Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Why is it that sometimes the light between the ears flashes brightly, providing that insightful "aha!" moment of discovery, and sometimes it doesn't come on at all? That’s the question ABC News asked ….

If you’ve ever been creative one moment, and stuck as a stick in mud the next ... you’ll share my curiosity to know more about the mystery of creativity and the mind. ABC claims that experts are beginning to get a grasp on what it is that makes us creative ... which just may lead to the harbinger discoveries that will help more people to embrace creativity at work. What do you think?
 

Not too surprisingly… you’d likely agree…  that an "aha" moment comes faster to a mind that is prepared to be creative, even before presented with a problem.

Cognitive scientists at Drexel and Northwestern Universities have researched why we are sometimes creative, reaching a conclusion in a flash of light, and why we are sometimes methodical, plodding along until we finally put all the pieces together.

At the MITA Brain Based Renewal Center where I work … we deliberately rewire our brains for creativity  daily based on new facts from neurology and related fields.  We try to stay open to creative ideas by drawing on individual interests and experiences. Creativity is more available to people than most of us think… whenever we prepare ahead and enhance it.

Schools and universities have not always helped here. Unfortunately, we tend to use two intelligences only in secondary and college classes, for instance, and probably less when we come to work. Nor have we heard much about how to access our brain based creativity-helpers … such as serotonin … a resource we all possess.  

The question is, “How can we prepare our brains to generate more creativity … ahead of problems that hit us at work?”  What do you think?