• The brain's attentional "spotlight" can focus on only one thing at a time: no multitasking.
• We are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail.
• Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.
• Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.

• The brain is in a constant state of tension between cells and chemicals that try to put you to sleep and cells and chemicals that try to keep you awake.
• The neurons of your brain show vigorous rhytmical activity when your're asleep--perhaps replaying what you learned that day.
• People vary in how much sleep they need and when they prefer to get it, but the biological drive for an afternoon nap is universdal.
• Loss of sleep hurts atttention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning, and even motor dexterity.

• Affekt = eccitazione, passione
• Stimmung = stato d'animo, disposizione di spirito, umore, ambiente, atmosfera, clima, opinione pubblica, accordatura
• Wut = furia, furore, ira, rabbia
• Trauer = tristezza, lutto
• Melancholie = malinconia
• Gefühl = sentimento, emozione, sensazione, senso, tatto
• Gemüt = animo, sentimento, indole
• Erregung = eccitazione, agitazione
• Sinnlichkeit = sensualità
• Gelassenheit = calma
• Seele = anima, animo, sentimento, cuore
• Mut = coraggio
• Trieb = istinto, pulsione, impulso, inclinazione, tendenza
• Geist = spirito, ingegno, anima, fantasma
• Sehnsucht = desiderio, brama, nostalgia
• Sympathie = simpatia
• Schwermut = malinconia
• Sucht = assuefazione, mania, smania
• Lust = gioia, piacere, voglia, desiderio
• Begierde = desiderio, voglia, brama, sete
• Sensibilität = sensibilità
• Innerlichkeit = interiorità, profondità di sentimenti
• phlegmatisch= flemmatico
• Leidenschaft = passione
• Empfindung = sensazione, sentimento
• Emotionell = emozionale, emotivo
• Affektivität = affettività
• Abscheu = ribrezzo, ripugnanza, repulsione
• Glück = fortuna, successo, felicità
• Angst = paura, timore, ansia

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