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How the brain performs immersive work

How the brain performs immersive work

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How the brain performs immersive work

- To get your team buzzing with clarity, intuition and focus, we need to look at how our brains perform immersive work. I'm talking about the state of mind where your unbroken concentration generates your best thinking, quality innovation and deep insights. Immersive work improves engagement. It helps people to love their job. It means that people create something that they know is really special. Insights from neuroscience are giving us a wealth of knowledge to translate into the workplace to ensure that your employees have the capacity for immersive working. The first thing to remember when it comes to immersive work is that it's magical and completely ordinary. It isn't, as it used to be thought, about creativity, a skill that only some can possess. Everyone has the potential to immerse themselves in their work. K. Anders Ericsson, a professor at Florida State University whose work inspires a lot of Malcolm Gladwell's book on greatness, shares great insights in various papers about…

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