Top 63 John Medina Quotes
#1. Emotionally charged events are better remembered - for longer, and with more accuracy - than neutral events.
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#2. If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.
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#3. What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like - it literally rewires it.
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#4. You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.
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#5. (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say),
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#6. What's obvious to you is obvious to you.
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#7. The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.
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#8. Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income.
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#9. Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.
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#10. WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.
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#11. The messages that do grab your attention are connected to memory, interest, and awareness.
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#12. if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.
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#13. Because we don't fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and drive at the same time, even though it is literally impossible for our brains to multitask when it comes to paying attention.
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#14. The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.
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#15. Imaging studies have shown that exercise increases blood volume in a region of the brain called the dentate gyrus. That's a big deal. The dentate gyrus is a vital constituent of the hippocampus, a region deeply involved in memory formation.
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#16. We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.
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#17. 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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#18. One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put
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#19. In one of the strangest types of synesthesia - there are at least three dozen - people see a word and immediately experience a taste on their tongue.
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#20. Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While
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#21. For example, from nouns to verbs to aspects of grammar, we each store language in different areas, recruiting different regions for different components.
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#22. 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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#23. The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things,
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#24. People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days. He further showed that the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class.
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#25. You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
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#26. The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.
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#27. Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood.
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#29. The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.
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#30. After years of investigating aging populations, researchers' answer to the question of how much is not much. If all you do is walk several times a week, your brain will benefit. Even
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#31. Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.
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#32. The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain's performance envelope.
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#33. The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become
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#34. If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.
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#35. When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted. If their mothers had no morning sickness, only 7 percent of kids did that well.
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#37. The perfect storm of occupational stress appears to be a combination of two factors: (1) a great deal is expected of you, and (2) you have no control over whether you will perform well.
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#38. How People Learn. If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.
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#39. 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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#40. people don't pay attention to boring things
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#41. The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.
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#42. One of the greatest predictors of performance in school turns out to be the emotional stability of the home.
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#43. The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained.
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#44. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.
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#45. People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality traits.
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#46. The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.
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#47. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.
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#48. The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.
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#49. Assigning work projects based on an employee's strengths may be critical to your group's productivity. You may discover you had a Michael Jordan on your team but couldn't see it because you were only asking him to play baseball.
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#50. There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.
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#51. The typical human brain can hold about seven pieces of new information for less than 30 seconds!
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#52. To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
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#53. Author Elizabeth Stone once said, Making a decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
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#54. That doesn't last. By their first birthday, Kuhl found, babies can no longer distinguish between the sounds of every language on the planet. They can distinguish only between those to which they have been exposed in the past six months.
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#55. The laboratory, the gold standard appears to be aerobic exercise, 30 minutes at a clip, two or three times a week. Add a strengthening regimen and you get even more cognitive benefit.
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#56. We are human because we can fantasize.
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#57. Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day - turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry - and see whether you get more done.
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#58. Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The
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#60. Souls should, by definition, also teach about the metaphysical dimensions
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#61. Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.
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#62. Music has been a part of the cultural expression of virtually every culture ever studied. It may even extend into prehistoric times. A 35,000-year-old flute made from bird bone has been discovered,
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#63. Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
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