The aim of the laughter booth is to help students challenge themselves while having fun at the same time. During our talk with Dr. Boyd, she had mentioned a few times how important challenging ourselves is to promote neuroplasticity. Trying to complete the tasks at the booth (e.g. Try Not To Laugh Challenge), every student will be able to challenge themselves in one way or another. Plus, the booth will spread laughter around the campus to uplift the mood and will encourage students to communicate with each other.

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself is a guide for motivational self-talk and positive thinking. Its author, Dr. Shad Helmstetter, is a psychologist and behavioral researcher in areas related to individual programming. This book serves as the primary non-fiction reading material for this course.

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By Dr. Norman Doidge

THE BRAIN CAN CHANGE ITSELF. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain’s basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging. The brain is not, as was thought, like a machine, or “hardwired” like a computer. Neuroplasticity not only gives hope to those with mental limitations, or what was thought to be incurable brain damage, but expands our understanding of the healthy brain and the resilience of human nature. Norman Doidge, MD, a psychiatrist and researcher, set out to investigate neuroplasticity and met both the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they’ve transformed. The result is this book, a riveting collection of case histories detailing the astonishing progress of people whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless. 

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From the publisher:

"With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the workings of matter and force, material science, the lessons of art and architectural history, and the influence of architecture on culture (and vice versa). Reiser+Umemoto see architectural design as a series of problem situations, and each chapter is an argument devoted to a specific condition or case."

The bullet journal is a method for organizing thoughts and actions. They take the form of written text, often in a list format, accompanied with sketches or charts/diagrams that relate to the bullet journal content. Although bullet journals are a practical life organization tool, they allow for creative self-expression.

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