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Using Your Mind to Lead with

ImpactNeuroScience in Action!

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1. NeuroScience & the Mind 2. Three Parts of the Brain3. Amygdala Hijack4. Human Performance Curve5. Away & Toward Language6. SCARF - Awareness Leadership

Leadership Agenda


Myth Buster: NeuroPlasticityThe brain is always

changing…has the ability to rewire and create new circuits

Pruning/Unlearning and Sprouting/Learning VS. NeuroRigidity: only using memories, never learning from experience, same thoughts and actions… expecting different results


•Process over 400 billion bits of info every second!

•Aware of about 2000 bits of data

•100 billion nerve cells

•70-100 trillion synapses

•40 thousand connections/neuron in conscious thinking brain

•1 million connections/neuron in subconscious

Power of the Brain: A Miracle of Creation

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Operating Brain: 2 Parts of ConsciousnessMind is the Brain in Action

Conscious Mind: ability to be aware of yourself, your actions, thoughts, feelings, environment. The invisible qualities of self-observation. (neocortex - 5%)

Subconscious Mind: involuntary - every second is processing millions of automatic functions of health & life we take for granted.

(midbrain & cerebellum - 95%)


Human Brain - 3 Parts


1. Neocortex - Thinking Brain

•Crowning Achievement – 40% of the brain

•Conscious Thinking - 5%•Frontal Lobe = Free Will (most neuro-

plastic)•Executive decision maker - Intention! •Analyzes, strategizes, decides on

action•Limited processing capacity: 1-3

events at a time

•Aware of yourself - if you take the time to notice


2. Cerebellum - Hind Brain

•HABITS - learned, memorized by repetition

•1 Million neurons & connections processing simultaneously

•Servant that executes thought from Neocortex

•Takes over the body for natural ‘subconscious processes’

•Multi-tasking

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3. Midbrain - Feeling Brain

•80 times faster than Neocortex - why feelings are so important

•Regulates many internal states - body temperature, blood pressure, digestion hormone levels...

•Emotional brain or Chemical brain

•Dopamine/pleasure - move toward

•Adrenaline/fight - move away


Amygdala Hijack: Survival Impedes & Sabotages Performance

Signs:1. Strong emotional reaction

2. Sudden onset3. Post realization if reaction inappropriate

4. Period of time to regain composure


5 Top Amygdala Triggers @ Work

1. Condescending &

lack of respect

2. Being treated unfairly

3. Being unappreciated

4. Feeling that you are

not being listened to

or heard

5. Being held to

unrealistic deadlines


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Words Describing the Performance Curve


Mind can Only Focus on 1 Thing!

Focused Attention - is key to making neural connections from data to remembering

Present Moment – awareness and attention or no brain connections & no stored memory

Multi-Tasking is not your brain’s friend!


Single Focus ResultsSurvive

• Frustration• Protection• Pain• Fear/Anger• Sadness• Selfish• Arrogance

Adrenaline

Thrive• Freedom• Growth• Pleasure• Joy• Happiness• Selfless• Compassion

DHEA


Focus is Key!

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Your THINKING...thoughts & beliefs...+ Feelings + Actions = RESULTS/LIFE.


Situations Don’t Cause Feelings or StressSituations – even dramatic ones like a car coming through a wall, bankruptcy, divorce, death, economic recession…cannot directly cause a feeling of any kind until the brain interprets and creates a story about the situation. So we can only be overwhelmed by our THOUGHTS about something…never the thing itself.

‘If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but rather to your own estimate of it. And this you have the power to revoke at any moment.‘

Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

STRESS is optional!

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Performance Drivers: Toward or Away Language

SCARF Model of Social Threats & Rewards by David Rock

-AwayFrom

Response

+Toward

Response


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Motivates!

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