You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.