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Encourage Your Brain: Practice NOT Avoiding
My daughter visited me this past week and she brought her talents along with her. And those talents are her organizational genes. She loves organizing and winnowing, letting go of things that no longer serve their original purpose, creating environments that feel...
Encourage Your Brain: Getting Unstuck
In one of our leadership coaching classes, we had a fascinating discussion about getting to the root of a client’s challenge. I had to laugh, because that same day, I joined my husband in digging a trench in our backyard so that we could lay an electrical line out to...
Encourage Your Brain: Your Brain is on a Budget
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, is the author of 7½ Lessons About the Brain. She offers some eyebrow-raising ideas in the book, and it’s a fun, fast, fascinating read—I highly recommended it. An important point she makes early in the...
Encourage Your Brain: Suit Up
A friend of mine is taking a masterclass on fashion and came across an interesting piece of research about what happens in the brain when we wear certain types of attire. A researcher had subjects wear a white coat that they believed...
Encourage Your Brain: Avoid the Super-Chicken Syndrome
William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who was studying what would increase the egg-laying productivity of chickens. His hypothesis was that by continually breeding the Super-Chickens of the flock generation after generation, one would...
Encourage Your Brain: An “Eye-Opening” Brain Hack to Get You Going
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could peek inside people’s brains? Well, in a way, it turns out we actually can. And that’s because our EYES are actually a part of our brains. During development in utero, our eyes get squeezed outside of...
Encourage Your Brain: How to Get People to Cooperate
There are several studies on group cooperation that showed that people can be twice as likely to be helpful to another when they’ve experienced some level of behavioral synchrony. Behavioral synchrony simply means that our behaviors match...
Encourage Your Brain: Abusing Self-Care
We’re familiar with the concept of self-care—often made clear by the airplane oxygen-mask metaphor, making sure we put our oxygen-mask on first so that we can stay alive to help others. I am ALL FOR self-care. It’s critical. What I am NOT...
Encourage Your Brain: Show me your hands!
These days with so many Zoom calls, most of us only see each other from the shoulders or neck up. And that has some interesting and unintended consequences for our ability to connect with one another. It turns out that the brain gives 12.5...
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