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The Free Book of Neuroscience: 13 Ways to Understand and Train Your Brain for Life
119 pages, Unknown Binding
Published March 1, 2022
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August 22, 2023Feels like a summary of many books. Nice to read on a short flight. text in quotes is distilled from the book. rest are my notes.
1. 'Mnemonic Time travel for improving recall' - the backwards thing works (as we know from childhood games) because of the association of thoughts it makes us create, giving us a reason and crutch to store and recall incidents.
2. 'Forgetting is a brain hack to enable us to store and retrieve more relevant/useful things. Use help to organise'
3. 'live long by - drinking alcohol (!), exercising, drinking coffee, being the right weight, spending upto 2 hours everyday in their hobbies'
4. 'Leadership during uncertain times - When brains function at high stress level, even a seemingly innocuous question may seem to imply that a persons capability or status is being questioned. remain positive and remove relation to individual capacity/ status/ ability etc.
Create certainty by sharing information, scheduling in advance etc
offer unexpected autonomy nad flexibility - empower. that is huge positive boost.
Empathy - relate to employees
Emphasise shared goals, fairness and cooperation'
5. 'Reading to kids through dialogic reading' - participative reading encourages lateral thinking, involvement, scenario building and imagination
6. 'Praise your kids for overcoming failure - growth mindset vs fixed mindset' - their abilities to think differently, work hard, improving and growing - effort and not the result or innate abilities
7. 'Coffee - Phenylindanes reduce chances of dementia'
8. 'Better Sleep, fasting between meals, exercise to increase neurogenesis'
9. 'socially integrated, articulable personal goals and values, self belief and strong self esteem,
1. 'Mnemonic Time travel for improving recall' - the backwards thing works (as we know from childhood games) because of the association of thoughts it makes us create, giving us a reason and crutch to store and recall incidents.
2. 'Forgetting is a brain hack to enable us to store and retrieve more relevant/useful things. Use help to organise'
3. 'live long by - drinking alcohol (!), exercising, drinking coffee, being the right weight, spending upto 2 hours everyday in their hobbies'
4. 'Leadership during uncertain times - When brains function at high stress level, even a seemingly innocuous question may seem to imply that a persons capability or status is being questioned. remain positive and remove relation to individual capacity/ status/ ability etc.
Create certainty by sharing information, scheduling in advance etc
offer unexpected autonomy nad flexibility - empower. that is huge positive boost.
Empathy - relate to employees
Emphasise shared goals, fairness and cooperation'
5. 'Reading to kids through dialogic reading' - participative reading encourages lateral thinking, involvement, scenario building and imagination
6. 'Praise your kids for overcoming failure - growth mindset vs fixed mindset' - their abilities to think differently, work hard, improving and growing - effort and not the result or innate abilities
7. 'Coffee - Phenylindanes reduce chances of dementia'
8. 'Better Sleep, fasting between meals, exercise to increase neurogenesis'
9. 'socially integrated, articulable personal goals and values, self belief and strong self esteem,
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