Recently, we discovered a little about the prefrontal cortex, looked at David Rock’s “actors on the stage” metaphor and applied it to the early driving experience of Paul’s son.
In this post we get down to the nitty gritty of what is going on and how brain friendly trainers can apply it to learning in any situation.
In his book Your Brain At Work David Rock likens the pre-frontal cortex to a theatrical stage.
At various times there will be actors on the stage and it is these actors that we are describing when we talk about what we are focussed on.
So right now you may have a reading actor on your stage as you read this, you may also have a musical actor on stage if you are playing some background music, you may have your e-mail sorting actor on stage and / or potentially one or more of many.
As we discover more and more about neuroscience and how the brain works, I find myself making more and more connections to learning and training.
For sometime Ally and I have been talking about the importance of really good set-ups in brain friendly learning; whether it’s the pre-programme invitation or the set up for the day [...]
Several years ago, Bob Pike suggested, in his book, “Creative Training Techniques”, that:
Adults are just babies in big bodies – they learn in the same way!
Recently, John Medina (pictured above) extended this idea by suggesting that our natural curiosity and need to explore is as relevant to adult neural development as it is for children.
Babies [...]
