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Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

John Medina
Fashion, Keys, Ideas
John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.64, Pear Press

The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.

John Medina
Fashion, Glasses, Ideas

There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior visual exposure to the actress. That neuron does not respond to pictures of Bill Clinton or Halle Berry. Only Jennifer. I used the story to explain the almost ridiculous plasticity of the organ. There is no such thing as Jennifer Aniston in our evolutionary history - she was born in 1969, for heaven's sake - but we are flexible enough to devote an entire cell to her if we have previously encountered her in some fashion.

John Medina
Fashion, Cells, Heaven
Source: bobmorris.biz

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