Tag: human brain

Struggling to concentrate in class, at university or work? Recharge your grey matter and take a brain break. Educators say short mental breaks from tasks help children focus and retain information. Brain breaks boost focus by giving the brain time to reset and refuel.

Leaders must navigate increasingly complex challenges. These include economic uncertainty, rapid technological change, evolving workforce requirements and stakeholder demands. Within this context of leadership in uncertain times, traditional skills no longer suffice.

Every day you are bombarded with visual stimuli. Your breakfast, your emails, your social media feeds, and almost every item you interact with, blast your brain with imagery in an attempt to get attention. Your brain diverts all of it to the unconscious side, including that very expensive campaign-from-that-oh-so-trendy agency. Unless, of course, it triggers some sort of divergence, something visually disruptive that forces the conscious brain to process and investigate.

Only 25% of the world’s population is comfortable with changing the status quo and doing things with an innovative twist. These individuals are often called disruptors or innovators.

When you look at the mammal that is Homo sapiens in the context of geological time, the 200,000 years we have been around is...