Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Thanks for this post and pointer, Ellen. It's an interesting contract to the article in the Atlantic by Nicholas Carr titled, "Is Google making us Stupid?" Here's a snippet.

"My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle. "

And here's a link to the article

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

I'd love to hear your reaction. Mine is contained in a post called "Tools for Fools I."

http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2008/09/22/tools-for-fools-i.aspx

Wow -- how interesting, Wally, and so full of potential for anybody interested in the high-performance mind!

In fact, this is far too valuable a topic and perspective for the comment box, and I will be adding a post soon to Brain Leaders and Learners. Thanks for the wonderful triggers and insight!