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Designing Sustainable Behavior-Change with Habit Design (Michael Kim) #ASTD2014

Learning Visions

FMRI and more insight into the brain. At Kairos Labs they partner with 100+ behavioral scientists. In Switch – Behavioral Economics – motivation and willpower is like riding the elephant. You have to think about where someone is on that wave when you introduce training or behavior change. Habit = unconscious behaviors.

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What Does Your Brain Learn from Multi-tasking?

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Neuroscience has discovered what psychology long suspected – our brain doesn’t really perform multiple cognitive tasks at the same time. Repeated multi-tasking could even be causing physical damage to your brain. It turns out that our brain actually is working against itself in this case. The idea is a simple one.

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4 Lessons from Digital Learning – How Digital Learning is Transforming Our World and Rewiring our Brains

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I could have opened the minuscule user guide that came with the device, but I was in a hurry, and caffeine withdrawal was already kicking in. The same brain that can be such a remarkable, proactive learning machine can become lazy and passive – particularly if passivity and conformity are rewarded generation after generation.

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How to Think Like a Dog

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I often write about how the human race evolved and how we developed our finely tuned survival machines – our brains. How different would we be if all human brains were replaced with those of dogs? This is because the cerebral cortex , the seat of higher cognition, is less developed in dog brains.

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Deploy brain-friendly leadership models in your organization

CLO Magazine

Too often, there is a lack of alignment around an organization’s leadership model , a specific set of phrases that is designed to guide leadership behavior across a particular organization. It can be a long and arduous process to design an effective leadership model that results in consistent leadership behavior across the organization.

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Emotional intelligence is a critical skill for development

CLO Magazine

According to Monarth, “Emotional intelligence is the ability to both recognize your own emotions [and] understand your own emotions, and the impact they have on your thinking, on your behavior, as well as how your emotions impact the thinking and behaviors of others, the feelings of others.” Five is emotional courage.

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Tan Le, Measuring Brain Activity: Second Day Keynote at #ATDTK

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Tan Le, Emotiv Technology (building brain-based computer interfaces), bio-sensing devices that track how the brain responds. What''s missing now: devices that help us track our cognitive, behavioral, and mental health well-being. She gravitated to learning about the brain. Forgive any typos or incoherencies.

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