Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

by John Medina

In short, this region controls many of the behaviors that separate us from other animals (and from teenagers).

Good sense of humour.

The brain acts like a muscle: The more activity you do, the larger and more complex it can become.

I guess this is the brain elasticity comes from.

You can improve your chances of remembering something if you reproduce the environment in which you first put it into your brain.

This would explain why going back to where you thought of getting something helps you remember if you forget on your way to getting it.

McGurk effect.

I wonder, if by chance, an experiment was ever done with people who lost their hearing later in life. When you lip read, you repeat the words in your head with the voice remembered of the speaker or if unknown, you compensate.

Thus, two people can see the same input and come away with vastly different perceptions.

That explains a lot.