DATE 2016/01/27
COURSE 4-3 Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
NOTES
OUTLINES
- Practice appears to strengthen and reinforce connections between different brain regions, creating highways between the brain's control centers and the centers that store knowledge
- Cajal felt the key to his own success wash is perseverance
- Taking responsibility for your own learning is one of the most important things you can do
- It's important to learn to switch on an occasional cool dispassion that helps you to not only focus on what you're trying to learn, but also to tune people out if you discover that their interests lie in undercutting you such undercutting is all too common, as people are often just as competitive as they are cooperative.
- Take pride in who you are
- Use your natural contrariness to defy the always present prejudices from others about what you can accomplish
WORDS
oddball
delinquent
stubborn
rebellious
Neuroscience
delinquency
myelin
sheath
fatty
insulation
demean
barb
empathy
talisman
dispassion
contrariness
defy
prejudice
