ABOUT YOUR BRAIN Lesson #7 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

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  I welcome to stem stories, Miss Ewing.

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  Open to Session seven on our work on understanding our

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  brain. And I'm guessing you're probably asking.

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  All right, what about my brain?

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  All of this work is about my brain.

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  It's about your brain.

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  So what does it all mean for you?

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  Well, we're gonna go kind of do a quick review

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  or a review of everything that we've learned so far,

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  and then in session eight were actually gonna put it

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  all together.

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  So we've learned a lot about the interior of our

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  brain, all the different parts, the different components and what

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  they all do for us, and they're all super important.

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  But when it comes down to learning, and that may

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  be in the classroom or outside the classroom, the three

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  most important parts that we think about our hippocampus, which

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  helps a store, those long term memories.

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  Once we have made a memory of learning or understanding

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  something, that's where it goes, and that's where it's stored.

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  So once it's in there, we don't lose it unless

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  there's accidents or sometimes disease.

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  Very rarely do we lose that part of our long

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  term memory.

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  And then there's the front part of our brain.

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  So you know when people are saying they're thinking they

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  point to their head like this?

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  Well, there's a reason for it because that's where all

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  are thinking happens in the frontal lobe.

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  That's where we learn to plan.

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  That's how we pay attention.

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  That's how we get to move our specific, specific body

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  parts. And most importantly, it's the pre frontal frontal lobe.

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  That's the most important part of the frontal lobe that

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  is the key component for learning.

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  And then we learned about the firemen are Milon arm

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  Island sheet that grows around the, uh, accent that actually

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  controls are neurons.

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  Remember, if it doesn't have the Meilin chief, are neuron

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  zehr doing all this crazy stuff?

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  My islands, like our fireman that holds that hose tight

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  to make sure our neurons are firing properly and we've

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  developed neuron arm island.

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  We always air developing Milon as we're learning.

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  The more we learn the more than my island sheath

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  we develop and we can also remember we'll talk about

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  this in a little bit that even though we've learned

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  something, we can always unlearn it and relearn it, and

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  then we've got them Magdala, now a member of Magdala,

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  is that great place where all the information goes into

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  our brain, and that of megillah pushes it out to

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  where it needs to go.

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  But we also know that the Amiga is the reason

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  that sometimes when we're frightened or fearful or we don't

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  like a situation or we're struggling, we go into flight

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  freeze or fight mode, and we also learned that we

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  can actually re program are a megillah to keep it

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  from going into a Magdala hijack.

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  We don't want it to go into middle a hijack.

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  And sometimes we have to re learn and develop new

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  Milen to learn how to deal or actually understand our

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  own brain and work with it.

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  And then this.

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  My favorite part the hormones that are brain releases.

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  The most important ones are dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin.

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  All of them make us feel really, really good.

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  And when we're learning things he has, sometimes we don't

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  have those hormones releasing in our brains cause we're struggling.

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  But when we get to that point where it starts

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  to make make sense and all of a sudden we

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  feel really good, that's because we're releasing dopamine, oxytocin and

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  serotonin. But we can actually program our brain by looking

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  at some pictures that make us super happy.

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  And maybe it's a picture of your family or your

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  favorite toy.

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  Or like for me.

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  I still have my teddy bear from when I was

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  a little kid, and when I picked that teddy bear

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  up, I release Aton of dopamine and oxytocin and that

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  actually prepares my brain toe.

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  Actually wanna learn?

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  It's a really cool trick, especially to get us out

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  of a middle.

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  A hijack.

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  Now remember, pictures of our brains with hands, feet and

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  eyes is not accurate.

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  Our brain does not have eyes, hands and feet, so

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  I used them for illustration purposes.

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  But they are not scientifically correct, but we know are

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  we learned about neural plasticity.

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  Our brain is like a muscle, although it's an organ,

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  not a muscle, and it's Moldable and we can change

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  the way our brain works.

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  So if we're used to going into a middle hijack,

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  especially at school, we can actually learn things to create

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  new Milen to react and act differently.

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  We actually have control over our brain, even though our

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  brain does a lot of things that we don't know

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  their No, it's doing like making our food digests and

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  making us breathing or heartbeat well.

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  We can also help tell the brain to do things

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  that we want.

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  And remember, there's no such thing as a bad brain.

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  Nobody has a bad brain, just like nobody's a bad

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  person, all right, But sometimes we need to help our

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  brain because we've learned things we've created certain Milon that

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  makes us think a certain way.

