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Brain Rules – 12 principles for Surviving and Thriving

03/05/2012 /

John Medina, molecular biologist, is the author of a “MUST HAVE” book titled “Brain Rules. 12 principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School“.

Here are the 12 Principles:

1. Exercise: it boosts brain power
2. Survival: the human brain evolved too
3. Wiring: every brain is wired differently
4. Attention: we don’t pay attention to boring things
5. Short-term memory: Repeat to remember
6. Long-term memory: Remember to repeat
7. Sleep: sleep well, think well
8. Stress: stressed brains don’t learn the same way
9. Sensory integration: stimulate more of the senses
10. Vision: vision trumps all other senses
11. Gender: male and female brains are different
12. Exploration: we are powerful and natural explorers

Priorities matter; sequence, too.

20/04/2012 /

“You cannot achieve everything, certainly not at the same time. There are only so many hours in the day, only so many issues that any person can be expert on, only so much access that you can enjoy, only so many decisions that an organization can make. Priorities matter; sequence, too, can be terribly important. The key is to focus – something that takes real discipline, since in a typical day you might be confronted with more than a dozen issues, as many phone calls, several meetings, and inches of paper to read.”

(from Richard N. Haas, The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur. How to be effective in any unruly organizations, Brookings Institution Press, 1999)

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