What if the six inches between your ears contain the power of a bunch of super-computers?
They do, of course (see links, below*).
Can you harness a significant amount of that power, skillfully and systematically, to build your career and business, in an economy of complexity and information overload?
Can you guide your team to use that power? Can you direct this capacity towards the things that super-computers can’t do: innovation, effective communication, relationship-building, collaboration and results?
Brains are wonderful, but they have two drawbacks.
1. They don’t come with a users’ manual. There is a widespread scarcity of training for leveraging their real capacity. This is serious, because thinking tools are needed for single users, or for those who need to think effectively in collaboration with others.
2. Power in any form is intimidating. Brains are very powerful, and success creates expectations.
Those who think well often acquire new responsibilities for problem solving, conflict resolution, project success etc.
If you have a good toolbox of thinking strategies, you may be expected to guide others through complexity, or show them how to step up to 21st century challenges. This can interfere with hobbies, community service or relaxing on the sofa in front of TV. There are many people who are not really interested in learning how to think well, because their comfort zone would be disturbed by their true abilities.
*1: Video: Your amazing brain: http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html
2: Read: We have no computers today that can begin to approach the awesome power of the human mind: http://insidehpc.com/2009/03/12/even-supercomputers-not-yet-close-to-the-raw-power-of-human-brain/
3: Browse: Google “human brain power supercomputer teraflops.”
