"The more touch human babies received, the higher their neurogenesis rate was when they grew up."
My quotes from the entire Peak Productivity book series.
Explore insightful quotes curated from the entire Peak Productivity book series. Delve into a collection of wisdom and practical advice distilled from these works, offering guidance on maximizing efficiency, optimizing workflows, and achieving peak performance.
"Incentivizing exemplary behavior can hamper children’s motivation. The children begin to use the award as the anchor to their motivation, instead of building it intrinsically. When the reward is absent, so is their motivation."
"When your brain is tired, and the prefrontal cortex is not very active as you are winding down, your brain suppresses its reasoning part. This spurs creativity."
"An aha moment, by its nature, is sudden, unexpected, and unpredictable. Its encounter can never be planned or deliberated."
"The less effort needed to recall the information, the weaker the neuronal connections, and the more difficult it is to recall next time."
"The experience of déjà vu ensues when you cannot completely recall the event from your long-term memory. Those fragmented memories give you the feeling of familiarity that makes you believe that you have reexperienced the same event in the past."
"Building more neuronal connections to the subject that you are learning solidifies the information and helps it persist longer."
"The production of the ghrelin hormone decreases during sleep, which explains why you are not hungry while sleeping."