stima congress 2014 - the festival edition: presentation theo compernolle

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Prof Dr Theo Compernolle MD., PhDScience Made Simple And Usefull

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WHAT IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT TOOL

to be successfulin rapidly changing times?WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR BRAIN

to be more productive and less stressed?

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Email = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

Phone while driving =

1. Being alwaysconnected

2. Multitasking

3. Stress (even low level if continuous)

4. Lack of sleep

5. Working in brain-jails(formerly called open offices)

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There is nothing wrong

with the technology !

The problem is the way

we use these great tools !

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stylespiNNaker brain simulator: primitively simulates 1 million neurons: 450 kg. 50.00 watt.

1,5 kg. 30 watts

Primitive simulation of brain’s 80 billion neurons:

Size of Boeing hangar. 40.000 tons. 4.000 Gwatt

80 billion (miljard) neurons +80 billion glia = 160 billion processing cells

With 1.000 to over 200.000 connections! Possible combination= flabbergasting

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YOUR BRAIN: 80 trillion connections ( = x 2000)

connected with 50-100 trillion of body cells

= 150 trillion connections to connect everything

(= x 4000) ... and IT WORKS

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ALWAYS

CONNECTED

= Root problem

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M-9

Always On- Always ConnectedHow it is sold: you choose: you can be

available any time, anywhere

Always on gulliver

How it really is: no choice: you must be

available all the time and everywhere

External must or internal must

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10M-10

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M-11

Very high risk of being irrational,misled by emotions, cognitive biases, heuristics, instincts…

For less stupid errors, for more creativity: reflect (or drill).

Cfr Bill Gates “Thinking week”

Reactive is primitive

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M-12

Past

Present

Future

Fantasy

Our three brainstwo brainsREFLECTING-BRAIN

Sensory Now Is All*

REFLEX-BRAIN

*SNIA: the immediately present sensory world of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, pain, balance, body awareness,

temperature and acceleration.

ARCHIVING-BRAIN

Needs a break

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Two brains competing for the same working memory

in a zero-sum game

REFLECTING-BRAINARCHIVING-BRAIN

Your archiving-brain needs a break and a good night of sleep

Your reflecting-brain needs them to recuperate

working-memory

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DISCONNECT TO HAVE A BREAKTO ARCHIVE

TO RECUPERATE

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT

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M-15

two brains stream

Reflecting Brain

IDEAChoice

Decision

Action

Sequential Processor: only ONE thought at a time

Conscious reflection: SLOW

“imagine”

“what if?”

“considering…”

“lets talk first”

“lets postpone judgment…”

You ± know

what it knows

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M-16

hardwired shortcuts

two brains stream

ActionChoice

Decision

You don’t

know what

it knows

Unconscious reflexes: FAST

Parallel processor

Reflex Brain

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hardwired shortcuts

two brains stream

Reflective Brain

ActionChoice

Decision

Automation/expertisepractice, training + immediate feedbackpredictable situation

Conscious reflection: SLOW

Unconscious reflexes: FAST

Reflex BrainSoft-wired shortcuts intuitions

From slow reflective to fast reflex via long practice

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Two brains caracteristics

M-18

Reflective Brain Reflex Brain

•Unconscious

•Ad hoc: sensory now is all

•Parallel: many things at the same time

•Extremely fast non-rational shortcuts

•No need for conscious attention

... attention is drawn•Needs very little brain-energy

•Selfish: survival + procreation

•Shared with all animals with a brain

•Very old in evolution

•Conscious

•Can disconnect form reality

•Sequential: one thing at a time

•Slow, logical, rational

•Needs concentration,

... paying attention

•Gulps energy

•Can be wise, ethical, creative

•Uniquely human

•Very recent in evolution

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DISCONNECT TO REFLECT

or to have a true conversation

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT

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MULTITASKING

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M-21

Do you want a car mechanic

doing a brake job on you car

while he is multitasking?

When you think you can do your job well while multitasking

You are WRONG and you know it!

