by Stuart | May 21, 2013 | MYBW
Free will? One of the experiments that didn’t make it into the Make Your Brain Work book is that of Benjamin Libet in the 1980s. At the time he was a neuropsychologist at the University of California. He wanted to find out the timings of a mental event and compare...
by Stuart | Apr 29, 2013 | MYBW
Want better resources? If you are responsible for a team you’ll know the feeling of wishing you had more resources so you could achieve more. Maybe it is about meeting a deadline sooner, or coming up with more creative solutions to problems or even just getting the...
by Stuart | Apr 2, 2013 | MYBW
Insights are fantastic, like a little surprise gift. They occur when you don’t expect them. They help you solve something. Often you feel a little buzz when you get one. They are notoriously difficult to orchestrate though. Planning to have one, or trying to turn them...
by Stuart | Feb 7, 2013 | MYBW
Being able to take another person’s perspective, make mental models of others and understand another’s perspectives and beliefs is a valuable skill. The theory of mind (what psychologists call these skills) ability starts when we are about 4 years old and continues to...
by Stuart | Jan 22, 2013 | MYBW
At last and it’s never too late! Our executive functions are hugely valuable to us. The quality of them differentiates the people who achieve their goals from those who don’t. They separate the people who get promoted from those who don’t. They even are linked to...
by Stuart | Jan 3, 2013 | MYBW
At the end of 2012 the New York Times published a great article highlighting one of the risks of neuroscience getting into the wrong hands. The writer talks about people who misrepresent the brain and neurochemicals. It is said that ‘today’s pop neuroscience,...
