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Understand Your Brain Mohammad Tawfik
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Understand Your Brain
Mohammad Tawfik
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A Tip!
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Your body language goes both ways!
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Smile!
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Managing your brain!
Your Brain at Work
By: David Rock
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Decision Making
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Your brain gets tired VERY easily!
2% of body mass
20% of energy consumed!
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Prioritize Prioritizing!
David Rock, “Your Brain at Work”
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The Prefrontal Cortex
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That is where you do …
Prefrontal Cortex
Planning
Creativity
Deciding Inhibition
Memorizing
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Multi-tasking decreases performance dramatically
Take it easy on yourself!
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When you are multitasking, you are actually using your autopilot!
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Multitasking messes both jobs!
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Write down ideas to clear your mind!
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We think about what is easy to think about not about what is important!
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Thinking about problems is easy …
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Imagining solutions is not!
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Staying Cool Under Pressure
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The Limbic system is responsible for “Fight or Flight” responses
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When it is activated …
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We generalize more!
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We tend to be pessimistic!
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Memory does not perform well!
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Sometimes, that is good
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We get derailed by “conspiracy theory”!
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Expectations get out of control!
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Your brain needs a good level of stress and alertness to work properly
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Dopamine is a chemical that help your brain to work …
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it is generated by good expectations or rewards
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Humor and positive expectations generate dopamine
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Fear produces adrenaline which also help attention, but it might have
negative effects as well
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Over alertness reduces your capability to concentrate!!!
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To get out of over alertness try to activate other parts of your brain …
take a walk or have a shower
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Activate your director
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Meta-cognition
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Think about your thinking
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Cooling down gives way to insights!
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Collaborating with Others
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The SCARF model
What gets people to work and what not!
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Status
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Certainty
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Autonomy
• Daniel Pink, “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates you”
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Autonomy motivates!
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Relatedness
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Fairness
It is a perception!
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Facilitating Change
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Attention changes your brain!
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To Facilitate Change …
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Focus on what you want to create!
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