How to optimise your brain and improve your performance - with Dr. Mary Rensel of Brain Ops Group

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#145 - Neurologist and Brain Ops Group co-founder Dr Mary Rensel explains how you can optimise your brain health, improve your performance and increase your confidence and resilience.
What you'll learn

• [4:03] What optimising your brain means.
• [5:29] How optimising your brain improves productivity and other areas of your life.
• [6:24] The changes you can expect from taking steps to optimise your brain.
• [7:34] What “resiliency” means and why it’s so important.
• [9:48] The confidence healthy lifestyle actions give you.
• [11:16] Different healthy lifestyle actions that help look after your brain.
• [13:58] Diets that help maintain brain function.
• [15:53] How sleep deprivation affects the brain.
• [17:06] How movement affects blood flow to the brain.
• [18:25] How the people around you contribute to your brain activity and life expectancy.
• [22:25] The effect social connections have on your brain.
• [24:51] How big your social network should be.
• [26:41] What emotional processing is and how to practise emotional awareness.
• [31:01] Why your brain is more sensitive when you first wake up.
• [32:35] How to get yourself out of a mid-afternoon slump.
• [34:49] How employers can help support their employee's mental well-being.
• [36:18] The first steps to improving your brain health.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Big Potential, Shawn Achor
• The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:
https://changeworklife.com/how-to-optimise-your-brain-and-improve-your-performance/

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