Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions.

Years of research show us that the less control a person feels over an aversive stimuli coming at them, the more likely they are to disengage. Complete loss of control over a sustained period of time can actually lead to depression. It then follows that giving the person a level of control over the situation reduce the stress - and perhaps restore the disengagement.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.