Brain Rules is a current look at what science has found out about the human mind. And let me tell you, it's utterly exciting news. New research shows the brain is even more powerful than we previously thought. The majority of the research our current knowledge of the brain is based off of has only be discovered in the past 10 years. Meaning that we're about to go through a groundswell of information regarding what the human mind is and isn't actually capable of. Better put a helmet on because this presentation is going to blow your mind!

2. #1: Exercise
#2: Survival
#3: Wiring
#4: Attention
#5: Memory 1
#6: Memory 2
#7: Sleep
#8: Stress
#9: Senses
#10: Vision
#11: Gender
#12: Exploration

3. 1. Exercise helps
you think better

6. 2. Our brains have
evolved so we can
survive

7. Your brain is like any
other muscle in your
body, you can grow it

8. Darwinism at its finest

9. What YOU do and learn in
life physically changes
what your brain looks like
– it literally rewires it.

11. 3. Every brain is
different

12. We’re terrible
multi-taskers

13. The brain is not capable of
multi-tasking. We can talk
and breathe, but when it
comes to higher level
tasks, we just can’t do it.

16. 4. We’re getting really
good at ignoring

19. 5. Repeat to remember

21. 6. Remember to repeat

23. If you want to remember
something, make it more
complex.

24. Group 1: Count the number of
letters with diagonal lines and
the number without.
Group 2: Think about the
meaning of each word and rate,
on a scale of 1 to 10, how much
you like or dislike the word.

25. Tractor
Green
Apple
Zero
Weather
Pastel
Quickly
Ocean
Nicely
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Airplane
Jump
Laugh
Tall

26. 7. Sleep well, think
well

29. How to fall asleep
quickly:
“Paradoxical Intention” is a
method to fall asleep more quickly.
The trick: try as hard as you can to
stay awake with your eyes closed
laying in your bed.
Source: http://inoveryourhead.net/images/sleep-is-awesome.png?e83a2c

30. 8. We don’t learn when
we’re stressed

32. Being happy or sad
affects the way your
immune system works

34. 9. We learn best when
we engage several of
the senses

35. Smell is
unusually
effective at
evoking
memory.

36. 10. Vision trumps all
other senses

38. We are incredible at
remembering
pictures.
Hear a piece of
information, and three
days later you'll remember
10% of it. Add a picture
and you'll remember 65%

39. 11. Men and women’s
brains are genetically
different.

41. “Men and women respond
differently to acute stress:
Womenremember
the emotional
details. Men get the
gist.”

42. Males are more
severely afflicted by
schizophrenia than
females.

43. By more than 2 to 1, women
are more likely to get
depressed than men, a
figure that shows up just
after puberty and remains
stable for the next 50 years.

44. Males exhibit more antisocial
behavior.
Females have more anxiety.
Most alcoholics and drug addicts
are male.
Most anorexics are female.

45. 12. At the core,
humans are all
curious.

47. How will you use
your brain to its full
potential?