Understand Your Brain

Understand Your Brain Mohammad Tawfik

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Understand Your Brain

Mohammad Tawfik



A Tip!



Your body language goes both ways!



Smile!



Managing your brain!

Your Brain at Work

By: David Rock



Decision Making



Your brain gets tired VERY easily!

2% of body mass

20% of energy consumed!



Prioritize Prioritizing!

David Rock, “Your Brain at Work”



The Prefrontal Cortex



That is where you do …

Prefrontal Cortex

Planning

Creativity

Deciding Inhibition

Memorizing



Multi-tasking decreases performance dramatically

Take it easy on yourself!



When you are multitasking, you are actually using your autopilot!



Multitasking messes both jobs!



Write down ideas to clear your mind!



We think about what is easy to think about not about what is important!



Thinking about problems is easy …



Imagining solutions is not!



Staying Cool Under Pressure



The Limbic system is responsible for “Fight or Flight” responses



When it is activated …



We generalize more!



We tend to be pessimistic!



Memory does not perform well!



Sometimes, that is good



We get derailed by “conspiracy theory”!



Expectations get out of control!



Your brain needs a good level of stress and alertness to work properly



Dopamine is a chemical that help your brain to work …



it is generated by good expectations or rewards



Humor and positive expectations generate dopamine



Fear produces adrenaline which also help attention, but it might have

negative effects as well



Over alertness reduces your capability to concentrate!!!



To get out of over alertness try to activate other parts of your brain …

take a walk or have a shower



Activate your director



Meta-cognition



Think about your thinking



Cooling down gives way to insights!



Collaborating with Others



The SCARF model

What gets people to work and what not!



Status



Certainty



Autonomy

• Daniel Pink, “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates you”



Autonomy motivates!



Relatedness



Fairness

It is a perception!



Facilitating Change



Attention changes your brain!



To Facilitate Change …



Focus on what you want to create!

Education

Understand Your Brain