ReadingNotes

Brain Rules

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina - ISBN 0979777704 - Pear Press 2008

Motivation

Describe in a sentences or two what motivated me to read this book.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

Rule #1 Exercise boosts brain power
- my Exercises page with weekly reminders
- check is Exercises and PersonalInformationStream are correlated
Rule #2 The human brain evolved, too
- see FECN+MecaMind
- Wikipedia:Triune brain
- mention of Wikipedia:Theory of mind or , as discovered during SC02
- on the cooperation, see Wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation and Wikipedia:Game theory
Rule #3 Every brain is wired differently
- my own requirements for Cognition#WikiBrainMapping and ObjectsExoBrain
- see also LImagerieCerebraleDansTousSesEtats
- on IQ (p63) see my IntelligenceQuotient page
Rule #4 We don’t pay attention to boring things
- mention of Gun, Gems and Stell (p75), cf LinkOfTheMonth
- regarding Posner's Trinity Model (Wikipedia:Attentional shift#Three_stages_of_attention_orientingand attention (p78), see Cognition#GoalFocusAttention including links on the attention networks
- "Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day" (p93) cf CognitiveEnvironments and Cognition#DedicatedCreativityTime
- see also the split focus: multitasking at M.I.T., FRONTLINE: digital nation, PBS 2010
Rule #5 Repeat to remember
- metaphor of door handles close to Wikipedia:Affordance (p114)
- according to Learning science : Actively recalling information from memory beats elaborate study methods, ScienceDaily January 2011 it could be "Retrieve to remember"
  - added to Cognition#DailyExercisesFeed
Rule #6 Remember to repeat
- see also my MemoryRecipe
Rule #7 Sleep well, think well
- see Health#Sleep
Rule #8 Stressed brains don’t learn the same way
- mention of Wikipedia:Learned helplessness
- previously discovered while watching a video related to InformationRules
- difference between rate stress and chronic stress
  - e.g. in the workplace
Rule #9 Stimulate more of the senses
- chapter read while listening to Jamie XX remixes
- Wikipedia:Involuntary memory
  - Proust's Wikipedia:In Search of Lost Time
- note on olfactory sensory specificity of bypassing the thalamus
Rule #10 Vision trumps all other senses
- cf earlier discovered table on senses bandwidth (in MB/s)
- see also the work of Varela, cf TreeOfKnowledge
Donald Duck in MathMagic Land, Walt Disney Pictures 1959
Rule #11 Male and female brains are different
- ?
Rule #12 We are powerful and natural explorers
- mention of Wikipedia:Mirror neurons (p269)

Overall remarks and questions

chapters tend to be opened by pathological case, thus showing that the "average" behavior, even if expected, is not the sole behavior
- consequently showing how useful the correct is
- also showing what related problems could be avoided
chapters also open on ideas and suggestion for decision makers, in particular for the education system overall but also the workplace
multiple metaphors of software as pre-established brain circuitry

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Fabien Benetou's PIM