“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
Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding. — John Medina Copy Share Image
The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect. — John Medina 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
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
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
“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
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
“People view their own behaviors as originating from amendable, situational constraints,but they view other people's behavior as originating from inherent, immutable personality… — John Medina Behavior Copy Share Image
I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view.… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I think the most incredible fact about the brain is that it is the only piece of biological real estate that can… — John Medina 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
Women tend to recall the details of an emotionally competent stimulus, using more of their left hemisphere to do the processing. Men… — John Medina 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
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
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
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 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
There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem… — John Medina 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.” — John Medina Teaching 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 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
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 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
You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced… — John Medina 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
Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful… — John Medina 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
“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 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 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 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
Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of… — John Medina Copy Share Image
