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Today we do more work with our brains than with our hands, and knowledge work requires a different set of assumptions about productivity.
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016 |
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The work going on in your brain can happen no matter where you brain is. When individuals and organizations embrace this idea, it frees people up to do their best work.
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117 |
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We’re run by the automatic processes of the primitive parts of our prefrontal cortex. In short, we think we’re in charge of our lives, but often we’re not.
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Given the way our brains are designed, we actually learn less well when we’re presented with a great deal of information all at once.
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Unlike computers, we’re hardwired to undertake tasks sequentially. Our brains are incapable of paying attention to two separate things at the same time.
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..intentionally setting aside time to quiet the mind and activate the right hemisphere… is a powerful way to induce creative breakthroughs.
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Our culture needs more right-brain qualities, needs to be more intuitive, conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic. And so, of course, do we.
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…corporate culture, along with society as a whole, recognizes and rewards left-brain accomplishments and tends to discount right-brain achievements.
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097 |
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The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on its owner the comforting delusion that he or she does not have any.
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057 |
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Human beings may not be eager to change, but we have the ability to change, and the fact that many of our self-protective delusions and blind spots are built in to the way the brain works is no justification for not trying.
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