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Encourage Your Brain: Your Brain is on a Budget
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the author of 7½ Lessons About the Brain. She offers some eyebrow-raising ideas in the book, and it’s a fun, fast, fascinating read—I highly recommended it. An important point she makes early in the book is that the brain’s...
Encourage Your Brain: Suit Up
A friend of mine is taking a masterclass on fashion and came across an interesting piece of research about what happens in the brain when we wear certain types of attire. A researcher had subjects wear a white coat that they believed belonged to a doctor. Those who...
Encourage Your Brain: Avoid the Super-Chicken Syndrome
William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who was studying what would increase the egg-laying productivity of chickens. His hypothesis was that by continually breeding the Super-Chickens of the flock generation after generation, one would...
Encourage Your Brain: An “Eye-Opening” Brain Hack to Get You Going
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could peek inside people’s brains? Well, in a way, it turns out we actually can. And that’s because our EYES are actually a part of our brains. During development in utero, our eyes get squeezed outside of...
Encourage Your Brain: How to Get People to Cooperate
There are several studies on group cooperation that showed that people can be twice as likely to be helpful to another when they’ve experienced some level of behavioral synchrony. Behavioral synchrony simply means that our behaviors match...
Encourage Your Brain: Abusing Self-Care
We’re familiar with the concept of self-care—often made clear by the airplane oxygen-mask metaphor, making sure we put our oxygen-mask on first so that we can stay alive to help others. I am ALL FOR self-care. It’s critical. What I am NOT...
Encourage Your Brain: Show me your hands!
These days with so many Zoom calls, most of us only see each other from the shoulders or neck up. And that has some interesting and unintended consequences for our ability to connect with one another. It turns out that the brain gives 12.5...
Encourage Your Brain: I Am Contagious
I recently watched a TEDx talk by Vanessa Van Edwards called “You Are Contagious.” And she’s not talking about transmission of diseases—which is something we obviously need to be careful about these days. She talked about transmission of...
Encourage Your Brain: Great Lighting, Great Lens, Same You
True confession time – I don’t love getting my photograph taken. As we were working on our new website for The Academies (hoping to launch it soon!), and the team unanimously voted that my picture should be on the home page, I drug my feet...
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