The brain’s way of handling risk may surprise you, but few would deny, it takes courage to embrace the new. It may alarm you though, that often it takes a great deal of proof that change will work – before the mind improves or changes what is no longer meaningful. Sadly, routines can consume our workdays, and hold back the innovation that comes with risk-taking.
The human brain stores rigid routines, and unless we open deliberately to changes, we tend to operate from secure mental places deep within the brain’s basal ganglia. Think of it as a deep freeze of stored ideas and often repeated items - over a lifetime. Can you see the problem?
No question, to step outside these routines and take a risk for adventure that leads to innovation … takes brave acts and a dare to win. In a sense, it means letting go of information you already know and stepping aside from routines you do comfortably on a regular basis. Smart skills can reboot the brain with courage to risk what you could become or accomplish….
Only when we no longer remain bound to rigid routines, or stuck in places of fear and insecurity can we gain the courage to risk letting go of certainties that tighten a noose to mediocrity.
Would you agree that most serious risk-taking starts with an act of daring, regardless of how small that act is?
Helen Keller said it this way … “I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker…“
In Keller’s words, life is “either a daring adventure, or it was nothing at all!” If you agree with Keller’s words, and if you buy into research that shows how actions shape the courageous brain, what risk will you act on today? How will you nudge an idea beyond its secure routine where you work?
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