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“Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“John Bransford, a gifted education researcher, has spent many years studying what separates novice teachers from expert teachers. One of many things he noticed is the way the experts organize information. “[Experts’] knowledge is not simply a list of facts and formulas that are relevant to their domain; instead, their knowledge is organized around core concepts or ‘big ideas’ that guide their thinking about their domains,” he cowrote in How People Learn.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“That’s why a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task and makes up to 50 percent more errors.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“Babies are born with a deep desire to understand the world around them and an incessant curiosity that compels them to aggressively explore it. This need for explanation is so powerfully stitched into their experience that some scientists describe it as a drive, just as hunger and thirst and sex are drives.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School