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Seven Ways to Rewire Your Brain and Become a Better Leader

Your brain learns from what you attend to

Jesse Lyn Stoner
Tue, 01/15/2019 - 12:01
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During the last few decades, studies in neuroscience have shown that you can literally physically rewire your brain. You can change the “default network” you were born with, the one that ensured the survival of our primitive ancestors who lived in a very different world.

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Our “fight-flight” reaction and strong memory for painful experiences are hardwired from birth. Our brains detect negative information faster than positive information and are drawn to bad news. This hardwiring is further reinforced as we grow up because our negative experiences leave an indelible trace in our brain. The brain continues to learn and change itself throughout our life.

The good news is we are capable of overriding our primitive reactions that don’t serve us well and creating new neural pathways that reduce stress and irritability and generate more happiness and wisdom in our lives.

These seven practices create incremental, accumulative changes in the neural structure of your brain and can improve the effectiveness of your leadership and the quality of your life.

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