Seven Billion Ways to Learn Anything – Brain Biology Geek Alert with JW Wilson

Your Brain ON Positive with Jackie Simmons

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Join Jackie and the inimitable JW Wilson, for Part 2 of their discussion as they tackle the tough side of learning and how our educational system is challenged to support it. JW is the author of Cracking the Learning Code and Founder and Executive Director of The Learning Code Institute.

This episode is packed . . . and we mean PACKED with content about how easy learning can be and how to fix what gets in the way.

Spoiler Alert: The educational system is not the bad guy and you’ll be surprised what is.

Grab your notebook on this one. There’ll be several things you’ll want to write down and remember, we guarantee it:

[04:15] What drives learning?

[05:30] The natural reward system in the brain

[07:00] What’s taught us to be miserable, inefficient, and poor?

[09:50] Where energy flows

[13:50] Personal setpoints matter

[16:05] How “education” can limit who we are

[17:30] Kids in boxes . . .

[19:15] Toxic neurobiology

[20:20] When your biology isn’t happy, you act out

[22:35] What creates educational dysfunction

[23:35] [story time] The Animal School

[27:05] The biochemistry of suicide

[29:50] What we’re not asking our children

[31:05] What really makes learning “stick”

[36:30] The school–stress connection to health

[41:50] Emotions over biology

[51:05] The physical structure of Knowledge

[54:10] Embracing simplicity

[55:00] Reactivating the biochemistry of learning

[57:00] We’ve all been sold a bill of goods

Links:

The Learning Code Institute: https://www.thelearningcode.com/

Book: Cracking the Learning Code: The Science That is Transforming How the World Learns, Motivates, and Changes Behaviors

Other Links mentioned:

Website: JackieSimmons.com

Book: Make It A Great Day: The Choice is Yours

Website: The Teen Suicide Prevention Society

Why Not Work Book: http://www.WhyNotWorkBook.com

Movie: You Can’t Take it With You with Jimmy Stewart

Enjoy!

About Jackie:

Jackie Simmons writes and speaks on the leading-edge thinking around mindset, money, and the neuroscience that drives success.

Jackie believes it’s our ability to remain calm and focused in the face of change and chaos that sets us apart as leaders. Today, we’re dealing with more change and chaos than any other generation.

It’s taking a toll and Jackie’s not willing for us to pay it any longer.

Jackie uses the lessons learned from her own and her clients’ success stories to create programs that help you build the twin muscles of emotional resilience and emotional intelligence so that your positivity shines like a beacon, reminding the world that it’s safe to stay optimistic.

TEDx Speaker, Multiple International Best-selling Author, Mother to Three Girls, Grandmother to Four Boys, and Partner to the Bravest, Most Loyal Man in the World.

https://jackiesimmons.info/

https://sjaeventhub.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/yourbrainonpositive

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