Brain Rules:12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

In this summary, you'll learn how your brain really works, and how to get the most out of it. No matter what technologies and business strategies you use in your career, your success actually depends on one crucial, unique, and irreplaceable tool:  your brain. Now understand the 12 rules to use your brain to its fullest potential.

No matter what technologies and business strategies you use in your career, your success actually depends on one crucial, unique, and irreplaceable tool:  your brain. 

In our summary of Brain Rules:  12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving and Work, Home, and School, by John Medina, you’ll learn how your brain really works, and how to get the most out of it.

Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant. He is an affiliate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University.

In this summary, you will discover:

• How you can use exercise to improve your brainpower;
• How every brain is wired differently;
• Why minds wander after 10 minutes and the changes you can make in your next presentation to keep your audience’s attention focused on you;
• How sleep is tightly linked to the ability to learn; and
• How you can improve your ability to learn and to remember.

If you want to understand how to use your brain to its fullest potential, you must learn the 12 rules we will explore in this summary.