The Neuro-Shifts of Advantage-Making

Your brain is a social organ…

Research has shown the same brain regions that directly indicate you are experiencing physical pain also indicate when you have been socially rejected…. OUCH

In your instinctive brain (brainstem), your well being is handled (fortunately)…and at times mishandled(survival fight or flight)

In your emotional brain (midbrain), your interactions are effective (good feelings) …and at times misunderstood (amydala distress)

In your cognitive brain (neo-cortex) your ideas are thoughtful(anticipate and make good solutions)…and at times misguided (a  narrow perspective reaches the wrong conclusions)

 

Are you using your brain to your advantage?

You have high stakes challenges, you need to influence your colleagues, you need to create a new strategy, you need to make a decision and get on with it, and balance work with LIFE so to speak.

To do so you need to make targeted neuro-shifts that will support your brainpower. You want your nervous system, the network of interactions, to find ways around the obstacles, When you allow circumstances to dictate your responses, it may be because you aren’t using your brain in strong ways…
Your brain is confident if you
  • a) don’t get in its way or
  • b) know how to move out of negative, counterproductive states…
  • c) shift to advantage-making frameworks…
There may be switching costs to get out of the non-productive neural pathways… but it is less expensive when you know the neuro-shift to make… and it takes a few seconds.
The faster you make the neuro-shift the better…
Your brain likes speed, its economical…
Wasting time repeating what doesn’t work expecting it to be different, is technically – insanity
Neuro-shifts are a quick, small action that can lead to a big gain…  it’s a brain-frame that adopt the right angle to gain a winning perspective
When you are up against an obstacle, limitation, constraint, make the quickest neuro-shift you can:
  • Neuro-Shift the question: The quality of the questions you ask determines the quality of your life…
  • Neuro-Shift  Time: you brain likes things you can do now… good or bad, but now…so do something good now for now or for your future…
  • Neuro-Shift Interactions: replace repeating mishandled interactions with a small opposite, ie. instead of pushing, ask
  • Neuro-Shift Perceptions: orient toward what you want while recognizing dangers; learn the social psychology of influence
  • Neuro-Shift Structures: structure shapes behavior, we have disabling and enabling structures, employing the neuro-structures of success leads to your advantage…

Each neuro-shift will increase your sense of confidence and advance your forward.

To your advantage…