Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you’re having to pay attention to and you’re switching between each one.

The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sense of reward.

Visualizing the process actually increases productivity. The neuroscience shows that you see five times more brain areas activated when you picture the process than when you picture a glorious outcome.

If you do just a 5 minute meditation right before you need to recall something, you can get up to a 75% improvement in your recall.