Mar 27th, 2009
by eweber.
How do you you cope with change? Your brain comes with tools and equipment to manage and even profit from change. But do you?
Here’s a fascinating snippet of changes swirling around you now, as well as those cascading far faster than you may realize.
Did you know your brain comes with ability to change successfully and [...]
Ethics is to the brain’s sense of right or wrong, what a noble life is to a highly intelligent and thoughtful person. Truth is – the brain comes with moral potential. It equips people to do what is good – even when that good comes with personal cost. Sure, it takes a bit of work, [...]
It was strongly held that adult brains cannot grow new cells or regenerate old ones. Recent research on aging though, is trumping commonly held myths.
Elizabeth Gould’s dynamic discoveries in this area recently created an entirely new field of neurogenesis, a discipline that shows how the adult brain generates new cells.
Elizabeth Gould at Princeton University [...]
Oct 23rd, 2008
by eweber.
Have you felt bombarded as waves of financial failures intensify? It’s hard not to be drawn into the swells that wash away chunks of security with each ebb and flow. Newscasts splash doom across our TV screens while anchors toss human fears into darker waters daily, with chilling predictions of harsher storms to come.
In the [...]
Have you heard reasons given by people who cling to tired routines? The other day the dean of a university’s education department claimed to his audience that he’d like to make changes, but that his university was required to train teachers for schools that already exist out there.
Not one person questioned this shocking statement. Yikes! [...]
Sep 27th, 2008
by eweber.
Just as top gymnasts bend without breaking, flexible brains adapt with unbelievably pliable approaches.
Did you know -
Human brains come equipped with flexibility, or plasticity, that takes exercise to sustain?
Plasticity, or mental elasticity has less to do with age and far more to do with choices?
People are more susceptible to ruts than most realize, because of [...]
Sep 15th, 2008
by eweber.
Who could predict that yet another Wall Street rock-like leader, Lehman, would shatter today’s news with losses too big to recover? Sadly, another one hits the bust, and Wall Street is said to standby stymied, staring down defeat in response. What’s your response?
Surprising, financial busts offer an ideal setting for leaders to build new brainpower for victory before failure shuts [...]