Daylight Savings – a disaster for your brain
How does the time change impact our mental and physical health? Accidents go up by 6 percent after daylight savings Stroke rates are 8 percent...
Sleep – your brain’s superpower
My clients love to respond to my urging them to get more exercise by enthusiastically setting their alarm clocks an hour earlier, so they can...
Reading – a powerful antidote to our times
We’re told from childhood that reading is good for us. Neuroscientist Friederike Fabritius confirms that a simple book can make you more empathetic, improve your...
Gut feelings – bias or intuition?
Most gut feelings are merely superstitions. But in the mind of an expert, a gut feeling can be a highly efficient, largely unconscious product of...
The Power of Surprise
You possess a super power that you may not even be aware of. It’s the power of surprise. Most of us know the role that...
Group flow
Is there anything better than the feeling you get when you’re „in the zone“? Although I imagine that some of you can think of a...
Introverts matter
Offices are primarily designed by extroverts. Unfortunately, between one third and one half of the people who work in those offices identify as introverts. If...
Emotional Labeling
There’s a word for what you’re feeling. Now use it. Most of us, when we’re feeling angry or sad or stressed, are reluctant to put...
Your brain’s response to physical and social pain is virtually identical
If you deliberately broke someone’s leg, they wouldn’t forget it and might never forgive you. Perhaps you know the old schoolyard taunt: „Sticks and stones...
Don’t change the people, change the workplace
Learn why so many diversity trainings fail and how neurochemistry is the missing link. We will cover five aspects of the brain-friendly workplace....