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brain
default settings of brain, 256
designed for extraordinary mental calculations, 6–7
maturity of brain, 195, 199
prefrontal cortex, 12, 12, 14–15, 187
procrastination and, 86–89, 87
retraining the brain, 5–6
sculpting your brain, 193–200
See also math and science, learning; neural structures, building
brainstorming, 229–33, 230
breaks, taking, 28, 30, 33, 34, 38, 47, 113, 114, 133, 134, 135, 258
breathing and test taking, 245, 248, 249
brick wall metaphor, 38, 38, 39, 43, 85, 254
Brisson, Charlene, 98
broad-perspective perceptual disorder of the right hemisphere, 226
Broadwell, Randall, 133
Buddha in Blue Jeans (Sheridan), 127
building a chunk, 56–61, 57, 60, 61, 78, 113–17
burnout, 145

Cajal, Santiago Ramón y, 193–94, 194, 195, 196–97, 200, 205, 206, 213, 215, 219, 221, 255
calculus limits, 169
Calculus Made Easy (Thompson), 169
Cameron, James, 216
cancer, 170
Carlsen, Magnus, 9–10, 10, 37, 185–86, 253
Carson, Ben, 214, 214
Cha, Mary, 142, 142–43
Chagnon, Napoleon, 223
change, possibility of, 88
changing habits, time for, 149
changing your thoughts and life, 195–96
checking your work, 228, 233, 236, 247, 248, 249
chemistry, 170, 171, 171, 176
chess, 9–10, 10, 36–37, 70, 71, 116–17, 146, 184, 185–86, 188, 253
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have To (Beilock), 103, 250
choking vs. chunking, 112–25, 250–51
chunking, 51–82, 112–25
adding a new problem for, 114
avoiding illusions of competence, 51–82, 256, 257
bottom-up chunking process, 59, 60, 61, 61, 70, 79
breaks, taking, 114
building a chunk, 56–61, 57, 60, 61, 78, 113–17
choking vs., 112–25, 250–51
context for, 58–59, 71
creativity and, 66–67, 67
deep chunking, 196–99, 198
defined, 54–55, 57, 57
focused attention, 52–54, 53, 54, 57, 78, 254, 255