1 Leadership Lab

Neck-top PC Self-talk - implications Leadership takeaway Agenda 2

The Neck-top PC

One million GB neck-top PC Brain is like a super computer but without an instruction manual –The brain is made of billions of neurons –The efficiency of the brain is not in its size but on the number of connections that the neurons make –Brain is not naturally hard wired; it can be evolved 4

One million GB neck-top PC Our brain is structured to absorb and engage novel information –When we stop learning, we are left only with living in routine We need to upgrade our brain When we stop learning, it becomes hardwired, riddled with automatic programs. 7

What’s happening in the brain? 8 InputProcessOutput 5 senses Thinking Attitude and Behavior

9 Thinking (1) Trigger (2) Thoughts (3) Mood (4) Action What’s happening in the brain?

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Self Talk – Definition and Implications

Every single message you got is recorded and stored We tend to repeat the recorded messages again and again When repeated, it creates bigger pathways… Self Talk

General Positive Negative Self Talk - Types General Positive - Constructive Negative - Destructive

1)What is imagined or expected tends to be realized. 2)Every thought or idea produces a physical response 3)Law of reversed effect 4)New habit patterns can be formed with visual images Rules of Mind

5)Habit patterns can be formed with auto suggestions 6)Attitudes and habits are best learned or changed without effort 7)Once habit pattern has been established, it tend to remain until replaced with a new pattern of behavior 8)Habit pattern can be formed without repetition Rules of Mind

1)To heal our selves 2)To change attitude / behavior 3)Self motivation 4)To push your limits (athletes) 5)To have positive relationship with others Self Talk - Implications

1)Positive – Use affirmations daily. Talk to yourself very positively. Have ready made statements. Use ‘law of repetition’ 2)Negative - Rubber-Band Snap: A trick is to walk around with a rubber band around your wrist; as you notice negative self-talk, pull the band away from your skin and let it snap back. It’ll hurt a little, and serve as a slightly negative consequence that will both make you more aware of your thoughts, and help to stop them! 3)General – Practice silence How to use/control Self Talk

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Leadership Takeaway

1)Self – leadership; Can have control of self and can motivate self and push the limits. Can decide when to release an emotion Can empathize with ‘followers’ 2)Shoot positive statements to others so that others start ‘positive self-talking’ or affirming. How can ‘self-talk’ help Leaders?

3.Use ‘Law of Repetition’ in speeches ‘I have a dream’ by Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Yes We Can’ by Barrack Obama 4.Realize that your comment creates a series of ‘self-talk’ in the minds of others; use words like money How can ‘self-talk’ help Leaders?

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