John Medina Quotes

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• You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.
• Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.
• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something…
• What's obvious to you is obvious to you.
• 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…
• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something…
• The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their…
• We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.
• Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or…
• 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…
• What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.
• The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things,
• To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
• The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To…
• The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.
• We are human because we can fantasize.

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