Making the Most of Your Summer
How should teachers make the most of summer? Avoid decision paralysis, discover herculean motivation, and avoid distraction! Ben and Becky share advice from some giants in education about how to capitalize on every second of summer break!
Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education · Benjamin Kalb, Rebecca Peters
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Show Notes
Episode 041: Making the Most of Your Summer
A compilation episode highlighting advice on how to make the most of your summer, courtesy of the interviews from some of our amazing guests. Don’t let decision fatigue get you down! And share with us your summer plans at #makesomevrainwaves.
Connect with Vrain Waves
Website: vrainwaves.com | Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Links & Show Notes
- Physical exercise (03:53)
- Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina
- Episode with Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Benjamin Hardy blog post in Medium: “Behavior drives motivation.”
- Robyn Jackson: “First you make your habits, then your habits make you.” (VW Episode with Robyn Jackson
- Dan Willingham: “Never rely on willpower when you can make a plan to avoid it.” (VW Episode with Dan Willingham
- Distraction (07:42)
- Episode with Cal Newport
- 30-day digital detox
- Dan Willingham: “Memory is the residue of thought.”
- Making Memories (10:06)
- Episode with Dan Heath: Power of Moments
- Love Reading the Most (11:00)
- Episode with Cornelius Minor
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- The Art of Gathering, by Priya Parker
- Stop Talking, Start Influencing, by Jared Cooney Horvath
- Spark! The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, by John J Ratey
- (720) 900-1741 let us know how you are making the most of your summer! Or tweet us at #makesomevrainwaves