Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Here are five surefire ways to stall learning and shut down brainpower at work.

1. Demand attention and criticize every mistake you spot along the way, so that people around you run to keep up with your demands … and hide to avoid your criticism.

2. Come to work stressed to the gills and pass anxiety around freely by the way you communicate, and demand and worry, so that brains literally shrink in and around you.

3. Spout many meta messages so that people can never really take what you say as truly what you mean. Confuse people and communicate back with insincerity that stunts growth with you and prevents any learning adventure.

4. Describe how overwhelmed you are, but don’t make any efforts to organize your day for change or adventure or generosity to yourself and others around you. Focus on chaos ... but give no time or talent to creating well-being.

5. Insist you do things perfectly already, and repeat that often so that everybody else gets it … and then refuse to listen to any suggestions for change or growth. Stay Hebbian and influence others to do the same.

Sound like a recipe for brain shrinkage and sour circles to you?

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