Train Your Brain
Way back in 1989, Glenn Capelli recorded a series of cassette tapes called Train Your Brain — a guide to learning and living with a positive attitude, exploring the inner workings of your magic brain.
Train Your Brain
Way back in 1989 I recorded a series of cassette tapes titled "Train Your Brain". Designed as a guide to learning and living with a positive attitude, they explored the inner workings of your Magic Brain along with techniques to master your mind and enjoy the good living and learning that flows from training your brain.
If you were a song, what song would you be? My theme song is an old tune and it's about giving everything a crack — Do What You Do Do Well. Give it your best shot. What's your theme song? My Way? Brave? Girls Just Wanna Have Fun?
Tape 1: Your Motivation
Some problems in life have a singular correct answer — for instance 1 + 1 = 2. But more of life's problems and answers lie in a variety of partial causes and partial solutions. As you step through the rocky pathways of life and learning, the double helix of thinking and training is to ask the questions How Better & How Else? You might also like to toss in a What If? in order to anticipate potential scenarios and outcomes.
Tape 2: Your Memory
In today's world we have devices to do all our memory work for us. We no longer have to remember phone numbers or even write them down. BUT — your brain needs a challenge! Remember this rap, try to memorise it: "You've gotta actively engage your mind / Bring yourself to learning every time!"
Tape 3: Your Thinking
Our Magic Brain is like a surfer riding waves and our brain waves have five speeds: Gamma, Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. Delta is total unconsciousness. Gamma and Beta are the faster rates associated with higher cognitive states. Too much Gamma may result in anxiety. Alpha and Theta rates are accessible by calming the brain and body through stretching, mindfulness and meditation.
Tape 4: Your Calm
Whenever you're about to train, rub your hands together in gamma expectation and remind yourself that the brain needs a challenge — then calm your chemicals… breathe... focus... flow...
Better • Smarter • Wiser.
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Glenn Capelli is one of Australia's most awarded professional speakers and educators, with a career spanning more than three decades as a thinking and learning expert, author, broadcaster, and creator of the Dynamic Thinking methodology. A two-time State Speaker of the Year, inaugural Educator of the Year (2006), and recipient of the 2007 Nevin Award — the Australian speaking profession's highest honour — he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 1987 for research into better ways of thinking and learning. He is the author of Thinking Caps and co-author of leading educational textbooks, and delivers keynotes, workshops, and coaching programs to audiences in Australia and around the world.