#thinking

Steven R. Campbell

The Story of Susie

When I taught math at the University of San Francisco, I’ll never forget Susie. She approached me after the first day of class to inform...

Steven R. Campbell

The Next Time

So just what is this thing called “self-talk?” Psychologists refer to it as that conversation you are having with yourself all day long....

Steven R. Campbell

The Job of the Your Unconscious Mind

You are not aware of 99.9999% of what your nervous system is doing. It not only keeps your brain working, it keeps the rest of your body...

Steven R. Campbell

Learning Takes Time

We have discovered your brain learns by recording images and connecting them together to form patterns. So, if I am learning about a...

Steven R. Campbell

How Our Brain Learns

At my fifty year high school reunion, I remember seeing Mickey, my dear friend walking up the stairs of the bleachers on the opposite...

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Our Brain Believes What We Tell It

When Mary Knight walked into Dr. Monroe’s office back in 1932, she was bright and excited; her red hair neatly pinned in a bun. She had...

Steven R. Campbell

Self-Image: Change How You See Yourself

The scientific community pretty much agrees the human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. In fact, the primary...

Steven R. Campbell

The Reason Most of Our Resolutions Usually Don’t Work!

The explosion of computers in the past fifty years has made it very chic to equate the brain with the computer. It has become especially...

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How Much Can Our Brains Grow, Change, and Learn?

The first step is to appreciate the capacity the brain has for learning new things, and frankly…that capacity is beyond our mankind’s...

Steven R. Campbell

Changing the Way We Think - Learn to Think Differently!

Whenever an enthusiastic speaker admonishes me to “Think differently!” at some convention or workshop, I found myself feeling a little...