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  And we just kind of rethink our thinking.

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  And one ways we learned that is, once we've learned

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  something, we can unlearn it.

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  We pull that learning apart and relearn it by putting

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  it together differently and making our brain stronger.

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  Now we can't work our brain like a muscle.

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  We don't make our brain stronger and that way, but

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  we can make our brains stronger by using the tools

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  that we learn toe actually control our brain so that

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  we can actually have control over our own bodies.

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  And that sometimes takes practice in some learning.

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  And one of the ways we did learn that is,

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  through our five easy steps of brain.

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  Hi, pop.

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  Uh, diagnosis and you can actually use this to change

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  the behavior.

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  And then it's really simple.

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  Does it cost anything?

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  All it takes is about maybe five minutes.

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  And maybe that's the way you start your day.

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  Or maybe you teach your teacher about this steps and

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  they incorporate that into the classroom.

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  That would be amazing.

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  And then one of the most important things we learned

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  about his sleep, You know, we care about it all

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  the time, but we learn why sleep is so important

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  for our brain.

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  And there's some really big side effects of not getting

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  enough sleep or what we call sleep dep oration.

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  If you're not getting enough sleep, you're actually punishing your

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  body, and your body's gonna be doing things that you

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  don't actually get control over because your brain is tired

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  when the most important things is in order to have

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  a great day at school or anywhere that you're at,

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  your brain has to be rested and your brain actually

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  isn't going to develop the way it needs to.

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  If you're not getting enough sleep.

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  And I know you're probably thinking, Mr Ewing, I can't

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  sleep nine hours a night.

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  Yeah, you can, and you probably need to do it

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  more often.

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  I know I do remember one of the most important

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  side effects of having a healthy, rested brain.

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  You look better who doesn't want to look their best,

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  and by doing that, you're gonna need to get some

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  sleep. It also helps you perform and feel great and

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  you'll learn more, and actually you'll have more fun during

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  the day.

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  Brain is rested, and then we learned about soft skills

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  and you guys, if you're in my class or you're

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  here, you know that I'm super big on helping students

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  develop the self skills.

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  And maybe some people see that is me being a

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  really tough teacher or that I'm coming down hard on

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  a particular student or students.

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  It's mainly because I want to see you be successful,

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  and I want to make sure that you create these

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  soft skills.

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  One of the most important soft skill that you can

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  develop in school is that when you walk into a

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  classroom, you sit down and you're ready to go.

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  Don't sit around and wait for your teacher to tell

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  you to pay attention or sit down or it's time

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  to get going, sit down and be ready to go.

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  That's part of taking responsibility.

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  But listening skill, self control that falls into self control,

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  being positive, having empathy for other students in the students

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  and surrounding around you.

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  I love this last one down there, a sense of

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  humor. Mr.

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  Ewing was to have a sense of humor.

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  I know when it's time to be serious, but I

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  also like to have fun while I'm learning.

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  And here's one of the most important reasons we need

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  to develop those soft skills.

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  And that's why it's so critically important for me to

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  help you develop those soft skills.

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  I can teach you them, but you have to embrace

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  it. And I love this.

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  That 92% of the people that hire new employees say

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  that soft skills are actually more important than hard skills,

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  hard skills.

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  Remember those things that we can actually learn in school,

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  like math and science and things that we can actually

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  say? I know how to do this.

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  This is a skill that I have because you've learned

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  it or you've practices.

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  But those soft skills air super important, too, and that

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  I love that almost 90% of recruiters people that hire,

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  say that people that they had to let go from

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  positions, it's usually because they don't have those soft skills

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  and soft skills or super important and how we interact

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  with other people we work with.

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  There's almost very few jobs that you might have in

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  the world.

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  They isn't going to require you to work with other

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  people, so soft skills are crazy important.

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  If you've got them, you master them, you will blow

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  your job out of the water.

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  You will do so well in life by having those

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  soft skills.

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  You need those hard skills.

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  But you need those soft skills actually, more than you

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  do the others.

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  So what does that mean for us?

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  We gotta be able to put all these pieces together,

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  and I'm not saying you have to do it right

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  now. But take a small piece of those and understand

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  start to understand how that brain of yours is working

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  and what we can do to help our brain work

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  better, because the better our brain works better we are,

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  and the better you are going to be in life

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  and more successful it is super important that we work

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  on all these parts of our brain because you can

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  do this.

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  We can do this.

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  And you got this.