Brain Rules

John Median is a brilliant writer. Within “Brain Rules” book he manage to convert so many scientific and social study to story to hook the reader. He nicely describe how bring works. The author also illustrated how these finding could boost one's productivity at work, home and school. John also open up and talk about his childhood, love life and parenthood to make connection with reader and have himself and incidents which he have been through as example.

John divide the brain rules to 12 as follow:
Rule #1: EXERCISE: Exercise boosts brain power.
Rule #2: SURVIVAL: The human brain evolved, too.
Rule #3:WIRING: Every brain is wired differently.
Rule #4: ATTENTION: We don't pay attention to boring things.
Rule #5: MEMORY (SHORT-TERM): Repeat to remember.
Rule #6: MEMORY (LONG-TERM): Remember to repeat.
Rule #7: SLEEP: Sleep well, think well.
Rule #8: STRESS: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.
Rule #9: SENSORY INTEGRATION: Stimulate more of the senses.
Rule #10: VISION: Vision trumps all other senses.
Rule #11: GENDER: Male and female brains are different.
Rule #12: EXPLORATION: We are powerful and natural explorers.

Brain functionality have been discussed within this book in a way that a person with no prior knowledge could follow as well. The analogies provided within the book are nice and easy to apprehend. In addition results of many experiments on human and animal shared to back the rules provided in each section. Also it have been demonstrated how brain injuries patients contributed immensely to brain study and learn nitty-gritty of brain.

John Medina also described how these findings could be leveraged to boost productivity within school, work and personal life. John describe how and when brain could be more prepared to learn and digest materials as well as could perform well and retrieve data accordingly. Nice example of school, work and personal life have been provided to support all these findings.

Furthermore John talk openly about his childhood, love life as well as hid parenthood. This openness hook the reader and attract their attention. He have nice parables of his childhood as well as devastating ones. He directly and indirectly correlate all this stories to one of the topics within the book and illustrate their effects within his personal life.

I find this book interesting it is one of a kind for me so it gave me a lot learn. Being aware of what's possibly going on in once mind could be come handy to survive and thrive.