Benefits%20of%20learning

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Benefits of learning

• Set and achieve goals
• Break and make habits
• Communicate effectively
• Understand and resolve conflict

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Brain Gems

• Learn
• Think
• Decide
• Decode

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Brain Tendencies

• The brain is fuel efficient
• The brain can be sloppy
• The brain seeks patterns
• The brain likes structure/predictability
• The brain sees in-group different from out-group

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Mind Tip

• OVERRIDE with SELF-AWARENESS

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• Reflective Reflective
• Reactive Reactive

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• "We commonly live with a self reduced to its bare
  minimum most of our faculties lie dormant,
  relying on habit and habit knows how to manage
  without them."?
• -Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

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Self-awareness
Brains On Purpose
SDN
Attention
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Increased ability to

• Prioritize and manage tasks and goals
• Focus on specific information
• Stay alert to the environment

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Awareness Practices

• 1) Harness the will
• 2) Instead of resisting substitute
• 3) Mentally rehearse
• 4) Act as if
• 5) Make mental notes
• 6) Meditate
• 7) Make T-notes
• 8) See life as a story
• 9) Affirm personal values
• 10) Increase golden moments of choice
• 11) Double journal
• 12) Me mentor

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Mind Gem

• Self-awareness, the observing self