You might be at your most creative when you’re hyper-focused and immersed in a task. Or perhaps it’s when your mind wanders, and you shift your attention to another task (or to nothing at all). Three different networks in the brain are likely involved with creativity: the executive attention network, default mode network, and salience network. These networks help you concentrate and detect errors, create pictures in your mind, and filter important ideas from less important ones.

When we are learning something new, neurons from different brain regions communicate with each other. With more exposure and practice over time, your brain creates stronger, more efficient communication between neurons.

Professor Chantel Prat discusses "The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours," a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what’s average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. "The Neuroscience of You" helps us see how brains that are engineered differently ultimately take diverse paths when it comes time to prioritize information, use what they’ve learned from experience, relate to other people, and so much more.

A briefing on the cognitive properties of experience.

Meditation is like a gym for your brain. If you follow through and exercise (in this case, your brain) every single day... pretty soon you'll see results.

Sara Lazar spoke at the Celebrating Delightful Moments and the Tech Vectors of Happiness event, the official launch of Joyance Partners. She shared the results of recent studies on how meditation changes the brain, showing a capacity for increased levels of empathy and creativity, and decreased levels of stress and depression.

What mindset is needed to lead a transformation? Michael Apollo shares the practice and research of mindfulness for executives and workplace leaders in the midst of transformation.

What motivates people making economic decisions? You might assume people are rational decision-makers and that they always choose the option that earns them the most money. But, that’s often not the case. With insights from neuroscience, behavioral economics research seeks to understand why people are often predictably irrational when it comes to economic decision-making.

How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know.

‘Perfectionists’ are generally held in high-esteem: praised for their self-discipline and refusal to compromise. Yet in truth, the trait is a manifestation of self-hatred - and must be overcome if we are ever to feel truly fulfilled.