In this chapter of, The Brain Rules, Medina speaks about the untainted mind of a newly-born child. He speaks of the natural feeling we get to want to explore something. As a baby, we love to touch everything and taste anything, this is because we have an instinct to explore. Even while we grow up we still like to explore new things which is why when we get hurt by something we learn to avoid that which hurt us. This explains the natural instinct to always try something new, because you want to experience it for yourself.

In this chapter of, The Brain Rules, Medina  speaks about the differences between male and female. For example, the differences in sicknesses and disease we develop. Males are more prone to doing drugs, while females have a higher chance of developing depression. Males also use the right side of their brain, which lets them just get the feeling of what is done, while females tend to look into detail whatever it is they experience or do. This explains a lot about gender and the different mentalities that males and females have.

In this chapter of, The Brain Rules, Medina speaks about sensory integration. Sensory integration is pretty much when you use your senses, to understand something. Such as when you see a dog, all your senses come together and draw you a picture so that you can understand it. Sensory integration happens in everyone’s everyday life. I am always listening to music when I do almost anything, especially when i play basketball. I do it so often that whenever i hear a song thats on my playlist i think about basketball. Sensory integration happens to everyone self-conciously.

In this chapter of John Medina’s book, The Brain Rules, Medina speaks about Stress, a natural occurrence in everyone’s lives. Stress prevents you from doing many things, stress affects your ability to make decisions and your cognitive skills, such as memory. I can relate to this chapter as I am always stressed, if it’s not school it’s problems at home or lack of sleep. Stress really hurts the brain in ways that will most likely effect your learning capability as well, as your ability to do simple daily functions. When I am stressed my mood is low, I tend to get confused. Stress can affect you massively and cause you to be unable to do simple tasks, it also effects your heart rate and that can lead to serious health problems.

In this chapter of The Brain Rules, Medina explains how sleep is a huge part of your day. Loss of sleep has major impacts on your ability to do simple actions. Sleep helps you pretty much get through your day, simple tasks such as walking, attention, and even remembering things are affected by sleep. Without sleep, your brain is not working hard, in fact you are most likely making more mistakes throughout the days, whereas someone who gets sleep can apply their mind to whatever comes their way, since it is able to perform tasks relatively easy. I personally lack sleep some days, I tend to fall asleep everywhere, my attention is elsewhere, and my reactions are slow. With this chapter the importance of sleep is now to me pretty significant. I plan to try and get some more sleep, so that i could function better during the day.

In this chapter of The Brain Rules, Medina speaks about how Long-Term Memory, he explains how almost everything we hear everyday, we forget in seconds. Although we forget almost everything we hear, those that do make it through will strengthen over time, which is why it is important that when you want to improve your memory to continue to repeat. By repeating an action or any piece of information it will be etched in your memory.