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Introduction | |
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Exercise Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power | |
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Our brains love motion | |
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The incredible test-score booster | |
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Will you age like Jim or like Frank? | |
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How oxygen builds roads for the brain | |
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Survival Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too | |
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What's uniquely human about us | |
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A brilliant survival strategy | |
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Meet your brain | |
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How we conquered the world | |
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Wiring Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently | |
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Neurons slide, slither, and split | |
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Experience makes the difference | |
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Furious brain development not once, but twice | |
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The Jennifer Aniston neuron | |
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Attention Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things | |
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Emotion matters | |
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Why there is no such thing as multitasking | |
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We pay great attention to threats, sex, and pattern matching | |
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The brain needs a break! | |
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Short-term memory Rule #5: Repeat to remember | |
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Memories are volatile | |
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How details become splattered across the insides of our brains | |
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How the brain pieces them back together again | |
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Where memories go | |
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Long-term memory Rule #6: Remember to repeat | |
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If you don't repeat this within 30 seconds, you'll forget it | |
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Spaced repetition cycles are key to remembering | |
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When floating in water could help your memory | |
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Sleep Rule #7: Sleep well, think well | |
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The brain doesn't sleep to rest | |
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Two armies at war in your head | |
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How to improve your performance 34 percent in 26 minutes | |
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Which bird are you? | |
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Sleep on it! | |
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Stress Rule #8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way | |
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Stress is good, stress is bad | |
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A villain and a hero in the toxic-stress battle | |
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Why the home matters to the workplace | |
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Marriage intervention for happy couples | |
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Sensory integration Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses | |
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Lessons from a nightclub | |
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How and why all of our senses work together | |
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Multisensory learning means better remembering | |
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What's that smell? | |
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Vision Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses | |
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Playing tricks on wine tasters | |
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You see what your brain wants to see, and it likes to make stuff up | |
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Throw out your PowerPoint | |
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Gender Rule #11: Male and female brains are different | |
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Sexing humans | |
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The difference between little girl best friends and little boy best friends | |
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Men favor gist when stressed; women favor details | |
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A forgetting drug | |
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Exploration Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers | |
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Babies are great scientists | |
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Exploration is aggressive | |
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Monkey see, monkey do | |
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Curiosity is everything | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Index | |