Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.
John MedinaEvery brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.
John MedinaYou 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.
John MedinaThere are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.
John Medina