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Why Inspiration Matters
The 5 key roles of leadership
- Using strategic vision to motivate and inspire.
- Empowering employees at all levels.
- Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge.
- Gathering and integrating external information.
- Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity.
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Exercise your mind
Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body.
Make time to read books that help you make positive changes in your life. Then put into practice what you learn every day.
Alone time
Alone time is just as important as socializing time. It is important to stay alone for you to understand your thoughts and emotions at a deeper level.
When spending time alone, put your phone and other devices away. Turn off the television and meditate for a couple of minutes. Sit down comfortably. Close your eyes and ask yourself, “What do I want? “
Listen to music
You can get inspired by listening to good music. If you are feeling tired and stressed out, just listen to good music. It makes you feel peaceful, happy and relaxed.
And you can only get inspired if you are peaceful, happy and relaxed
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Curiosity leads us to generate alternatives
When our curiosity is triggered, we are less likely to fall prey to confirmation bias (looking for information that supports our beliefs rather than for evidence suggesting we are wrong) and to stereotyping people (making broad judgments).
Curiosity and innovation
Encouraging people to be curious generates workplace improvements.
When we are curious, we view tough situations more creatively. Studies have found that curiosity is associated with less defensive reactions to stress and less aggressive reactions to provocation.
Reduced group conflict
Curiosity encourages members of a group to put themselves in one another’s shoes and take an interest in one another’s ideas rather than focus only on their own perspective.
Thus, conflicts are less heated, and groups achieve better results.
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Music and memory
Music helps with making memories from long ago feel relevant again. When you hear a song that had specific meaning to you in the past, the memory of that moment will come back with unbelievable details.
Alzheimer’s patients can sing the songs that they learned as young adults. This is a promising step in treating patients suffering from dementia and those with brain injuries.
Music improves your focus
This happens because music stimulates the entire brain and not just segments of it. Using this knowledge can help you in various ways.
- Meditation. Some people use music to help them clear their minds.
- Listening to music while studying or working can help you remember more of the information.
- During exercise. It takes the mind’s focus off of fatigue.
- Focus on sleep. Music calms the mind and causes you to focus on your rest.
Music increases your creativity
Ambient music at 70 decibels will increase specific creative tasks by activating the parts of the brain that think in abstract ways.