Khalid

“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

“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.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“I was born with the horse and buggy. I die with the space shuttle. What kind of thing is that?” His eyes twinkled. “I live the good life!”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“Stress hormones seem to have a particular liking for cells in the hippocampus, which is a problem because the hippocampus is deeply involved in many aspects of human learning.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School