Written By Ellen Weber, PhD and Robyn McMaster, PhD
Higher Education and Brain Based Benefits
Challenges of Change
Renewal is to the university community today what Renaissance was to the Middle Ages. Both encompass a resurgence of learning. Both tap into more potential from the human brain. To reconfigure university teaching for a rebirth [...]
Have you experienced mental power that bubbles over in circles where no brain is left behind? Interactive sessions where creativity trumps criticism, and diversity’s the handmaiden of dignity and innovative virtue?
If so, would you agree that brilliant solutions tend to flow from pools just outside of the prevailing thought – where:
1. No Brain Left [...]
Each step to renew your workplace ethically and with the brain in mind – casts lights on mental barriers that prevent change in stagnant organizations. How so?
To rethink old approaches is also to take a stand against Hebbian hardwired thought that defaults back to ruts and routines.
To upgrade motivation and achievement at secondary or higher [...]
A close friend and colleague of mine cleverly uses the term, “Let it go!” to address life’s tougher and more hard-hitting conflicts. An admirable quality, it usually works well over time to drop things and move on.
In contrast, my own response has often been to fix problems, try to improve things for all, and to [...]
Some say that men’s logic rivals women’s emotion, when it comes to problem-solving or stress. Others say that successful men and women use both logic and emotion – but they use it differently to solve problems and cope with stress. What do you say?
Interestingly, hilarious mental differences you’ll spot in the YouTube below are based [...]
