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CHAPTER 3
1. Tara Swart, The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life (New York: Vermilion, 2019).
2. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, “The Human Brain in Numbers: a Linearly Scaled-up Primate Brain,” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 9, 2009, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/.
3. Ferris Jabr, “Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers’ Brains Grow to Navigate London’s Streets,” Scientific American, December 8, 2011, www.scientificamerican.com/article/london-taxi-memory/.
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CHAPTER 4
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2. Francesco Cirillo, “The Pomodoro Technique,” Cirillo Consulting, francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique.
3. Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly 2, no. 8 (June 1858): 502.
CHAPTER 5
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2. Jan Bruce, et al., Mequilibrium: 14 Days to Cooler, Calmer, and Happier (New York: Harmony Books, 2015), 95.
3. Jennice Vilhauer, “4 Ways to Stop Beating Yourself Up, Once and For All,” Psychology Today, March 18, 2016, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-forward/201603/4-ways-stop-beatin....
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CHAPTER 6
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4. Ibid.
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6. Ibid.
7. Brian Roche, “Your IQ May Not Have Changed, But Are You Any Smarter?”, Psychology Today, July 15, 2014, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/iq-boot-camp/201407/your-iq-may-not-have....
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12. Eric Westervelt, “Sorry, Lucy: The Myth of the Misused Brain Is 100 Percent False,” NPR, July 27, 2014, https://www.npr.org/2014/07/27/335868132/sorry-lucy-the-myth-of-the-misu....
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16. Thomas G. West, In the Mind’s Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009).
17. Ibid.
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20. 99U, “Beth Comstock: Make Heroes Out of the Failures,” video, 12:40, September 3, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpIlOF-UzA.
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26. Jim Carrey, commencement address, Maharishi International University,