Monday, November 02, 2009

The Brain: Success versus Failure

According to a Headlines posting in Scientific American Mind (November-December 2009), the amount of dopamine released in the brain when we've had success completing a task improves neural processing and encourages similar or better performance when repeating the task. "Success has a much greater influence on the brain than failure."

However, as the research notes, (information which is very consistent with others like that discussed in Mindset), this means we need to pay more attention to failures, "consciously encouraging our brain to learn a little more from failure than it would be default."

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