THE HUMAN MIND
 
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LISTENING EXERCISE
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS :

1. We don’t realize it but our mind doesn’t stop doing what? (Learning about the world about us)

2. By learning how our mind works we can improve our learning power and …? (Unlock our true potential)

3. Generally speaking what’s Mrs Alison Ross main goal? (Take a new challenge and leave her old life behind)

4. What can you say about her studies? (she left school at 17)

5. Correct this sentence: She was perfectly happy and fulfilled being a housewife. (She had a niggling wish at the back of her mind to become a midwife)

6. Give the main reason for her to make that move. (It’s so nice to be involved in such special time of people’s lives)

7. How did she feel when she started it? (Very doubtful, she didn’t know if she could cope with it)

8. What is the process of learning about as far as our brain is concerned? (It is about creating and strengthening pathways for electrical signal through the neurones.)

9.  What’s in common between making a bridge to cross a ravine and learning something? (The first steps are the hardest ones)

10. When can we say we have learned to do something? (When it becomes effortless after having done it repeatedly)


 

 

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