Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Do you walk into a room with the air of confidence and zip that you admire in charismatic friends? What if you were to think more like a genius communicator – much like Aristotle or Einstein thought? How so?

Increasing  evidence shows how successful people use far more of their brains and meet fewer stress related barriers that hold many people back from higher goals…. Would you choose a mind like Einstein and Mozart … or enjoy the communication acumen and effective tone tactics of Bill Gates … or lead like Golda Mair or Oprah…? All communicated their way to the peaks, as many geniuses teach us how reboot our brains for that purpose.

Take Einstein, who reminded people that he was no smarter than others but he was simply more curious and he stuck with problems long after others had left them…. In short he hung in until communication paved the way forward.

You may be surprised to learn, that because the brain is shaped by what you do,  people who mimic what successful people do – can raise their communication ideas significantly. Simply shadow a good communicator today and mimic three approaches to that person's communication approaches– and you’ll see how it works.

As you sleep nightly, your brain rewires for new skills based on what you did the previous day - which means you will wire in new brain cell dendrite connectors for communication, with each effective approach you act on. Repeat the best of these, and the brain stores that skill in your basal gangia so that it becomes your regular response, when problems hit.

Do you see the opposite here, when poor communicators defend ineffective tone approaches - or add meta messages - rather than apply an approach of communicators they respect? How so? Did you know that poor communication tactics can actually shrink your brain - literally?

In contrast, check out  how a genius might apply communication tactics to …

1. Reframe old problems into new and interesting solutions. If a person cannot understand a thing at first, for example, that person might reframe it in simpler terms and try it out that way. Sound better than throwing a computer out a window?
2. Visualize in images or graphs or cartoons and then share the images with another person to help clarify a project.
3. Produce constant concrete pieces – and take the risks that some of your pieces will fail – just as the highest IQs fail in parts that do. Get up quickly, readjust your tone and keep producing! It’s how the A lists do and achieve excellence!
4. Make novel combinations so that things that others may not think to connect – will integrate images, and insights from diverse fields,  into new ways of speaking and acting – with surprising results!
5. Form relationships. “Da Vinci forged a relationship between the sound of a bell and a stone hitting water. This enabled him to make the connection that sound travels in waves. Samuel Morse invented relay stations for telegraphic signals when observing relay stations for horses.”

6. Think in opposites and show how an opposite side of key issues, can extend people’s thinking and open new discussions that interest people.
7. Think metaphorically and you’ll see why Aristotle considered metaphors a sign of genius communication. Or you’ll see the power behind William Yeat’s metaphor that reminds us … “Learning is not the filling of a pail… but the lighting of a fire.”
8. Prepare yourself for chance. Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. That is the first principle of creative accident, used by brilliant communicators. It’s also why strong tone skills can help you to move to the next level as a communicator, when you see failure or fail yourself. Failure can be productive only if we do not focus on it as an unproductive result. Instead: analyze the process, its components, and how you can change them, to arrive at other results.

Gather strength from the fact that  genius communicators do not ask the question "Why have I failed?", but rather "What have I done?" How can that new question ratchet up your communication skills to get you new solutions today?