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This newsletter will change your life, if you let it. Welcome to One Brain At A Time, an Action Your Potential Newsletter. Every Friday actionable neuroscientists Andy Feist and Adam Wright break neuroscience down into actionable steps for immediate use
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Gaming: The Enemy, or Our Friend? (opens the original)
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One quick note before we start: this newsletter lands the same week as our brand-new podcast episode on exactly this topic. If you want to hear Andy and me go even deeper on the neuroscience of gaming, give it a watch here:To Game, or not to game?!Society’s relationship with the video game industry is complicated and nuanced. I think of Stranger Things season 4. Hellfire Club! GET TO THE POINT! I WILL…Season 4 of Stranger Things introduced us
Revolutionising Primary School Education (opens the original)
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It’s the mission.You might’ve seen our slogan, ‘changing the world one brain at a time’ – hell, it’s literally the name of this newsletter and its sister podcast.If you discovered this newsletter and podcast through social media, you may not be aware that the company that produces them also runs neuroscience-informed programmes spanning business and education.The heart of our work at Action Your Potential is in schools – transforming education and outcomes for students, parents and teachers alik
Routine vs Flexibility (opens the original)
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Being kind to ourselvesBefore every Substack, Adam and myself ask ourselves a simple question: what have we been thinking about this week? After I eliminated writing about the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy, or talking about my sensational lunch (I think about those things literally 92.76% of the time), I decided to write about the importance of flexibility in our lives.At Action Your Potential, we constantly talk about the importance of routines and positive habit formation. But it got us
The Oncoming Storm (opens the original)
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Here we go againI come from a family of educators: my dad, an ex deputy head and current teacher of trainee teachers; my mum, a primary school teacher; and lastly, my brother, an associate lecturer. It continues – my partner is a secondary school teacher. I have grown up with a wonderful behind-the-curtains perspective on the education system.Right about now, at time of release, 2nd September 2026, teachers and students alike are beginning the yearly educational conquest – the oncoming storm, fo
The Pleasure-Pain Seesaw (opens the original)
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“It’s all about balance.”This is a refrain you’ve likely heard a lot, and hopefully, come to discover is true.Whether we’re talking about balancing work and life, or fitness and rest, or time with friends and family and time solo, we all know that too much of anything is not great for us.Today I want to take the metaphorical bonnet off your brain and look into WHY the brain requires balance, how to effectively create it and what happens if we don’t.The Pleasure Pain Seesaw.Your brain processes t
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