Fire Up Your Writing Brain

Many psychologists and neuroscientists posit that human learning and memory takes place within what are called “conceptual networks” of linked ideas.

Train Your Writing Brain: Check Your Learning Retention You’ve just read more than 3,000 words about your brain. To test your memory and retention skills, see if you can answer the following questions without looking back: How many neurons does your brain have? How many of these cells are neurons? How many synapses is the brain capable of forming?

“The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” —Ursula Le Guin

but studies revealed that Googling relieves your brain of its duty to pose a hard question (which, in itself, is highly valuable) and more importantly, it frees your brain of the necessity to search deep into its database for the neuronal connections that will eventually lead to the answer.

Once that list is complete, create another list that details your motivations for working on whatever you’re currently working on.

Women, on the other hand, tend to have more verbal fluency and a greater memory for objects and faces—women are better at remembering where things are and who they’ve seen before.

We have developed what Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, calls “story grammar,” which creates a way for humans to understand how the world works and how to connect with others.

In all the scientific efforts to find magic pills for fighting off dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, only regular, aerobic exercise and active mental engagement show any measurable results.

One of the tasks slow thinking handles is overcoming the impulses that arise from fast thinking. Slow thinking is in charge of self-control.

These books are to be resourced during the programming phase, when you’re inputting as much material as possible for your brilliant brain to file away, adding possibilities for a multitude of new neuronal connections to spark when the real writing begins.