![]() ![]() To your brain, thinking about cleaning your room feels like the start of a stomachache. I’m a professor!ĭo you groan when your mom or dad tells you to clean, or practice an instrument, or start your homework? This is because when you think about opening that book, or cleaning up, it actually hurts- researchers can see an area of the brain that experiences pain, the insular cortex, begin to light up. So, we need a pinball machine, a headful of friendly zombies, and a plastic tomato? Who knew? Stay with me. But it’s nice to imagine an army of tiny zombies up there, working hard for you. I don’t mean you have real zombies inside your skull. ![]() Your inner zombies are going to help you learn. Procrastination is the enemy of high-quality learning. If you run out of time, you not only can’t build learning structures, you also spend energy worrying about it. ![]() As you will learn later, time and practice work together to help you cement new ideas into your brain. If you procrastinate, you often run out of time. Why would you do something you don’t feel like doing? Especially if you know it’s going to be hard? Why study on Monday when the test is not until Friday? Won’t you forget it by then any way? Procrastination can be a natural thing to do. It is a problem for many students (and adults!) and gets in the way of good learning. (It’s pronounced “pro-KRAS-ti-NAY-shun.” The last part rhymes with “nation.”) Procrastination means putting things off until later. I want to tell you about procrastination. I’m going to show you how even a plastic tomato can be good for you. spoiler alert: It didn’t end well for them.Īrsenic is bad for us, but tomatoes are good, right? They are full of healthy nutrients. We’ll tell you later how the story of the arsenic eaters ended, but. ![]()
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