MULTITASKING IS VERY IGNORANT

You know multitasking is not a good idea !!or… is your job less difficult, less important?

Do you want a surgeon

operating on you

while she is multitasking?

Mechanic surgeon

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M-22

Oude jonge vrouw

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Context switching

Our Reflective Brain:

Serial processing

Context Switch Switching Cost = BIG LOSS

SERIAL MULTITASKING: switching cost = huge loss of time

Stop task 2

Move data 2 from work.mem to temp.mem

Clean working memory Load data 3 from LM or TM

Build-up concentration

Do task 3

longerloss loss loss

longer longer

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Every interruption is a switch!

Every beep or pop-up = 2 minutes of concentration lost !

PRODUCTIVITY DISAPPEARS WITHOUT A TRACE

IN THE BLACK HOLE OF SWITCHING!

People in open offices get interrupted every three minutes

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PARALLEL MULTITASKING : time lost + information lost

Problem #1: you are continuously SWITCHING

Loss of energy, memory, reflection, understanding etc…

Remember:

And it’s even much worse than that !!!

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PARALLEL MULTITASKING : loss of information and time

Problem #2: Partial attention = ILLUSION !!

Your reflecting brain can only pay attention to ONE “channel” at a time

Total loss

The reality of what you do: FRACTURED attention

Total loss Total loss

Total loss Total loss Total loss

While you do emails you do NOT hear what is being said!

People who think they hear it when it’s important are WRONG !!

They are deceiving themselves, and their brain helps because…

It’s even worse than that !!!

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PARALLEL MULTITASKING : time lost + information lost

If you think you hear/see it when it’s important you are WRONG !!

Your brain hates the gaps and fills them in guessing what’s lost!

GUESS GUESS GUESS

GUESS GUESS GUESS

Problem: while simultaneous/parallel multitasking ex. in meeting

YOU DO NOT HEAR WHAT’S SAID

YOU HEAR THINGS THAT ARE NOT SAID

Problem #3: your brain fills the gaps guessing !

Efficient ???

Until today: Ignorant. After today: STUPID !

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M-28

BABY DEAD IN CAR

Baby died, forgotten in a car

on a hot parking

1. BEING ALWAYS ON/ALWAYS CONNECTED

your body is in one place, your mind in another

and your mind is in reactive mode

2. MULTITASKING: especially if you combine tasks from totally

different domains like work and home.

Never forget: Our conscious brain cannot multitask

3. NEGATIVE STRESS: too much stress and/or too long stress.

Negative stress makes clever people behave stupidly

4. LACK OF SLEEP undermines memory and other intellectual

functions

Only one is enough to significantly increase the risk of

making very big, stupid, mistakes yourself!

How is this possible ??

This would never happen to me !!!!

You are totally wrong!!!! It can happen to you too, with a combination of:

Sculpture by Ron Mueck

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M-29

600 million years from first brain to singletasking “human brain” 30 years of multitasking1/20millionth in history of the brain

1/20.000.000 th

Change your brain=wrong

FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO ZAPPIENS

TO HOMO INTERRUPTUSYou cannot train or change your reflecting brain to multitask

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M-30

PSTR DON’T MULTITASK

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M-31

Einstein MULTITASK

It's not that I'm so smart,

It's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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ERADICATE SWITCHES

Ruthlessly, Radically

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT

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Stop taskswitching. Start RIGHT-tasking

Reflection Batch eMail Batch Shit Batch

Finish a batch

+ pause

finish

Do single tasking neuro

RIGHT-tasking !!! = BATCHPROCESSING

It takes 4 times more time for a lousy job

Finish a batch

+ pause

Finish a batch

+ pause

x Batch eg family

Finish a batch

+ pause

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styleIf you keep multitasking after today, then admit that you do it

Because you are not very clever (unlikely)

Because you are struggling with a neurosisNeeding to feel important or show importance, needed; lack of self

confidence, being a pleaser, lack of self respect, not taking responsibility

while blaming others, lack of willpower, etc…

Because you are addicted

After today, you can no longer claim ignorance!

