Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Einstein’s eighth grade teacher called him a bonehead because he deviated from the standardized approaches to math.... The young genius drew pictures using his spatial intelligence to create answers instead.

This deviation to standards caused Einstein to flunk most of his math exams. Instead he imagined himself riding the curve of the arc and created the theory of relativity.

The human brain is shaped by what we do in a day… so much so that it rewires when we sleep at night … growing new connectors based on the day’s activity. Can you see the severe limitations and restrictions standardization can impose on creativity intelligence.  Have we standardized to make more money from more employees… at the expense of discovery,  invention and art that distinguishes nations in an information age?

Standardization may establish a technical standard that allows products to compete for profit, but in the long run it may work against people’s competitive edge because it can shut down discovery and invention. To make us the same is big business’ way of optimising economic use of scarce resources such as logging, where all of Europe measures lengths in metres for the sake of competition.

Too often standardization improves efficiency for big business profit and offers a way to handle people through bureaucratization, homogenization, and centralization of resources. Government agencies require standards as a prerequisite for doing business, offering perks to those who follow and denying services to those who use diverse approaches.  The military uses strict standards to control and move forces efficiently into a war plan. Online universities follow standardization for assessments conducted under exact, specified, and repeatable conditions.