Brain Fact Friday ”Using Neuroscience to Recognize Individuality and Uniqueness”

<p>Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast.  I’m Andrea Samadi, and launched this podcast just over 3 years ago, with a vision to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and help all of us (whether we are a teacher in the classroom, or in the modern workplace) to understand the most current brain research, and how to use it, for improved productivity and results.</p> <p>On this episode we will cover:</p> <ul><em>We are all unique and our brain makes us this way. ( Chantel Prat Ph.D) </em> <em>If we want to change ourselves in any way, whether it’s to attain new results, or become a new person, it will involve change at the level of our brain. </em> <em>We can change our brain for the better, by repeatedly taking action towards our goals, and strengthening our “roads” or neural pathways.</em> <em>We can also change our brains for the worse. (Dr. Andrew Huberman) </em> <em>As human beings, our job is to help people realize how rare and valuable each of us really is. (Chantel Prat Ph.D)</em> </ul> <p> </p> <p>For this week’s Brain Fact Friday, I want to leverage off something we’ve been talking about on the past few episodes, that we are all unique, and our brain makes us this way with “a pattern of connectivity as unique as our fingerprints.” (Deane Alban).  </p> <p>Have you ever wondered “what makes you unique from others? Or why you do things a certain way?” I certainly have wondered this, and I think back to the days I worked in the motivational speaking industry and when discussing how change occurs, we went straight to the importance of understanding our paradigms, or habitual behavior and that if we want to experience change, we would need to change these habits, that began with changing our thoughts, feelings and actions, to attain the newly desired results. But now I see that there’s a simple answer to why we are unique, or do things in a certain way.</p> <p>I recently came across Chantel Prat’s book<em>, The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain is Diffe