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  • This is fulfillment in life depends on the balance of these 4 hormones

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work

    Cortisol – Stress related

    Dopamine – Addictive chemical stimulated by rewards and is short lived

    Serotonin – Leadership hormone

    Oxytocin – Love hormone leads to fulfillment

    “May your cortisol levels stay low, your dopamine levels high, your oxytocin run thick and rich, your serotonin build to a lovely plateau, and your ability to watch your brain at work keep you fascinated until your last breath. I wish you well on your journey.”

  • Are you into constant emailing and text messaging?This will make you think again

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work

    “A study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test. It was five points for women, and fifteen points for men. This effect is similar to missing a night’s sleep. For men, it’s around three times more than the effect of smoking cannabis.”

  • Are you mindful?This is a great insight on mindfulness

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work

    “Mindfulness is a habit, it’s something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it’s a skill that can be learned. It’s accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is to remember to be mindful.”

  • The human brain craves for simplicity.This explains

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work

    “Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.”

  • Are you aware of this innate working of human brain?

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work, enlightens us on the innate working of the human brain.

    “We all often think about what’s easy to think about, rather than what’s right to think about.”

  • This is when the study on CREATIVITY began

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “In the mid-1960s, two soon-to-be-legendary University of Chicago social scientists—Jacob Getzels and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi—began studying the elusive subject of creativity.”

  • This is the FIRST step to SALESMANSHIP

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “The “first step in salesmanship” was “autosuggestion,” “the principle through which the salesman saturates his own mind with belief in the commodity or service offered for sale, as well as in his own ability to sell.”

  • From “BUYER BEWARE” to “SELLER BEWARE”, this is how selling has evolved

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “The balance of power has shifted—and how we’ve moved from a world of caveat emptor, buyer beware, to one of caveat venditor, seller beware—where honesty, fairness, and transparency are often the only viable path.”

  • The correlation between EXTROVERSION and SALES PERFORMANCE

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “Across the thirty-five studies, the correlation between extraversion and sales performance was a minuscule 0.07.)”

  • One of the most revealing truths about SELLING

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book To Sell is Human

    “Researchers have found that extroversion has “no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance”