Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.

shave you mind with occam's razor everyday

I've said my friend, not once, but twice, never trust a preety girl cause darkness waits a mile behind her smile!!

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.