{"id":9376,"date":"2020-02-21T18:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:24:47","slug":"maximizing-your-unfocused-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2020\/02\/21\/maximizing-your-unfocused-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximizing Your Unfocused Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

 I just finished reading a great book called \u201cTinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try<\/a>\u201d by Dr. Srini Pillay. In full disclosure, Dr. Pillay and his NeuroBusiness Group are a Cerebyte partner. Srini is a Harvard professor of psychology though much of his work with us is in neuroscience and this book is mostly neuroscience. I wanted to share some highlights since this book is full of great information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is very well written, — I personally loved reading it\n— but sometimes a little challenging to read because it is so packed with\ngreat content The key premise of the book is that our minds have two\nfundamental modes \u2013 the focused mind and the unfocused mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr. Pillay, focused mind is tactical and\ntransactional \u2013 it is our consistent goal focused to-do lists. The unfocused\nmind is the more open, broader, unconstrained processing portions of our mind. One\nof Dr. Pillay\u2019s most interesting findings is that the focused mind processes\ninformation at 6 bits per second and the unfocused mind processes information\nat 11 million bits per second, which is a huge difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think about it in terms of operational excellence versus\ntransformational leaders, operations is the focused mind at work.\nTransformational leadership is using more of the unfocused mind. Obviously, the\nfocused and unfocused minds are doing different things \u2013 one is directly trying\nto achieve a specific outcome and the other is roaming the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Pillay contends that focused and unfocused mind are related\nconcepts that work together to produce a great result. Too much focus causes\nlinear thinking and ultimate frustration. Too much unfocused is too fuzzy and\ndoesn\u2019t result in useful actions. Working together, focus gets things done\nwhile unfocused mind ensures that you are doing the right things in a big\npicture sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He contends, supported by many references and great examples, that\nmost people tend to under-utilize the unfocused mind. The benefits of better\nutilizing the unfocused mind in conjunction with the focused mind are\nconsiderable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n