Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Lately researchers have begun to express concern that some fast paced cities such as New York are causing people  to become hypomanic --. Andy Behrman ... author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania... tells how he moved to Manhattan with undiagnosed bipolar disorder. During his time there ... Andy fell into 22-hour days and manic nights ... as a go-go boy and gossip columnist.

New York , Andy wrote, really is a city that never sleeps – and he described how traps of his urban lifestyle kept him in a state of mania ... so that he too stayed awake and wired.... Does Andy sound like anybody you know...?

Dr. John Gartner, described hypomania as one of the major reasons he is successful. Do you believe that…? And at what cost…? Gartner shows how the country’s founders possessed genes for bipolar disorder and that they passed those genes down to their followers.

Having high energy may be ideal at times, but we need to do a better job of taking care of ourselves in ways that bring calm and well-being to others. What do you think?