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Posts Tagged ‘Learning’

How Your Brain Reacts to Mistakes Depends on Your Mindset

One of the most powerful shifts in your mindset is thinking of mistakes as learning opportunities. Recently a study published in Psychological Science tried to investigate how this attitude affects our brains. Researchers first hooked up participants to an EEG in order to record electrical activity in the brain. They then had participants perform a [...]

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High Brainwaves Critical for Learning and Memory

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Self-Talk Can Improve Sports Performance

A recent meta-analysis of 32 psychology study confirms that how athletes use their self-talk greatly influences their sports performance.

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Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity

Mindfulness provides us a way to self-direct our experiences in the moment, and thereby self-direct ongoing neuroplasticity in the brain.

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Power of the Pen: 5 Scientific Reasons to Be Writing More

The Power of the Pen: 5 Scientific Reasons to Write More

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