You're likely far smarter than you think – and here are a few facts about the human brain to prove it. Check your answers from the earlier brain based survey to calculate brainpower surges or slacks in your day.
Here are the answers in brief. To read more on any one question, simply click on that question’s link.
To add your ideas or insights leave a comment and we’ll draw you into the discussion about brainpower spikes… that can reboot your workplace. 
Ready set go…
1. What surprising new fact about boredom can help you escape it? Boredom comes from patterns formed in the brain - not from reality, and it’s shaped by your choices.
2. What does a brain based workplace look like? People benefit from brain based insights, in language they understand and solutions that draw from newly discovered brainpower, in such a setting.
3. What’s Serotonin and why should you care? Serotonin is the chemical hormone that fuels your brain for learning and well-being.
4. What cortisol and why should you care? Cortisol is the hormone associated with anger, fear, stress or frustration, and it shuts down learning.
5. Why is venting bad for your brain? Only recently it was discovered that venting creates patterns in the brain’s basal ganglia for more of the same negative practices.
6. How can you build dendrite brain cells for a competitive edge? The brain uses the outside world to shape itself, and new dendrites connect daily based on what you do.
7. What happens when you whistle while you work? Music changes your moods up or down, as it slows speeds up or slows your brain waves.
8. Why does talk kill meetings while laughter spells success? The brain retains less than 5% of what is said, while laughter releases enzymes for health and learning.
9. Who are hebbian workers and how do they kill incentive at work? Hebbian workers –old or young – do too many routines – which limits focus and shrinks the brain.
10. Why does diversity training stink? For diversity development to draw together people – rather than divide them – requires input from participants to solve problems at every level.
11. How do brain waves bring you either sleep or peak performances? You have 4 brain wave speeds, and people can learn to activate brain frequencies more appropriate to one’s activity or sleep needs.
12. How do you hook new ideas into people’s brains? Hook new information onto a related fact people already know, and learner increases and in less time.
13. What’s the critical difference between basal ganglia and working memory? The basal ganglia stores routine facts, while working memory holds few facts at any time, and loses these when new facts enter.
14. What are your multiple intelligences and how can workplaces use more? Each person owns at least 8 distinctive intelligences, and these are further developed whenever used at work.
15. How do cynical mindsets impact talent and innovation at work? Cynics can slow brainpower to the speed of a slug – because they increase cortisol … rob serotonin … and shut out talent and innovative opportunities.
16. How can your outsource your memory to get more from it? Examples include … jot down direction details, hang keys in fixed place, start each day with to-do-list.
17. What does the brain’s plasticity have to do with your promotions? Plasticity, enables us to rewire the brain daily into more of who we’d like others to see in us.
18. How can encouragement change the chemistry of a human brain? Sincere encouragers are mental cheerleaders who raise serotonin chemicals in the brain.
19. What’s a meta-message and how do they destroy relationships?
20. How do people solve problems with more of the brain in mind? Use smart skills – which integrate hard and soft skills - to bring more brainpower to solutions at work.
21. What does stress do to the brain, and what makes tone a silent killer? Stress literally shrinks the brain, and poor tone adds cortisol to kill opportunities that come from higher serotonin levels.
22. What happens to your brain when you hear your name spoken? Researchers found that when you hear your name spoken, you receive a sudden spike in personal self-awareness.
23. What happens to the human brain during a lecture? Lectures work against the brain since less than 5% of what listeners hear is retained.
24. Why does teaching your dog beat listening to a lecture? Teach others what you are learning yourself and you retain about 90% of what you teach.
25. How do you build and benefit from new neuron pathways? Each time you add to a solution rather than merely name problems – you build another neuron pathway toward improving that situation.
Complete this brain based survey to answer the question … How brain based is your workplace?
Take 4 points for each correct (or close to correct) response. Anything over 75% lands you or your firm above average.
Scores below 50% indicate that your workplace is likely ready for a retreat to reboot brains and to create rejuvenated ways to draw from more workplace brainpower. Remember to laugh and make growth an adventure - for best results!
Do stay tuned also to Brain Based Business for more answers to new questions about human brainpower to improve your life and reboot your organization. What do you think?
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