Book Byte # 268 "Activate Your Brain" by Scott G. Halford
How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author
“The simplest and most crucial step we can all take in living the life we want is to start doing it now. If we wait to have all of our ducks in order, the first ducks we collected will have flown the coop by the time we get to the last ducks and it becomes a never-ending amassing of ducks. The prize goes to those who can get over being completely prepared before they begin.”
“(cleaning out a closet that’s been staring at you for months can feel just about as good, brain-wise, as getting a promotion that you’ve worked for).”
“(Many of the activation ideas in this book will suggest you write something down by hand; that’s because it’s been shown that we create better memory trails in our brain when we handwrite.1 Handwriting is like strength training for the brain.)”
“Avoid making big decisions when you are overly stressed or tired. That’s when the emotional brain comes out to play, and you don’t want that brain making important calls in your life.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea
Understanding how your brain functions and how to manage it is the first step toward forming strong relationships with others, cultivating a happy outlook, achieving your goals, boosting productivity, and averting mental deterioration. You can make the most of your life and your brain by maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle, getting enough rest and sleep, and exercising both mentally and physically.
To keep your brain healthy, learn. Your brain has to work hard to create new neural connections when you learn anything new, like a language. This keeps your brain healthy and keeps it from going blind. Heuristic learning is the most effective approach to acquire new skills; that is, practice as much as you can and learn by making mistakes.
Your intuitive understanding of the material you're learning will grow as a result. For example, you should speak, read, listen, and write in the language you are learning as much as you can.
Set time limits for your email and get rid of pop-ups. When you're focused on a crucial activity, even a little diversion can have disastrous consequences. When using your computer, you can prevent this by turning off pop-up notifications and checking your mail only at certain times of the day, such two o'clock and six o'clock.
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