![]() ![]() “Hundreds of percentage” bump in the likelihood of real change. There is ENORMOUS value in learning socially and learning with other people. How do you do a better job paying attention to your mental state and your thoughts? Monday morning is the best time for quiet reflection, because you have the least noise from the week.Īfter exercise or a nap, or after something fun and restful - when you have energy, when you have the urge to write or create - pay attention to those phenomena and try to tap into them when you get a chance. If you can even get one day a week of spending your mornings doing contemplative routine, your creative output will explode. Sleep with your phone in a different room. “10% of people do their best thinking at work, 90% of people do their best thinking when they aren’t at work" Pay attention to and value the quiet signals in your brain How do you generate more creative insights?ĭon’t check your phone or emails first thing in the morning.ĭo creative work first in the morning, then urgent and important work second, and emails and everything else third.ĭon’t schedule meetings until after 11 or 12pm, let people be productive in the morning You have more “frames” to view the problem or situation. When you have more language - whether food, music, the brain, anything - you have a much richer experience, you notice the small subtle details. Language connects the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain. The more language you have for your own brain the more you can notice what is going on. “Language gives you the ability to alter your experience." Mental schemas (aka chunks) are very useful for analyzing the world - but they lock you into certain patterns of thought The unconscious brain is trillions of times more powerful than the conscious brain You have more breakthrough moments when your brain is under one of these conditions:īeing internally focused (not listening or seeing) The mechanics of how we get trapped in mental schemas - your subconscious does most of the processing and heavy liftingĬhanging your thinking patterns is as hard as changing traffic flow on the freeway It’s REALLY HARD to break through these mental schemas without a lot of hard mental effort The mind blowing interpretations of the phrase “Time Flies Like An Arrow" Its really hard for our brains to break out of their preexisting molds and patterns of thinkingĮven breaking out of the smallest mental “schemas” can be very difficult He has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fortune Magazine, PsychologyToday and many more publications. ![]() He is the author of the best-selling ' Your Brain at Work', ' Quiet Leadership', and the textbook ' Coaching with the Brain in Mind'. He co-edits the NeuroLeadership Journal and heads up an annual global summit. David Rock coined the term 'NeuroLeadership' and is the director of the NeuroLeadership Institute. Uncover the neuroscience of how your brain gets stuck and finally start using strategies that really work to create more breakthroughs and results in your life with Dr. Less than 30% of people succeed in changing their behavior without using the tools and strategies we share in this interview. ![]() In this interview we discuss how to finally break through what’s holding you back, take action, and create lasting habit and behavior change. ![]()
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