Three "Brainy" Facts That Will Help You Wise Up
By: Bean Jones
Brain Food. Discover all the cool, quirky parts of your mind with this fun book.
Hoping to shake off my holiday hangover fast, I picked up a copy of Welcome to Your Brain: The Science of Jet Lag, Love, and Other Curiosities of Life by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang.
The book is a fun and enlightening read. I found out many new things about the human brain that are sure to help me wise up. Here are three of those "brainy" facts:
1. You use more than 10 percent of your brain. Many people believe that we "only use 10 percent of our brains." However, scientists who study the brain dispel this myth. Aamodt and Wang clarify: "In reality, you use your whole brain everyday. If big chunks of the brain were never used, damaging them would not cause noticeable problems. This is emphatically not the case!" So, quit making excuses about not being able to learn how to work with the your office computer's newly installed software just because you've used up your brain's 10 percent. Your brain is 100 percent capable of learning new things--as long as you put your mind to it.2. Happiness is better when it comes in small doses. "Frequent small positive events have a greater cumulative impact than occasional large positive events," reveal Aamodt and Wang. "It's hard to believe that it would make you happier to spend fifteen minutes every evening for the rest of your life having a relaxed drink with a sympathetic friend than it would to win the lottery--but it's almost certainly true." Thus, take time to touch base with a friend or a loved one even during a busy day at work. This way you won't end up snapping at your co-workers.
3. You shouldn't cram if you want to get smart. "Psychologists have known for more than a century that your brain retains many kinds of information longer if it has an opportunity to process what you've learned," write Aamodt and Wang. They add: "Two study sessions with time between them can result in twice as much learning as a single study session of the same length." As such, if you're due to make a big presentation, don't make the whole thing in one sitting. To make sure that your data stays coherent, take periodic breaks so you can look at what you've written so far with "fresh eyes.
No doubt this is definitely one book that will fire up your gray matter and gear you up for the mental challenges that lie ahead.
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Comments
Surely brain the storage of all the knowledge you feed . But using them wisely is the most thing to consider. I used to work a place where I think very convenient and relaxing feeling. I train my self to focus one direction at a time,certainly you can make used every thing you need but if you started worrying at the same time while working that s the time you can't think properly and feel tiresome no matter you tried to work intellegently. Brain stop working with you and you feel exhausted and tired.
Very interesting to know that Happiness is better when it comes in small doses. Becoming aware of this fact and making a commitment to do small acts that make us happy-say taking a walk, saying prayers, playing with kids etc- can go a long way!
These are very logical techniques and they definitely work...........