Paying attention to quiet signals significantly increases insight. You have a lot more insights when you frame something slightly positively than slightly negatively. Don't look at your emales first thing in the morning, or when you go for a run, or befor you go into sleep. The final necessary condition is not to work directly on solving the problem. Taraing to solve a problem doesn't give you an insight. You've got o actually plug the question in and let it go.
What’s going on in our brains when we have breakthroughs? Why do some of our most basic work habits and norms exhaust our minds rather than light them up? If feedback is essential for cognitive development, why can it freak us out and set our teeth on edge?
These are some of the big questions David Rock, CEO and co-founder of the Neuroleadership Institute, ponders all of the time. David believes that if we can increase our ability to think well at work (since, spoiler alert, most work is thinking work) and bake more neuroscience into the workplace, we can be more effective, build better habits, and have better interactions within our teams and organizations.
In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans ask David all about how brains behave at work.
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