Brain Fitness Newsletter: November Edition

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 30, 2007 |

Here you are have the Month­ly Digest of our Most Pop­u­lar Blog Posts. You can con­sid­er it your month­ly Brain Exer­cise Mag­a­zine. (Also, remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive our RSS feed, check our Top­ics sec­tion, and sub­scribe to our month­ly newslet­ter at the top of this page if you want to receive this…

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Carol Dweck on Mindsets, Learning and Intelligence

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 27, 2007 |

Just came across an excel­lent Inter­view with Car­ol Dweck. Thank you Coert!  Car­ol Dweck is a pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­o­gy at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. Last year she pub­lished a great book called Mind­set: The New Psy­chol­o­gy of Suc­cess, where she elab­o­rates on her (and ours) key mes­sage: the way you view your own intel­li­gence large­ly deter­mines how it…

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Use It or Lose It, and Cells that Fire together Wire together

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 25, 2007 |

Every­one has heard of “Use It or Lose It.” Now…what is “It”? Last week I gave a talk at the Ital­ian Con­sulate in San Fran­cis­co, and one of the areas atten­dees seemed to enjoy the most was learn­ing about what our brains are and how they work, peak­ing into the “black box” of our minds. With­out understanding…

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Your Haiku, please?

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 21, 2007 |

In our Top 50 Brain Teasers post, we con­clud­ed with the chal­lenge: #50. Can you write a haiku describ­ing your expe­ri­ence doing some of the pre­vi­ous teasers? The sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need to rhyme, con­tain­ing 5,7, and 5 syl­la­bles. You can leave your haiku as a com­ment for extra points… There…

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