Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
“Emotionally arousing events tend to be better remembered than neutral events. While” — John Medina Emotionally Copy Share Image
“The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.” — John Medina Communication Copy Share Image
Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring. — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world. — John Medina Babies Copy Share Image
Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos. — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced… — John Medina Combination Copy Share Image
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it. — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of… — John Medina Effects Copy Share Image
There are nature and nurture components to virtually every behavior a human experiences. The research effort lies only in finding the relevant… — John Medina Absolutes Copy Share Image
Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and… — John Medina Astonishing Copy Share Image
Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about… — John Medina Air Copy Share Image
A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
“If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important… — John Medina Goals Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Curious Copy Share Image
“The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later… — John Medina Education Copy Share Image
“What to say instead: “You really worked hard” What should Ethan’s parents have done? Research reveals a simple solution. Rather than praising… — John Medina Growth mindset Copy Share Image
“Affect detection. First, a person must detect a change in the emotional disposition of someone else. In the behavioral sciences, “affect” means… — John Medina Affect Copy Share Image
“One study hints that it could, though more work needs to be done. Kids with normal hearing took an American Sign Language… — John Medina Education Copy Share Image
“As for employees working at organizations who treat all people the same way, it will be up to you to push for… — John Medina Business Copy Share Image
There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior… — John Medina Actresses Copy Share Image
Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But… — John Medina Ability Copy Share Image
“There are four nutrients you will want in your behavioral formula, adjusting them as your baby gets older: breast-feeding, talking to your… — John Medina Children Copy Share Image
“Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of… — John Medina Every day Copy Share Image
A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely. — John Medina Assembly Copy Share Image
“The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—that is, learned—and retained.” — John Medina Focus Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put” — John Medina Aging Copy Share Image
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina Details Copy Share Image
The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later. — John Medina Learning Copy Share Image
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful… — John Medina Aggressive Copy Share Image
To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely. — John Medina Child Copy Share Image
“We know when our actions fail to match our inner thoughts and feelings, but we often forget that this knowledge is not… — John Medina Knowledge Copy Share Image
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a… — John Medina Audience Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
“The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.” — John Medina Teaching Copy Share Image
“The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—and retained.” — John Medina Focus Copy Share Image
If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone… — John Medina Behavior Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Brain Copy Share Image
Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which… — John Medina Air Copy Share Image
“reasoning is a uniquely human talent. It may have arisen from our need to understand one another’s intentions and motivations. This allowed… — John Medina Intelligence Copy Share Image
