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”.

The authors, David Rock and Jef­frey Schwartz, are host­ing a a free webi­nar on Thurs­day Novem­ber 2, 2006, from 2 to 3 PM Eastern.

One quote from their arti­cle: “While we don’t seem to have the abil­ity to con­trol our thoughts, we do have a say over which thoughts we act on. It seems we may not have much “free will” but we do have “free won’t”-the abil­ity to not fol­low our urges”.

In other words, inhi­bi­tion power is what “frees” us. Many kids and adults with ADHD strug­gle with it-and not only them. You may wonder-what is the deal with Inhi­bi­tion? well, try one of your favorite brain exer­cises, below:

Quick! say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word you read. The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­ity and flex­i­bil­ity, since per­form­ing well requires strong inhi­bi­tion capa­bil­ity. Enjoy.

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