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Is this the most important and exciting piece of research in years?
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.
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Your brain is a stage with only four actors
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.
Posted in Theory Also tagged accelerated learning, brain, memory, neurology, prefontal cortex, state 2 Comments
What goes around goes around…
I sometimes think it’s interesting to take a step back, reflect on progress and to analyse some aspect of our industry. Whenever I do this however I am more often than not struck by one thing –
It’s funny how things go around.
Many years ago I recall my first inspirational training boss (There have been too [...]
Do you praise effort or talent?
In 1998 Carol S Dweck published a paper called “Praise for intelligence can undermine (children’s) motivation and performance” in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Paul put the brackets around the word children because he thinks this applies equally to adults.
The study compares the impact on performance of praising effort and praising natural talent. The results may influence our reactions to learner behaviour in the training room (and how we respond to our own children).
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