Recent discoveries in neuroscience help explain why different people solve problems so differently.
When we’re born, our brain’s synapses have the potential to fire in any direction. Through relationships, experiences and genetics, they begin to fire in certain patterns.
Like exercising a muscle to build strength, brain cells that “fire together, wire together” - they begin to strengthen certain pathways, so that the next time you think, you’re more likely to think again in that particular sequence.
And then, during puberty, your brain sheds the capacity you haven’t used.
So by the time you’re an adult, your brain is wired to think in certain ways. This is why using your talents creates excellence - you can do it faster and better than people who haven’t been thinking that way their whole lives.
Research of more than two million people by the Gallup Organization has shown that organizations that capitalize on individual strengths are more likely to be profitable and productive than others.
Can your work be more productive (and lucrative) if you leverage your strengths?
And do you know what your strengths are?