#1: Exercise #2: Survival #3: Wiring #4: Attention #5: Memory 1 #6: Memory 2

#7: Sleep #8: Stress #9: Senses #10: Vision #11: Gender #12: Exploration

1. Exercise helps you think better

2. Our brains have evolved so we can

survive

Your brain is like any other muscle in your body, you

can grow it

Darwinism at its finest

What YOU do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like – it literally rewires it.

3. Every brain is different

We’re terrible multi-taskers

The brain is not capable of multi-tasking. We can talk and breathe, but when it comes to higher level tasks, we just can’t do it.

4. We’re getting really good at

ignoring

5. Repeat to remember

6. Remember to repeat

http://www.brainrules.net/short-term-memory

If you want to remember something, make it more complex.

Group 1: Count the number of letters with diagonal lines and the number without.

Group 2: Think about the meaning of each word and rate, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much you like or dislike the word.

Tractor GreenAppleZeroWeather

PastelQuicklyOceanNicelyCountertop

AirplaneJumpLaughTall

7. Sleep well, think well

How to fall asleep quickly:“Paradoxical Intention” is a method to fall asleep more quickly. The trick: try as hard as you can to stay awake with your eyes closed laying in your bed.

Source: http://inoveryourhead.net/images/sleep-is-awesome.png?e83a2c

8. We don’t learn when we’re

stressed

Being happy or sad affects the way your immune system works

9. We learn best when we engage

several of the senses

Smell is unusually effective at evoking memory.

10. Vision trumps all other senses

http://brainrules.net/vision?scene=

We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you'll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you'll remember 65%

11. Men and women’s brains are

genetically different.

“Men and women respond differently to acute stress:

Women remember the emotional details. Men get the gist.”

Males are more severely afflicted by schizophrenia than females.

By more than 2 to 1, women are more likely to get depressed than men, a figure that shows up just after puberty and remains stable for the next 50 years.

Males exhibit more antisocial behavior.

Females have more anxiety. Most alcoholics and drug addicts are male.

Most anorexics are female.

12. At the core, humans are all curious.

How will you use your brain to its full potential?