Your Brain on Inspiration: Assurance

Your Brain on Inspiration: Assurance

In this blog series, we share simple ways to optimize inspiration. Our last blog looked at the relationship between status and feeling inspired. Today we focus on ways to boost inspiration by increasing our innate need for Assurance, one of the six conditions for...
Hardwiring Habits: Empathy & Empowerment

Hardwiring Habits: Empathy & Empowerment

Research aligns with our own experience: We are more likely to innovate, collaborate and be resilient, when backed by a supportive leader. Not a leader who only cares, but one whom we believe in, and whose style and vision motivates and inspires us.  The most...
Hardwiring Habits: Insight

Hardwiring Habits: Insight

What habits are you hardwiring each day? This blog series shares research-based ideas about habits worth your attention so you can be more effective, feel happier and live your best life. Our Daily Noise Are you trapped in a series of back-to-back meetings or working...
Brain Benefits of Beta-carotene

Brain Benefits of Beta-carotene

Whether you prefer pumpkin pie or pumpkin carving, there are many benefits to this big orange vegetable: Carving pumpkins comes from a centuries old Irish tradition and myth about a devious man named ‘Stingy Jack.’ The name ‘Jack o’ lantern’ (Jack of the lantern)...