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There are many claims made in the popular media by neuroscientists and journalists that are, in reality, beyond the limits of current neuroscience 
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The number one driver of whether a habit change is a success or not is how big the initial goal is. Everyone, if they're consistent, will eventually...
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How to change bad habits
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I’ve written about positivity before, in terms of cultivating a positive outlook for yourself. What I want to write about today is cultivating positivity in your workplace, particularly if you’re a leader.
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Brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, refers to the brain's ability to change as a result of experience. Learn more about these changes and the different types of plasticity in the brain.
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Brain plasticity
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In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world.
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Our brains perceive new things as threats, so it requires a conscious decision to nurture creativity. How are you supporting creativity?
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Five years on from Lehman Brothers' collapse and “where did it all go wrong?” analysis is all the rage. Answers have varied…
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How people get carried away...
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http://www.amandagore.com Neuroscience is teaching us that leadership actually relates to how the brain works and many of the old theories we had are no long...
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Neuroscience and change - interesting video by Amanda Gore
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Why should you trust your gut? Because science says it's the foundation of rational decision making.
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Trusting your gut may be a successful decision-making process, but as long as you act within your area of expertise. Because intuition is nothing more than unconscious experience...
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How To Generate Your Own Career Breakthrough
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Some career coaching today...
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Strategic thinking doesn't find itself. It needs time--about 30 to 90 minutes--and space. LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner shows us why.
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How do YOU manage business?
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Science continues to show that we can grow areas of the brain associated with learning and memory. This has stark implications for learning to trust ourselves in the midst of vulnerability
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While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile
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Psychopathic tendencies kept within social norms.
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Think of a situation where you had bulletproof facts, reason, and logic on your side, and believed there was absolutely no way the other person could say no to your perfectly constructed argument and proposal.
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Emotions are necessary to make any decision
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A month ago, I read Stephen Guises's book Mini Habits: Smaller Habits. Bigger Results. What I loved about the content was Stephen's emphasize on how small
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What mini habit will you start?
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The creative processing your brain won't tell you about We’ve known for some time that our senses detect an inordinate amount of signals. More than we’re ever aware of. Now new research is showing...
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How to increase creativity
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To really unleash your company's creativity, look to the squishy place it all begins: the chemistry in the brain.
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How to increase creativity at work
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You have the ability to rewire your brain learn to make better decisions and become a more effective leader in the process. But it's going to take...
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It's all in your head..
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For leaders, to increase their insights and make them better.
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Research: Effective psychotherapy proven to positively alter your physical brain (no drugs required)
Research: Effective psychotherapy proven to positively alter your physical brain (no drugs required)
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Coaching theoretically should have a si;ilar effect on brain...
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“This capacity to be an observer of yourself is phenomenal — and possibly unique to humans. Indeed, to literally ‘see yourself see’ is in my view the principle act of consciousness, which has the power to transform one’s view of the world and of oneself.”
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New research sheds more light on the strong ties between an original mind and a troubled one.
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Creativity and madness
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Experts weigh in on whether brain training, which mostly focuses on improving cognitive function, can really rewire the human brain.
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One of the things that surprises me time and time again is how we think our brains work and how they actually work.
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Tactics to have a smarter brain...
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I'm a big fan of music and use it a lot when working, but I had no idea about how it really affects our brains and bodies. Music is such a big part of our lives, and we react to it in many ways without even realizing.
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We need to remember that current techniques used to study the brain are limited, so many conclusions from these studies can be overstated.