Posts under ‘Smart skills 1-10 Question’

When Dave Taylor posted today, “to be unPC is “critical” to our “healthy democracy,” I wondered about the words PC (or politically correct) and healthy democracy. Consider these words less from common usage, but from a brain based perspective, and you’d likely redefine these two.
By the way Dave, sincere thanks for raising keen topics like [...]

What tactics would you engage to solve conflicts, if war or violence was no longer an option? Perhaps a better way of asking is, “What marks of a peace plan could trump your next battle plan?”
Consider those who act on deep seated beliefs, such as generosity, service and social justice, when pushed into tough places. [...]

Tom Hansen said it best in his cartoon video Why Meetings Suck! Check out this hilarious video and when you stop laughing you’ll likely see yourself also trapped in the meeting Hansen dramatizes. Hopefully you’re not the bloke who leads such gatherings. In either case,  brain based approaches offer results that transform meetings into vibrant [...]

If you’re one to stomp feet or pound fists you’ll be glad to see that science shows a far more malleable brain for calm than once thought.
The opposite of frustration is reflection that adds serenity for sharpshooting answers when you most need to get by. In fact, it turns out that reflective actions can improve [...]

To reflect is to shuffle the human brain out from its daily ruts, rouse it from from routine resting places and compel it into wider reaches. Reflection often signals a lofty vision, not evident to a non-reflective mind.  What’s your mind-bending aspiration?
According to Robert Lee Holtz, Wall Street Journal Science Columnist, Researchers found that sudden [...]

Did you know that your brain’s equipped to change rapidly and to biologically reshape itself through chemical and electrical activity? This brain fact can speed up or slow down the ethical changes people crave, and too often fail to achieve at work. How so? Changes and growth are based more on doing acts though, than [...]

Are you living more myths pushed by cynics than mental realities from innovators? You’ll know by how much success or failure you meet on a daily basis. To achieve more success, for instance, you’ll want to burst through mental myths and begin to ride the adventures of reality. How so?
Whenever you question mental myths, using [...]

This morning I had an email from Charlie Fern, a White House Speech writer, with a link to scientists who extract images directly from the brain. My first reaction was to thank Charlie, for her thoughtfulness and for taking time out of her busy day to inform mine. My next reaction was to question this [...]

Life comes with mystery, and while dynamic revelations open to the questioning mind, it takes movement and a sense of curiosity to live great questions. The probe that moves a human mind from one place to another. Fortunately, your brain is equipped to both push the bus and ride it at the same time, when [...]

Most people hope at some time or another to move from where they stand at that moment, into a better place for their future. Especially if following predictable schedules is holding back personal progress.
Yet have you noticed that strong traditions rarely yield to finer approaches in many workplaces, even when rejuvenated practices prove superior? Or [...]

If you listened lately to the media’s constant streams of financial fears, you likely failed to shop much for loved ones over Christmas. Not that buying less detracts from the magic of Christmas. Yet, sadly, the gloomy news turned into poor proceeds for stores, just as fear blocked winning opportunities from your own brain. Why [...]

Define your interpersonal roles in people’s lives and you’ll succeed more in living those roles with zip. You’ll also be less likely to step on the people you care about. Interpersonal intelligence often starts with family, yet carries into all relationships. How so?
You’ve likely heard it too. Parents tell how grandparents give gifts that go [...]

Why do we settle for broken schools when we see so many brainy teens brimming with quality character come to class? While Chancellor Michelle Rhee attempts to rejuvenate Washington DC’s poor performing schools, with higher expectations and tactics to rise to them, teens drop out in growing numbers.
“Our long term goal is to make DC [...]

Ask,  How smart are you? and a person tends to respond negatively and in numerical scores. This question – as worded above – increasingly causes problems, because of new facts that identify differing areas where several intelligences reside in human brains.
Unlike  general intelligence ideas, that guided test writers, we now know that people who are [...]

We now know that IQ scores increase over a lifetime, that brains hold power tools for ethical excellence, and that dendrite brain cells rewire daily based on what you do.
My question is,  Do your multiple intelligences expand too, or are they lifeless through lack of use?
Whenever you tap your unique mix of mental tools, to [...]

If you find yourself defaulting to ruts or stuck in rigid routines, try asking, “What more could today offer through a different approach at work?” Or rather than worry over failed finances,  it’s worth chasing a question that sparks your brain’s capacity to hit reverse. Ask, “What hidden or unused assets can be put to [...]