Comments on: Review: Brain Rules

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:08:46 +0000

Avani, If your goal is to study better, there are two books that I recommend: Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century and Learn More Study Less. Brain Rules is a good book, but for students I think these two books are more practical.

By: Avani

Avani — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:19:57 +0000

I’m a student who strives to do my best, and when I saw this book at the bookstore, I hoped this would help optimize my brain function. I find myself unable to focus at times, and I sometimes wonder how I can’t better my brain capacity.

I just started reading this first two chapters of the book (about exercise and survival), and I am considering taking some of the advice the author gives to improve my brain function.

However, before I invest too much time and effort into these “12 rules”, I want to know: Has any one strictly followed these rules in some way or form and now feels different in the way they are able to function?

Avani

By: Donald Latumahina

Donald Latumahina — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:17:17 +0000

Kathy,
Some of the principles in the book are already well known but many people don’t know the reasons behind them and therefore don’t take them seriously. Also there are many myths out there regarding the brain. In my opinion, the main contribution of this book is giving you the why and helping you separate the facts from the myths.

Armen,

it is up to those of us who are creators to keep “making an item interesting” in the back of our minds while working on it.

That’s right. A book that I’ve found useful for that purpose is Made to Stick. By the way, yours is a nice article. One thing I learn is “there is no added benefit to your efficiency to work in a perceived high-stress scenario.”

Peter,
Thanks for the recommendations. I’m always looking for new books and resources so I will check your recommendations.

By: Peter Levin

Peter Levin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:27:13 +0000

Thanks,

I don’t think I ever heard of this book, will read reviews and possibly order

I am fascinated by learning as well

I like Joe Dispenza book – Evolve Your Brain, it is really good

I wrote a post in the morning about energy management, it is not about learning but based on covered points shares very similar concepts

Also Learning Strategies corporations is a great place to improve memory, brain power and so force

Thanks

By: Armen Shirvanian

Armen Shirvanian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:55:17 +0000

There are certainly useful points to take away from this review. As it says we don’t pay attention to boring things, it is up to those of us who are creators to keep “making an item interesting” in the back of our minds while working on it. This can involve stimulating more of the senses, as the other point brings up. Instead of creating a plain PowerPoint presentation, we can create one that conjures up more thoughts in the viewer by adding in charts or mind maps, or images that connect to each other during the presentation.

Another point I noticed brought up here is the one about stress causing brains to not learn the same way. I recently wrote an article about this concept, explaining a point from the book Social Intelligence, about how optimal cognitive efficiency occurs at the point between high-stress and complete boredom, and that too much stress causes fear hormone to be released and rise along with cortisol levels, leading to less efficient learning.

http://www.timelessinformation.com/optimal-cognitive-efficiency/

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:54:00 +0000

Hrm.. nothing too new I guess in this book?