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Rule nr 1

Ruthlessly, radically, eradicate switchesRule nr 2

Disconnect to reflectRule nr 3

Disconnect for a break

THE THREE COMMANDMENTS

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USING PHONE

WHILE DRIVING

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M-37

QQQBellen hand handsfree

What % greater risk of causing an accident?

•10% more risk

•20%

•30%

•50%

•70%

•Double risk

•Threefold risk

•Fourfold risk

•More than fivefold risk

•10% more risk

•20%

•30%

•50%

•70%

•Double risk

•Threefold risk

•Fourfold risk

•More than fivefold risk

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M-38

SMS is criminal

18-25 year: 70% text, 81% reply, 92% read texts

From today on, you can no longer claim ignorance!

Hence if you do it again it will be

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Eyes off road in seconds

RISK OF ACCIDENT

1” 2”

2 seconden ogen weg

Phone, GPS, kids…

Texting while driving:

eyes off road 5 seconds, repeatedly

5 seconds at 70km / hour = 100m

= driving length of football field BLIND!

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“CarPlay has been designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an

incredible experience using their iPhone in the car,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s

vice president of iPhone and iOS Product Marketing. “iPhone users always

want their content at their fingertips and CarPlay lets drivers use their iPhone in

the car with minimized distraction.“

DON’T BELIEVE THEM ! Voice command is even worse !

It’s your life! They are misleading you if not lying !! like drug dealers pushing their dangerous products on people addicted to their phone

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Gezichtsveld bellende driver

Visual scanning

Handsfree makes NO difference. It’s about attention !Attention

Not distracted

Not distracted

On the phone

On the phonePictures courtesy David Strayer, University of Utah.

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M-42

“…but what’s the difference between talking on

phone and talking with passenger…”The difference is very big, except if emotional conversation.

•Passenger is in the same context

•Adapts the content, the pace of the conversation to the traffic

situation, sometimes proactively,

•Traffic part of conversation helping to stay focused

•When swift action needed, no explanation to passenger.

On the phone:

•Smaller field of vision, less focus and less scanning

•Takes more time to disconnect mentally

•You do not stop in mid-sentence

•You often add an “Excuse me I have…”

•Difference is half a second = double normal reaction time.

•At 70 km/hour (43,5 m) this is a difference of 10 meters (11 y) .

This is the difference between a close-call and an accident.

PASSENGER

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M-43

Stop JUST DON’t

BLANCO

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Rule nr 1

Ruthlessly, radically, eradicate switchesRule nr 2

Disconnect to reflectRule nr 3

Disconnect for a break

To save a life, maybe your own

NEVER EVER use ICT while driving!

THE THREE COMMANDMENTS

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BADLY

DESIGNED

OFFICESmore info at www.brainchains.info

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style“Because modern ZOO-directors

know more about the inborn needs

of their animals, than most

company-directors about the innate

needs of people…

the cages in modern zoo's are better

for animals, than most modern

offices for people.”

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Of professionals

consider open offices

with 4 people or more

the best place to work!Why don’t you listen to the 96 %?

(Survey: n=1078. ± 50/50 managers/other professionals)

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more info at www.brainchains.info

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M-50

Multittaksing kids are worse

Multitasking children are not better

but worse at it than older people!

The more multitasking and taskhoping, the worse homework, worse grades,

worse concentration, worse thinking…

Better in fast information retrieval… which is exactly the next brainwork that

computers will take over very soon! It’s a low skill job.

To often they paste this information together, without much thinking, without

getting the quintessence.

Help them, guide them!

“It's not so much that the video game is going to rot your brain,

it's what you are not doing that's going to rot your life" Edward Hallowell

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My Hypothesis: hyperconnectivity is only a problemfor older generations not for digital natives

What do you think?

