks. We create languages and number systems. Interestingly, this very positive attribute can also li ...
simply diverted into ensuring that you live to fight another day. This is not the same thing as saying that all stress is bad fo ...
Brain + Personality = Mind In this book we will be applying what we know about the brain, about emotions, about values, and abou ...
food that is diuretic. Many people are, in fact, permanently living in a state of partial dehydration in which their brains work ...
brain becomes alert over a short period, explaining why coffee helps to keep you awake at night. Too much coffee, however, cause ...
Most people find it helpful to have a good breakfast after not hav- ing eaten for many hours. And even if you do not feel hungry ...
Certainly, we know that music can reduce stress levels, aid relaxation, and influence our mood. Our heart beat, for example, wil ...
honor to talk of late nights and excessive hours working, as if they merited congratulation rather than sympathetic disapproval! ...
28 Power Up Your Mind that our natural body clock is closer to the lunar cycle of 25 hours rather than the solar rhythm of 24 ho ...
By the time you have read this book, you will have seen many ways in which you can power up your mind and improve your per- form ...
minutes of being talked at by Geoff as he went through an interminable PowerPoint™ presentation. She decided to wander out to th ...
feet at the beginning: it really seemed to engage all of our attention and I feel that we have all really bought into the proble ...
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