"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough.
If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."
A constantly evolving array of tools, templates, tactics, techniques & tips to turbo-charge your creativity & innovation, personally, professionally & organisationally, with specially dedicated contributions from Dilip Mukerjea, Learning Chef & Braindancer
"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough.
If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."
Focus Time
When we closely focus on tasks in a goal-oriented way, taking on challenges that make deep connections in the brain.
Play Time
When we allow ourselves to be spontaneous or creative, playfully enjoying novel experiences, which helps make new connections in the brain.
Connecting Time
When we connect with other people, ideally in person, richly activating the brain’s social circuitry.
Physical Time
When we move our bodies, aerobically if possible, which strengthens the brain in many ways.
Time In
When we quietly reflect internally, focusing on sensations, images, feelings and thoughts, helping to better integrate the brain.
Down Time
When we are non-focused, without any specific goal, and let our mind wander or simply relax, which helps our brain recharge.
Sleep Time
When we give the brain the rest it needs to consolidate learning and recover from the experiences of the day.
"Innovation is executing something real in a different way than has ever worked before.
I emphasize execution because I believe ideas are all in the ether, and nothing under the sun is completely original.
But how you put things together, for what purpose and how it is used, amplified and impacts the people it reaches has the potential to be completely unique.
Real innovation has impact,... "
"... Leadership in the 21st century not only requires the ability to continuously manage crisis and change – but also the circular vision to see around, beneath and beyond the obvious in order to anticipate the unexpected before circumstances force your hand... "
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."