Brainhack: Tips and Tricks to Unleash Your Brain's Full Potential
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0857086421
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Hack into the secret power of your brain
Your Brain
100 Billion Neurons
100 Trillion Connections
And you only command 5% of it.
Now it's time to take back control!
In Brainhack, creativity coach Neil Pavitt gives you tips and tricks to re-programme your brain, developing the skills and insights that can transform how you think, solve problems and make decisions.
This book will help you:
• Learn to think smarter
• Become more focused
• Discover creative approaches to problem-solving
• Generate ideas with innovative techniques
• Unlock your brain blocks
that make you laugh is that they're fantastic stress busters. “One of the other great benefits of watching things that make you laugh is that they're fantastic stress busters.” Seeing a Joke Coming Dr Lee Berk and his team at Loma Linda University in California ran tests on the effects of watching funny videos in relation to reducing stress. The tests showed that thirty minutes after watching funny videos, cortisol was down 67%, adrenaline was down 35%, and DOPAC was down 69%. But what
as “the weekend”) most off us try to switch off and not think about work. It's vital to have time to switch off, especially if you've had a stressful week. But taking time off doesn't just have to be about switching off. It can be a great opportunity to come up with new and innovative ideas. If we keep doing the same thing the neural pathways in our brain become neural superhighways. The more engrained they become, the harder it is to have fresh and original ideas. But the brain is incredibly
Get people into small teams of two, three or four and then allocate a decent block of time for them to work on the problem. The very minimum should be a whole morning or afternoon. If you can get out of the office, that's even better. “Lots of the best ideas occur when camaraderie and chemistry have built up between employees, and breaks from the office together – even for just a day – can make all the difference,” says Richard Branson.1 After an initial outpouring of ideas you'll find yourself
just take over and we can't function properly. But there is a simple technique that can really help to diffuse negative emotions. Name them. I don't mean give each emotion its own pet name: “This is my insecurity, but I call it ‘Norman'”. No, what I mean is when you feel an overpowering emotion, just say the name of it. Obviously if you're in the company of someone you say it in your head, but if you're alone, saying it out loud can give it more authority. For instance if someone says they
novelty in the messy room. The next test wasn't just to see if people were more inclined to newness, but to see if messiness actually encouraged creativity. They assigned a group of individuals messy or neat rooms as before. But this time they asked them to think of new uses for ping-pong balls. The participants from both rooms wrote down about the same numbers of solutions. But when the solutions were analysed by independent judges, it was found that the ideas that came from people in the