Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Reboot your brain by what you do – and at the same time, you could be part of the adventure of media's future. Know More Media continually moves forward by doing, and I admire their creative reaches! The latest reach, BIZZbites, for instance shows what I mean. Check out BizzBites launched publically and see how this launch distinguishes Know More Media leaders as doers while others in the field tend to wait and worry about the rush and clashes of so many new networks. It also offers bloggers new advantages for a better traffic flow.

I’ve been looking at this launch more from inside the business brain, though. How so? Consider, from a well-respected neurosurgeon, the value of doing – even when to do means to risk in today’s fluctuating markets. BIZZbites is the result....It’s not easy and involves risk in whatever field you lead! Adventure often lies one lick beyond the courage to act, well ahead of the crowds! What do you think?

When confronted with the emotional stress of dealing with seriously ill patients, neurosurgeon Katrina Firlik wrote … “The truth is we are trained to do a job: recognize a problem, come up with a solution, and execute that plan. Our ability to actually do something protects us from what you might expect would be a chronic depressive state.” It also saves a business from going under.

Only recently, we learned the extent of the brain’s benefit from doing. Have you ever thought about how we shape business deals for either well-being or trauma, by what you do. It may seem simplistic at first, except that we now know from magnetic imaging that the brain’s plasticity is altered through the night as we sleep, because of what we do that day. People who fail to act, also tend to fail to grow.

This explains why depressed people who complain about unpaid bills find healing if they simply pay one small amount on each bill monthly. It likely means adding 20 minutes daily to plan financial strategies. Similarly, people who fear leaders, tend to lose that fear if they invite a leader home for lunch and ask how they can be supportive. There is a reason for this growth, and it relates to how the brain rewires when we act.

Simply do and your brain reboots for new chances to solve a problem, or carry you past a barrier that slows you down. I like to think of doing as the brain’s way of tweaking two-bit solutions into grand plans.

It may simply mean a slight change. Last month the MITA Brain Based Center grew far busier than we could handle at times, and my schedule found me up working until wee hours of the morning. The pattern turned my day upside down, as I found it harder to get up at the crack of dawn when I like to write, and hard to sleep much before 3:00 AM.

Sometimes, the brain needs a bit of help from us, as Dr. Firlik implied. Yet when I think about all a human brain gives back to business plans in any day - through multiple intelligences - the doing of a thing to rewire for better neuron pathways, seems a small cost to pay.

What do you plan to do today? I’m taking in a Georgia O’Keefe show at the Rochester Art Gallery with the extra time I wired in because I did more work in the morning today. My business goes better when I take time to relax and art expands my thinking to creative new places.

Sometimes, the brain needs a bit of help from us, as Dr. Firlik implied. It reminds me of the deep value and synergy that comes to me through my relationship with so many unique leaders, thinkers and doers at Know More Media. Not a bad takeaway for a Thursday in December. Go BiIZZbites Go! I’m sticking my post in today to see how it makes out – see you over there where we’ll vote for the best of your ideas too.