7. Your brain gets tired VERY easily!
2% of body mass
20% of energy consumed!
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10. That is where you do …
Planning
Memorizing
Creativity
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12. When you are multitasking, you are
actually using your autopilot!
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13. Multitasking messes both jobs!
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14. Write down ideas to clear your mind!
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15. We think about what is easy to think
about not about what is important!
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16. Thinking about problems is easy …
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17. Imagining solutions is not!
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18. Staying Cool Under Pressure
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19. The Limbic system is responsible for
“Fight or Flight” responses
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20. When it is activated …
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22. We tend to be pessimistic!
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23. Memory does not perform well!
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24. Sometimes, that is good
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25. We get derailed by “conspiracy
theory”!
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26. Expectations get out of control!
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27. Your brain needs a good level of stress
and alertness to work properly
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28. Dopamine is a chemical that help your
brain to work …
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29. it is generated by good expectations or
rewards
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30. Humor and positive expectations
generate dopamine
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31. Fear produces adrenaline which also
help attention, but it might have
negative effects as well
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32. Over alertness reduces your capability
to concentrate!!!
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33. To get out of over alertness try to
activate other parts of your brain …
take a walk or have a shower
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42. Autonomy
• Daniel Pink, “Drive: The surprising truth about
what motivates you”
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