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The Science of Thinking Smarter

April 27, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

John Med­i­na, Direc­tor of the Brain Cen­ter for Applied Learn­ing Research at Seat­tle Pacif­ic Uni­ver­si­ty, and author of Brain Rules: 12 Prin­ci­ples for Sur­viv­ing and Thriv­ing at Work, Home, and School, wrote a great arti­cle for us on Brain Rules: sci­ence and prac­tice, Brain Rules-John Medinabring­ing brain research to dai­ly life.

We enjoyed the book very much since it pro­vides an excel­lent and engag­ing overview of recent brain research, so we are glad to see it reach­ing new cor­ners. You may enjoy these 2 new resources:

1) A 52-minute video based on his Google talk on April 8th: click Here. Great dis­cus­sion of the brain ben­e­fits of phys­i­cal exer­cise and stress management.

2) An inter­view at Har­vard Busi­ness Review, titled The Sci­ence of Think­ing Smarter. I enjoyed some of the exchanges, such as this one (though I find the ques­tion a bit mys­ti­fy­ing, are we assum­ing it is genes all that mat­ter for leadership?):

Ques­tion: In the absence of genet­ic test­ing, do you see any mer­it in the sort of psy­cho­log­i­cal test­ing some busi­ness­es use, such as the Myers-Brig­gs test?
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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Peak Performance Tagged With: brain, brain-rules, cognitive-science, educators, Google-talk, Harvard-Business-Review, improve-productivity, IQ-tests, John-Medina, Leadership, lifelong-learners, Myers-Briggs-test, neuroscience, psychological-testing, science, Stress, thinking-smarter, workplace

Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Education, Videogames, and much more…

July 16, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Well, today we have an excep­tion­al col­lec­tion of blog car­ni­vals to men­tion. Please only start brows­ing if you do have some time to spare…otherwise you will end up spend­ing more time read­ing the arti­cles than you real­ly can afford to 🙂

First, some superb edi­tions of:

Grand Rounds (Med­i­cine). An amaz­ing col­lec­tion of med­i­cine-relat­ed arti­cles, with fun guid­ance. You can also check the pre­vi­ous edi­tion of this car­ni­val, great­ly pre­sent­ed, that we had for­got­ten to men­tion (no brain is per­fect, if you mind to ask!). 

Encephalon (neu­ro­science and psychology)

Edu­ca­tion Wonks (edu­ca­tion, perhaps?)

Tan­gled Bank (gen­er­al science)

A new edi­tion of Brain Fit­ness (we launched this car­ni­val in Jan­u­ary and Talia host­ed this edi­tion; let us know if you want to host future ones).

And posts on a vari­ety of topics:

Brain Blog­ging,   Video Game Blog­gers,   Nurs­ing,   Eco­nom­ics and Social Pol­i­cy,   Entre­pre­neurs,   Fam­i­ly Life,   Teacher In Ser­vice,   Online Edu­ca­tion,   Per­son­al Devel­op­ment,   Online Uni­ver­si­ty,   ADD Blog,   Total Mind and Body Fit­ness,   Arse­nal Of Goals & Plans,   Doing it Dif­fer­ent­ly,   Obser­va­tions on Life,   Brain Code,   Edu­ca­tion and School Issues,   Depres­sion and Men­tal health,   Spe­cial Needs,   Per­son­al Growth.

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: cognitive-reserve, Education & Lifelong Learning, health-policy, improve-productivity, introverts, lifelong-learners, Mental-Health, physiology, students, workplace

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