The Neuro Edge brings the complex world of neuroscience into everyday relevance for those engaged in leading, developing and supporting people in organisations.
This book explains the inner workings of the brain and its role in determining our thoughts, feelings and instincts and examines the role of the heart and gut as part of our wider intelligence system. Key insights throughout illustrate why it is so important to update our knowledge of human nature and not remain stuck in outdated thinking — potentially taking us all to a whole new level of understanding and performance.
It takes around 80 milliseconds to register an emotion compared with 250 milliseconds to register a thought.
