12 Responses

1. 131

   Maybe I’m missing something but 131 slides to tell us pictures are more interesting than words?

    

2. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, H

   I thought it was quite a feat to have condensed the key concepts of 3 of Medina’s book chapters (which is a total of 66 pages) into a sequence of images that can be absorbed in 5 minutes.

   The rules and chapters covered are:

   1. Exercise boosts brain power.

   4. We don’t pay attention to boring things

   10. Vision trumps all other senses.

   For anyone intrigued enough the book upon which Reynolds based this material can be found here at Amazon:

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brain-Rules-Principles-Surviving-Thriving/dp/0979777747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299833009&sr=8-1

    

3. Ironic

   I just thought it was quite ironic that a book about "death by powerpoint" was summarised using 131 slides. 

4. What book Steve?

   "I just thought it was quite ironic that a book about "death by powerpoint" was summarised using 131 slides."

   What book Steve?

5. Missing?

   Maybe I’m missing something else?

   "One of the best books I have read this year is Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School"

   12 principles does not and can never = 131 slides? Especialy when the subject matter is "Brain Rules"!

6. OK Steve, it didn’t work for you.

   Medina’s book is not about ‘Death by PowerPoint’ it’s about how the brain functions. Never the less I guess your reaction shows how we are all different.

    

   66 pages of text into 131 visual images, it worked for me.

7. It worked for you

   And thats the challenge we all face every day Garry…

   What works for one does not mean it will work for all.

   For me it was 131 slides to state the bleedin obvious and I just wanted it to end.

    

8. “What works for one does not mean it will work for all.”

   Absolutely!

9. Brain rules

    Thanks Garry, it seemed to work for me and confirmed my thoughts on a number of presentations I had seen. I suppose the main

   learning we need to take from this is that whatever new technology comes along we need to be aware that overuse will bring about boredom. I remember before powerpoint, you had ‘death by OHP’, the same applies here. Though I must admit it was the frog that made the biggest impression, in fact I would love to know where I could get a toy one!

10. Frog

    Hi Violyn

    The frog is available from photo publishers such as…

    http://www.superstock.co.uk/stock-photography/wide-eyed#BrandName=&Srch_Title=&pagenum=1&cat=&tag=results&BrandLogo=&fotog=&txtkeys1=frog&chkRMFilter=4&chkRFFilter=2&lstImageType=1&Stores=1&Stores=64&Stores=4&Stores=8&Stores=2&chkorientsh=1&chkorientsv=2&chkbw=2&chkcolor=1&pixperpage=100

    Depending on useage can be quite innexpensive or you will need to win the lotto next week.

11. …my concern is that the

    ,,,frog seems to almost always appear inside a cooking pot of some sort!

    Rus

     

12. Ancestry
    Reynolds probably has French Ancestry