How to make the brain work? We tell in the podcast "Plantain"

The fourth season of the "Plantain" podcast, a joint project of Lifehacker and Yandex Gois called "Route built". In it, we pave the route to the best version of ourselves, and the podcast host Yekaterina Tyurina is assisted in this by business coaches, development consultants, self-realization specialists and doctors of science. It will be interesting, we promise!

In the fourth issue we talked about common mistakes in communication at work and at home: about how not to ask for a pay raise and express your point of view. We also talked about how it stands.

This episode - the final of the season - we will devote to the work of the brain. Let's talk about how to think faster, better memorize new information and be creative.

Doctor of Biological Sciences Vyacheslav Dubynin will help our listeners to develop willpower to learn new Katya.

01:04 - about willpower. Vyacheslav claims that it is not so easy to train her: the body seeks to save energy, therefore work under the pressure of external circumstances will help.

4:28 - how to trick the brain. Katya is interested in whether it is possible to shift the center of pleasure, for example, from communicating with the opposite sex to learning languages. The presenters are discussing whether it is necessary to change the chronotype and lifestyle.

6:56 - what affects the ability to quickly grasp new information. Answer: sports and dancing. And it's better to do it with someone else: attend group workouts, participate in team sports, or move in front of a mirror.

10:32 - how to activate long-term memory. The expert shares a guide for listeners. In addition to learning through association and repetition, the ability to remember information is influenced by the optimal state of the brain. Find out what it is here.

15:28 - about the benefits of multitasking. Creative and common (already familiar) tasks require a different approach.

16:30 - about the capacity of short-term memory and how much information can be learned at the same time.

17:50 - about whether writing notes by hand affects memorization.

18:55 - about stimulating creative thinking. The presenters discuss how to be more productive: in a state of exaltation or fatigue.

22:15 - how to generate cool ideas before bed.

23:51 - about foods that are good for the brain.

24:23 - blitz-poll: summing up the brief results of the issue.

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