Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Thanks for the interesting link.
You have a great gift for making esoteric research approachable and usable. I think I'll stick with your blog.

Thanks Karl - for stopping by and for your kind words. It often strikes me that terrific facts are flying fast -- but as we catch a few and use them to benefit ourselves and those around us -- we could possibly rebuild what is lost in the sinking organizations.

It's what I think we share in common -- as I read your own fine site over at Bold Enterprises. We're just going about it from different angles -- which is cool! Great find and I'll bookmark.

Great post, Ellen. There are many bravos and a small quibble for me.

I'm careful how I apply brain facts, that's why this blog is one of my daily reads.

As for stress. The quote on chronic stress is dead on, but not all stress is bad. Learning and growth are both stressors. For me the idea is to alternate stress and recovery and, yes, "run from" situations of chronic stress which drain the soul as well as the body.

I've been reading some articles lately about the work of Eric Kandel and they, like this post have got me thinking about how little we know about how the creation long term memory actually works.

The brain is definitely built for lifetime learning. It's like a magic bowl, the more you put in it, the bigger it gets.

And exercise improves brain health but also the ability to make decisions and the stamina to make them longer.

Great stuff, Ellen.

Great insights Wally, and you are so right about the vast oceans yet to explore on the brain. Luckily the ships are heading out in great directions to do just that through so many neuro breakthroughs lately:-)

As to the "good stress" == you are also right. However - it is more adrenalin than stress that comes from the danger hormones I refer to. Many people who mix these up, tend to bypass the horrors that come from stress and ignore the signs that they fall into stress daily.

That's why I call the adrenalin rush by names other than stress -- to keep the dangerous kind out front and central -- and to show how horribly destuctive we now know it really is.

Does that make sense - or do you see it another way?

Makes sense, Ellen. Many of the trainers who work with high risk occupations and others like Jim Loehr refer to "arousal." What are the terms you prefer?