UPWIRE #161 - Why Your Brain Fails to Aim at Your Best Future
Release Date: 03/11/2016
UPWIRE: Hacking Human Nature
The brain loves big, complicated, later and never. Exceptional leaders and teams choose the exact opposite: breakthroughs and rules that are small, simple, now and next. In this UPWIRE, we'll look at how the smallest change can make the biggest difference in your life and work.
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info_outlineThink about your future. Do you want the future you deliberately create or the one that happens to you? Although it doesn't want to help, you need your brain's help to create your best possible future.
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll look at how we can change what's holding us back in our brain so we can change it.