Override Your Brain’s Default for Ruts
If you find yourself protecting your turf or stuck in a rut with boring routines, you’ve likely defaulted to your basal ganglia. No need to stay there, once you see how your brain can create neuron...
View ArticleTarget Working Memory to Learn New Skills
Have you slammed onto ruts or slipped into routines lately? To learn new technology, or accept an invitation to propose an innovation takes more working memory, and relies less on traditions or...
View ArticleQuestions to Leap Over Life’s Ruts
Most people hope at some time or another to move from where they stand at that moment, into a better place for their future. Especially if following predictable schedules is holding back personal...
View ArticleOde to Innovation Brainpower!
Have you every thought of practicing to be a genius at anything? Several gurus in intelligence, claim that endurance and hard work get higher grades than raw intelligence scores from IQ tests. Do you...
View Article#16 of 25 Writer Brain Boosters
16. Outsource More Memory Research and jot down a few new facts about your topic. It’s a bit like outsourcing unfamiliar facts and figures. This frees up your working memory to focus on integrating...
View ArticleBrain Based Tasks for Older Learners
While we now know that students retain less from lectures, we question how to cultivate brain based cultures that trigger observable and impressive growth. Good news! It’s actually easier than most...
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To Know is to Apply – Roundtable 5
When was the last time you learned a thing in a way you could apply it to improve your situation? The evidence of learning is in its application! When we give talks, lecture ideas, tell information or...
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Where is the Love?
A grace mindset engages agape love combined with working memory to help us heal in broken or conflicted situations. How so? We share sentiments with Whitney Houston’s hope-filled tunes such as, “I...
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Cookies, Carrots and Clutter
Given the choice do you choose to snack on cookies over carrots? If so, you’ll likely be surprised by stressful effects this choice has on your brain. We now know for instance, that our responses to...
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