These complex and turbulent times stretch us all to increase our capacity to live and work within an environment of escalating intensity and uncertainty, while building our change resilience, deepening our wisdom, and maintaining optimum health.
Research from both modern cognitive and neuro-science, and insights from the great wisdom traditions of our world offer inspiring evidence that by understanding and refining our minds we enhance the functioning of our brains, our physical health, relationships, and the wisdom, compassion, creativity, and intuition that we bring to our lives and work in the world.
Recent research on neuroplasticity demonstrates that as we train our minds, we change and improve the workings and structure of our brains. What we value and care about, we attend to, and the force of our attention literally sculpts and shapes the circuitry of our brains.
“Here is the very heart and soul of the matter of leadership:
If you seek to lead, invest 50% of your time (attention)
leading yourself:
your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct.
...Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people
to do the same.
All else is trivial.”
Dee Hock,
Founder and CEO Emeritus Visa International
“And in all of my experience,
I’ve never seen lasting solutions to problems, lasting happiness and success,
that came from the outside in.”
Stephen Covey