How a leader's brain works

20. 01. 2023

What conclusions can be drawn if we analyze the findings of neuroscience?

Leaders and successful businessmen are forced to be overly active - such is the nature of their brains, they cannot do otherwise.

This changes a lot. We respect some, we try to motivate others in conditions when we are dealing with different types of people - with different physical data (this is if the reticular formation is considered a physiological feature of a person).

Those who have a normal reticular formation, after hearing stories about successful people, will begin to spend more energy, thereby quickly depleting their energy resources, which will take a very long time to restore.

After understanding all this, you will have a desire to find out what the maximum of your capabilities is and whether the existing resources are enough to implement your plan.

Wouldn't it be better to reconsider your energy capabilities in order to live your own happy life, instead of trying to repeat someone else's achievements?

There is such a principle as "The fast one is not the one who runs the fastest, but the one who does not stop".

The essence of this principle is not to stop moving, but to work at the limit of your capabilities. You will never give up and use up your resources ahead of time if you work within your strength, systematically and continuously - it's hard to disagree.

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It turns out that people with an average static reticular formation, in other words, who have received average "mental energy", will be less productive than people with an overactive reticular formation simply because they will not be able to work as much. But there is also a plus in this. Given that more productive people cannot do otherwise and are therefore forced to constantly do something, people with a normal reticular formation can feel happy every day, even without moving mountains.

How can I check if everything is really like this? A person is what he does, and his actions are the result of his decisions and attitudes, or are we driven only by brain impulses, and not by our decisions?

Movement is a source of energy

Many researchers have attached special importance to movement. Movement is a source of energy, when you move, you grow, stopping is degradation.

Let's think about it. We must not allow ourselves to stop, because we will start to go back. To move, we need a goal. The goal is both the direction of movement and the source of energy for movement. Movement itself gives energy, and energy is life.

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All this sounds very good, but brain science and knowledge of the reticular formation tell us a different story, that it is the brain that decides whether we will have energy, whether it will be transformed into movement and whether it will give us the opportunity to live a full life.

Perhaps that is why many do not understand how to set a goal and follow it, believe in yourself and only in this receive strength. Scientific facts say that when we think that we make conscious decisions, in fact, our brain generates decisions, and we only carry them out. In this sense, such concepts as “personality”, “free will”, “conscious decision” only mislead a person.

All this gives rise to various opinions. For example: all our goals are subject only to ensuring the basic needs of our brain. If the brain needs the energy spent to achieve the goal, then the content of our goals depends only on us. We can influence the brain through physical and mental activities, given that the brain is a physical organ like any other and is subject to change.

The main question that arises at this point is - whose choice is it? Do we make it ourselves, or does the brain dictate to us? If the brain does it, then on what basis?