Dr. Julie Gurner (@drgurner)DrGurner.com
Advisor, SquareOneMail.com
Dr. Julie Gurner (@drgurner)DrGurner.com
Advisor, SquareOneMail.com
Get it Done: Leverage Neuroscience to do more, faster.
Get it Done: Leverage Neuroscience to do more, faster.
First Principle: Heed Circadian Rhythm
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The Hypothalamus.
What’s Your Pattern?
Working 9-5? Well...
- Is this your optimum?- Are you
compensating?
Second Principle: Don’t Be a Dreamer.
The Real Deal...
“Positive expectations (judging a desired future as likely) predicted high effort and successful performance, but the reverse was true for positive fantasies (experiencing one's thoughts and mental images about a desired future positively).”Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 83(5), Nov 2002, 1198-1212.
Positive Expectation vs. Positive Fantasies.
Third Principle: Focus, Don’t Flounder
1. Hard Truth: You think you can multitask - You can’t.
The average person will reduce efficiency by as much as 40% when having to re-orient from a task.
2. Exciting Truth: If you are working 24/7, you are working wrong.
Separate the notion that working ALL the time = being productive.
Make Stress Work For You.
- Chronic Stress vs. Acute Stress in the Brain
Your Hippocampus.
Stress & Strategy.
What does this say about Project Management & Procrastination?
Fourth Principle: Tune Up.
A major factor that determines our ability to sustain attention and maintain peak cognitive performance has to do with the total amount of sleep you manage to get over several days.
- Harvard Business Review
Prefrontal Cortex.Sleep deprivation depletes the glucose level in your pre-frontal cortex...Christopher Barnes et al. Lack of Sleep and Unethical Conduct. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making Processes (115) 2011 169-180
Thank You.Feel Free to Contact Me:
Dr. Julie Gurner[drgurner.com]
Twitter: @drgurner
Email: [email protected]
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