John Medina Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Medina
John Medina Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.
The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.
The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like - it literally rewires it.
Emotionally charged events are better remembered - for longer, and with more accuracy - than neutral events.
The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained.
The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.
Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income.
There are two ways to beat the cruelty of a harsh environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter.
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.
In one of the strangest types of synesthesia - there are at least three dozen - people see a word and immediately experience a taste on their tongue.
Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.
To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day - turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry - and see whether you get more done.
if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.
Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources.
One of the greatest predictors of successful aging, they found, is the presence or absence of a sedentary lifestyle. Put
One of the greatest predictors of performance in school turns out to be the emotional stability of the home.
Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
Is jumping out of an airplane inherently stressful? The answer is no, and that highlights the subjective nature of stress. The