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“Have you ever considered that the real problem isn’t the teacher—maybe it’s you?”
Motivating teachers matter. They not only make you feel good about the material—they make you feel good about yourself.
The goal was to do well on the test, not look like a genius all the time.
Perky Is as Perky Does
New neurons are born every day, particularly in the brain’s hippocampus, a vital area for learning and memory.
“We’ve found exercise has broad benefits on cognition, particularly executive functioning, including improvements in attention, working memory and the ability to multitask.”
“Exercise is stronger than any medicine I could ever prescribe,” Claudia’s psychiatrist had told her. Indeed, exercise seems to serve as an all-purpose restart button for the brain.
Exercise also spurs the production of neurotransmitters—chemical messengers that transmit signals from one cell to another and one part of the brain to another.
exercise seems to improve our ability to form long-term memories, although we’re not sure precisely how it takes place.
You can learn more effectively, in other words, if you’ve got an exercise program going on. This means, if you’re serious about making a mental shift in your life, it can be invaluable to incorporate exercise into the picture.
Just like making muscular change, making neural change would demand hard work. And lots of it.
Rewiring her brain had to be a continual daily process.
News, after all, is primarily bad news.
Focusing your attention on learning something, followed by sleep, is a magic combination that allows for new synaptic connections
I might look like a madman talking to myself, but you quickly realize how well you do or don’t understand something when you have to teach it in a concise, simple manner.
“it’s what you show, not what you know.”
