In Stephen Frears’ movie, The Queen, Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen, show why the brain needs to rewire itself daily -beyond familiar routines. The Queen is portrayed as a Hebbian thinker, a state which reduces the human brain to narrow outputs and holds a business back.
To avoid Hebbian's physical and psychological changes that recondition the brain for a narrow focus and an avoidance of external stimuli, progressive business people embrace change. Especially innovations that come from employees and their community.
Hebbianism threw the royal household into inaction through the Queen’s response to Diana’s death.
It prevented her from mixing intelligence with emotion as tools to lead, the way people expext their leaders at the helm.
It doesn’t require tragedy the size of Diana’s accident to shake the Hebbian limitations to the surface, but it does take an openness to change. Can your business adapt to a world that left Hebbian traditions behind?
Much like the Queen's lack of choice in her royal birthright, we have no choice about gene pools that come with birth. In daily business practices, though, we can rewire our brains for improvements – just by what we do, who we collaborate with, or how we focus on new ventures.
Research increasingly shows how it’s never too late for change, since the brain rewires regularly while we sleep, based on changes we make during each day. I like to think I'll replace one tired routine at least, during each week at work. How about you?
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