“souls should, by definition, also teach about “the metaphysical dimensions” — John Medina Metaphysical Copy Share Image
You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it. — John Medina Attention Copy Share Image
Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience. — John Medina Change Copy Share Image
“Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development,” — John Medina Brain development Copy Share Image
“attention Brain Rule #6 We don’t pay attention to boring things.” — John Medina Attention Copy Share Image
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. — John Medina Doe Copy Share Image
Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of… — John Medina Children Copy Share Image
“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become” — John Medina Children Copy Share Image
“Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)” — John Medina Child Copy Share Image
“Most of its functions involve what some researchers call the “four Fs”: fighting, feeding, fleeing, and … reproductive behavior.” — John Medina Science Copy Share Image
The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss. — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. — John Medina Attention Copy Share Image
Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way. — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
“Because we don’t fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and… — John Medina Brains Copy Share Image
Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation… — John Medina Bunch Copy Share Image
Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only… — John Medina Accomplish Copy Share Image
Even though we don't know squat about how the brain works, the little we do know suggests that if you wanted to… — John Medina America Copy Share Image
“When the children reached school age, 21 percent scored 130 or more points on a standard IQ test, a level considered gifted.… — John Medina Children Copy Share Image
The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of… — John Medina Behavior Copy Share Image
“The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding)… — John Medina Audience Copy Share Image
“Because we don’t fully understand how our brains work, we do dumb things. We try to talk on our cell phones and… — John Medina Business environment Copy Share Image
Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning… — John Medina Amount Copy Share Image
The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to… — John Medina Benefits Copy Share Image
“Ethan’s parents constantly told him how brainy he was. “You’re so smart! You can do anything, Ethan. We are so proud of… — John Medina Academic achievement Copy Share Image
“More research has since confirmed and extended these simple findings. In addition to satisfying relationships, other behaviors that predict happiness include: • a… — John Medina Attitude of gratitude Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely… — John Medina Depression Copy Share Image
There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem… — John Medina Activity Copy Share Image
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect. — John Medina Aspect Copy Share Image
“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.” — John Medina Interruption Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.” — John Medina Fitness Copy Share Image
