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“Mind Well” initiative, UCLA, 49
mineral hardness scale, 160
mini-testing, chunking, 119–20
MIT, 134
Miyoshi, Dina, 178
mnemonics, 160, 175–76
“mobile” phone invention, 112
monkeys in a benzene ring, 171, 171
months (thirty-one days), 159, 159
mornings and recall, 165, 182
motivating technique (mental contrasting), 99–100, 108, 258
multiple-choice tests, 246
multitasking caution, 106, 108, 211, 212
muscle memory, 173, 177, 178–79, 181, 182
musicians, 116
myelin sheaths, 195

names of people, memory, 174
negative feelings, dealing with, 127, 139, 140
negative self-talk, 250
neural structures, building
chunking, 52–53, 53, 54, 54–55, 67, 67, 68, 69, 71, 78, 93, 113, 121
creativity and learning, 32, 38, 38, 45, 46
easy does it, 11, 14–15, 16, 18, 24
memory, 159, 161, 162, 170, 173, 179, 182
sculpting your brain, 195–96, 197, 198
See also brain
neurological cravings, 93, 98
New Habit, The (Fiore), 129
Newman, Forrest, 102, 157
Newport, Cal, 134
Newton’s second law, 158, 158, 159, 172, 204
New York Times, 223
nightly, creating to-do list, 130, 131, 152
Nobel Prize winners, 194, 202, 206, 207, 219, 252
Noble Savages (Chagnon), 223
Noesner, Gary, 147
Nolta, Kathleen, 208
“not my fault,” 151–52, 153, 154
Noui-Mehidi, Nadia, 27, 27–28
“Now You Try!” challenges, 11, 23, 23, 24–25, 33, 39, 41, 44, 65, 68, 101, 107, 121, 135, 141, 152, 162,
175, 181, 209, 221
numbers, associating with events, 175

Oakley, Barbara, xix–xx, 1–8, 3
See also math and science, learning
“obvious,” struggling with, 219–20, 221–22
occipital lobe, 52
“Oh, Them Golden Slippers,” 163