You may not be aware of important work your brain completes while you sleep. For instance … new research shows how people process recent experiences into long-term memories. How does it work?
While you snooze … the brain replays your day's events … much faster than you actually experienced them.
It’s how the brain organizes long-term recall … according to Matthew Wilson … a neurobiologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Why play back events during sleep?
This process ... allows your brain to transfer memories from short-term storage ... into longer-term storage areas. The magical shifts take place during deeper sleep cycles … and may even be linked to dreaming, we are told.
What are business implications?
1. Sleep long enough nightly to allow your brain to rewire … in order to strengthen memory. Many workers fight sleeplessness and sleep deprivation can create disaster at work.
2. How you live daily … reshapes your brain while you sleep. Engage only in those thoughts and actions that you hope to hardwire into your stored memory nightly. Let negativity and failure go. Simply stated … what you live and think today … will help to shape new neurons pathways … for tomorrow’s step forward.
It’s how Thomas Edison never failed … but just wired 10,000 ways that won’t work ... into his sleeping brain. You?
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