Benefits of learning

1. Benefits of learning • Set and achieve goals • Break and make habits • Communicate effectively • Understand and resolve conflict

2. Brain Gems • Learn • Think • Decide • Decode

3. 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

4. Mind Tip OVERRIDE with SELF-AWARENESS

5. Reflective Reflective Reactive Reactive

6. "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

7. Self-awareness Brains On Purpose SDN Attention

8. Increased ability to: • Prioritize and manage tasks and goals • Focus on specific information • Stay alert to the environment

9. 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

10. Mind Gem Self-awareness, the observing self