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How to use your brain by design to be more successful

The way your brain functions determines the quality of your life! Unfortunately, your brain doesn’t come with a pre-printed owner’s manual. This means that you may not be using your brain in a way that can enhance your success, minimize conflict, and decrease the problems you need to deal with in life. Fortunately, current research is shedding new light on the way in which the brain functions. An increased understanding of the brain can help you to be more realistic in terms of relating to the brains of others and in developing strategies for relating to your own brain more effectively. And it can be fun!

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION

Use your brain for success! Only you can! Your brain as unique as your thumb print. It starts developing very early in the process of gestation and the way it functions determines the quality of your life! The brain, this mystery organ inside your bony skull, can be intriguing and bewildering at the same time. Unfortunately, your brain doesn’t come with a pre-printed owner’s manual. Fortunately, current research, often involving state-of-the-art testing and imaging modalities, is shedding new light on the way the brain functions, much as ocean-going ships once opened up the world to commerce.

This seminar is designed to demystify your brains—yes, there are more than one of them—in easy-to-understand language. It includes explanations related to generation gap, maturation rates, and energy efficiency. An increased understanding of the brain can help you to be more realistic in terms of relating to the brains of others and in developing strategies for relating to your own brain more effectively. And it can be fun!

TIME FRAME

This seminar can be presented in one 50-minute segment.

TARGET AUDIENCE

People who are interested in understanding more about their amazing brain, including factors that can contribute to gender gap and energy-inefficiency.

SEMINAR OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the seminar, participants should be able to:

  • Describe your “brains” in terms of conscious versus subconscious portions
  • Outline the maturation process in terms of myelination and pre-frontal lobe development
  • Identify factors that can contribute to the generation gap
  • Explain the difference between having learned to do something well versus easily
  • Implement two personal strategies for relating to your brain more effectively

 

 
 
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