Training Your Brain to Work More Effectively
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HBR IdeaCast
The problem with the way we work right now is, if you are working in this uniform, continuous way, you’re not giving your brain the chance to enter those optimal states within which it can think, it can produce, it can come up with ideas, the very kind of work that we now, as humans are going to increasingly have to do. MITHU STORONI: Just a little bit of background, we’ve known for the best part of a century now that there’s a hormone, there’s a neurotransmitter, neuromodulator in your brain called norepinephrine, and it has a kind of upside down U-curve, in terms of how it influences the way your mind works, when you’re doing cognitive work, in the sense that too little is bad, too much is bad, and there’s a Goldilocks zone in the middle where your alertness level, your ability to focus…