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Sep 22, 2006

The Neuroscience of Leadership and Brain Fitness

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Stephanie West Allen kindly alerted me of her blog on Neu­ro­science and the Legal Pro­fes­sion. There, I found her great post about the beau­ti­ful arti­cle “The Neu­ro­science of Lead­er­ship”, by David Rock and Jef­frey M. Schwartz.

I encour­age you to read the full arti­cle. Many Aha! insights, and a great sur­vey of impli­ca­tions of cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science. Stephanie will inter­view the authors soon-keep tuned.

Some high­lights of the arti­cle
– Lead­ers would ben­e­fit from engag­ing oth­ers in ways based on innate brain pre­dis­po­si­tions
- Learn­ing is phys­i­cal change in our brain struc­tures. You have prob­a­bly heard that “cells that fire together wire together”. There­fore, each of our brains is, lit­er­ally, unique.
– The Quan­tum Zeno Effect, applied to neu­ro­science, means that “the men­tal act of focus­ing atten­tion sta­bi­lizes the asso­ci­ated brain circuits…Over time, pay­ing enough atten­tion to any spe­cific brain con­nec­tion keeps the rel­e­vant cir­cuitry open and dynam­i­cally alive…The power is in the focus.“
– Which results in “Self-directed neu­ro­plas­tic­ity”: “With enough atten­tion den­sity, indi­vid­ual thoughts and acts of the mind can become an intrin­sic part of an individual’s iden­tity: who one is, how one per­ceives the world, and how one’s brain works”.
– One of our bot­tle­necks with learn­ing new infor­ma­tion and sus­tain­ing atten­tion is work­ing mem­ory, i.e., “the brain’s hold­ing area, where per­cep­tions and ideas can first be com­pared to other infor­ma­tion“
– Finally, “given the small capac­ity of work­ing mem­ory, many small bites of learn­ing, digested over time, may be more effi­cient than large blocks of time spent in work­shops”. Did you need a neuroscience-based rea­son to fre­quent this blog regularly:-)

The authors also believe that “change is pain”. If you need proof, please
try this quick brain teaser.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on a num­ber of these and other areas cov­ered in the arti­cle:
– Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and brain exer­cise
– On being “smart” and build­ing neural con­nec­tions
– “Use It or Lose It”: what is “It”? (sim­pli­fied brain anatomy)
– Ready to learn?
– Work­ing Mem­ory Train­ing and Atten­tion
– On atten­tion, trad­ing psy­chol­ogy and open minds
– Emo­tions and Decision-Making
– Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams and the Brain and Mind Fit­ness Rev­o­lu­tion
– Phys­i­cal fit­ness and Brain Fit­ness
– On being positive

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10 Responses

  1. Brain Exercise: your most recent Aha! moment? « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution says:
    September 23, 2006 at 5:21

    […] In my post on The Neu­ro­science of Lead­er­ship and Brain Fit­ness, we quote David Rock and Jef­frey M. Schwartz and say that the Quan­tum Zeno Effect, applied to neu­ro­science, means that “the men­tal act of focus­ing atten­tion sta­bi­lizes the asso­ci­ated brain circuits…Over time, pay­ing enough atten­tion to any spe­cific brain con­nec­tion keeps the rel­e­vant cir­cuitry open and dynam­i­cally alive…The power is in the focus.” […]

  2. Hobart Johnson says:
    October 1, 2006 at 4:45

    I have looked at both blogs. There is much infor­ma­tion, per­haps too much for some peo­ple. I will need to spend much more time study­ing what you are pre­sent­ing and then I will have more com­ments. Thank you for send­ing these to me. Hobart

  3. Alvaro says:
    October 2, 2006 at 2:49

    Hi Hobart, thanks for the feed­back. We will start an exper­i­ment this week­with a dif­fer­ent struc­ture and more suc­cinct infor­ma­tion. We are try­ing to cater dif­fer­ent audi­ences, and learn­ing how to best do that.

    Regards

  4. Brain exercise: a moment for Reflections, Aha!, insights « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution says:
    October 13, 2006 at 6:54

    […] Why should we spend a minute reflect­ing on it? In the post on The Neu­ro­science of Lead­er­ship and Brain Fit­ness, we quote David Rock and Jef­frey M. Schwartz and say that the Quan­tum Zeno Effect, applied to neu­ro­science, means that “the men­tal act of focus­ing atten­tion sta­bi­lizes the asso­ci­ated brain circuits…Over time, pay­ing enough atten­tion to any spe­cific brain con­nec­tion keeps the rel­e­vant cir­cuitry open and dynam­i­cally alive…The power is in the focus.” […]

  5. Stroop Test, Inhibition and Brain-based coaching « SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution says:
    October 24, 2006 at 10:53

    […] Stephanie at Idealawg alerts us of a recent  arti­cle, titled “A Brain-based Approach to Coach­ing”, that serves as follow-up to the one we wrote about on the “Neu­ro­science of Leadership”. […]

  6. SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution » Blog Archive » Stroop Test, Inhibition and Brain-based coaching says:
    October 27, 2006 at 11:52

    […] Stephanie at Idealawg alerts us of a recent  arti­cle, titled “A Brain-based Approach to Coach­ing“, that serves as follow-up to the one we wrote about on the “Neu­ro­science of Leadership”. […]

  7. lodine says:
    February 3, 2007 at 6:08

    lodine…

    news…

  8. foradil says:
    February 3, 2007 at 6:15

    foradil…

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  9. » Brain Management for lawyers   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    February 28, 2007 at 10:05

    […] You can read more on a sim­i­lar topic, by Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz and David Rock: check out The Neu­ro­science of Leadership. […]

  10. » Manage your feelings for conflict resolution   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    June 25, 2007 at 10:12

    […] Stephanie West Allen kindly alerted us of her impres­sive new ini­tia­tive and blog, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Dr. Jef­frey M. Schwartz, titled Brains On Purposeâ„¢. They have part­nered to bring a series of sem­i­nars on neu­ro­science and con­flict res­o­lu­tion: Port­land, Ore­gon, in Novem­ber 2007, and San Fran­cisco Bay Area in Jan­u­ary 2008-so far.  Dr. Schwartz has pre­vi­ously par­tic­i­pated in a sim­i­lar and fruit­ful ini­tia­tive on The Neu­ro­science of Leadership with David Rock. We wish them best luck in this excit­ing initiative. […]

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