Six discoveries in my review of the literature repudiate my idea

1. Hyperconnected youngsters are not ICT-savvy at all

2. hyper-connected youngsters are better at two skills, but these are low-level ICT

skills

3. young hypertaskers are just like adult hypertaskers: they are worse at multitasking,

not better

4. hyper-connected youngsters do significantly worse at school

5. hyperconnectivity has a negative impact on emotional and social development

6. hyperconnectivity of kids creates a new social divide

The sad overall conclusion: my original hypothesis is totally and utterly wrong.

Hyper-connected children perform worse intellectually, emotionally and socially and are

even worse at multitasking

The problem is not what kids do with ICT, but what they don’t do

A challenge for parents, teachers, managers and employers

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M-53

Sleep duration

disease

Slaapduur + gebrek

Lack of sleep:- Sugar tolerance ↓thyroid hormone ↓

- Cortisol ↑ Immune system ↑ ↑

- Aging↑ Weight ↑ (6h 2x more obese><8h)

- Diabetes ↑ Live shorter !

BRAIN!!

Patience ↓↓

Feeling for nuance ↓Insight ↓

Judgement ↓

Concentration↓ ↓ Memory ↓↓

Creativity ↓

Multitasking ↓

Decision capability ↓

Depression ↑ moodiness ↑

Happiness ↓ Enthusiasm ↓

Sexual desire ↓↓↓

SOCIAL

Family relations ↓

Sexual relationship ↓↓

Attractiveness ↓ Looking older ↑

etc…

Healthy sleep:

60% think

they belong

to this 15%

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Sleep duration disease

Slaapduur + gebrek

WHAT IS ENOUGH SLEEP-Healthy = 7-8 hours-For about 10% = <7 hours

Test If you really belong to the 10% or if you are deceiving yourself:

If you get through the day with less than 7 hours- Without stimulants: no caffeine, no coffee, no tea, no energy (LOL!) drinks.

- Without symptoms of sleep-debt such as:

difficult getting out of bed, feeling sleepy, feeling tired, nodding off, feeling drowsy while

driving!, needing a nap, craving for junk food or sugar after you had a normal meal,

sleeping extra hours in weekend

-Without brain symptoms such as:

Concentration↓ ↓ Memory ↓↓ Patience ↓↓Feeling for nuance ↓Insight ↓

Judgement ↓ Creativity ↓ Multitasking ↓ Decision capability ↓ Depression ↑ Moodiness ↑

Happiness ↓ Enthusiasm ↓ Sexual desire ↓↓↓… but do you remember how it used to be?

Then you are a real short-sleeper

Warning: first14 days without caffeine withdrawal symptoms M-54

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[email protected] www.compernolle.com

CV ineens

Dr Theo Compernolle MD, PhD.

Work: Independent consultant, coach, trainer, researcher, keynote and motivational speaker.

Free lance lecturer and coach at business schools such as INSEAD and CEDEP in France, Vlerick

in Belgium and TIAS-NIMBAS in the Netherlands

2007: Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development at the Solvay Business School of the

Université Libre de Bruxelles

2005: Adjunct Professor-at-large INSEAD France

2000: professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and visiting professor at the Vlerick School for

Management (Belgium).

Expertise: Emotional and relational aspects of leadership

(1995 ) Executive Coaching, Executive team coaching, Executive Development, Board adviser

(1995 ) Resolving conflict and dysfunction at the top

(1995 ) Coaching, consulting families with a business

(1994 ) Management Behavior, Change Management

(1990 ) Corporate-Stress-Management: Strategy oriented change programs to improve the resilience

and agility of people and organizations

(1987 ) Individual Stress-Management (managers and executives)

Roots:

(1987) PhD on stress: University of Amsterdam

(1979) Research about stress in secondary schools PhD

(1976) Systems Family Therapy (Univ. Pennsylvania USA)

(1973) Psychiatry (Univ. Leiden)

(1971) Neurology (Univ.Amsterdam)

(1964) Medicine (Kath. Univ. Leuven) MD

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