Leading You Me We 15 Leadership Physiology

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Session 15
Leadership Physiology & 
Neuroscience
• Self Sabotage: one part of you sabotages what another part wants.
• An incongruent physiology tells people you're not sure about what you're talking 
about, or that you're conflicted. And that's the kiss of death in Leadership.
• How to get congruent:
1. Let all tension out of your body.
2. Balance your body.
3. Make every movement conscious and deliberate.
4. Develop "presence." Where is your mind? Be here now.
5. Monitor your breath.
• A leader controls their physiology and voice by controlling the pictures and sounds 
in their mind.
1. You develop these skills through practice.
2. Don't wait until you need the skills. Practice now so when you need the skills, 
they're there for you.
• It seems that learning helps us generate new neural connections. If we don't 
continually learn and use what we know, our brain automatically goes in and prunes 
the neural connections we aren't using.
1. The secret to staying young is to keep your mind young. And you do that by 
learning and growing.
• An Iconoclast can consider things in ways that others have never considered.
1. There's a way to think like this - thinking outside the box.
• Your brain uses an unusual amount of the body's resources.
1. It's own internal power management system prevents original thinking. When we 
were running around in tribes, we didn't need as much original thinking as we 
need now.
2. The brain wants to prune connections so it can be more efficient. What we want to 
do is to learn more stuff so we have more options.
3. Original thinkers are excellent at getting their brains to go into a high energy 
consumption mode of imagining things in detail.
4. Practice visualizing in more detail, for longer periods of time.
5. It takes effort, practice, and training.
• When we're imagining and visualizing, we're running our visual system in reverse - 
instead of taking information in, we're pushing information out.
• Novel Experiences trigger this creative, visualizing process.
1. When geniuses have many of their breakthroughs, they are in a novel situation 
that had nothing to do with the breakthrough.
2. When we expose ourselves to novelty, we see things in a new way. It gives us new 
metaphors through which to view everything in our lives.
3. Novelty Triggers Imagination.
4. Novelty also trigger neuro-genesis: more connections between neurons and new 
neurons are created.
5. Novelty also fires off the Amygdala, meaning it rings the alarm bells and triggers 
fear. This is why we're often resistant to new experiences.
6. Manage your stress and tension in your body so you can go into novel situations, 
minimize your fear, and have your breakthroughs.
• Using your imagination creates new brain cells. Pretty amazing.