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How to activate the ‘seeking system’ of your brain | Dan Cable | Big Think
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- How to activate the ‘seeking system’ of your brain
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There is a part of the brain called the ventral striatum, aka the ""seeking system,"" that drives humans to explore and learn new things. When activated, the system releases dopamine and makes us feel good.
There are three main ways that leaders can stimulate the ventral striatums of their team: through experimentation, by finding ways to learn and play to individual strengths, and by making the purpose of the work personal.
As some major companies have learned, being playful and curious is a pathway to boosted creativity and innovation.
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DAN CABLE:
Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Dan's research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List, The Academy of Management has twice honored Dan with Best Article awards, and The Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the 'Top 25 most influential management scholars'.
Check Dan Cable's latest book Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do at amzn.to/3dd32Mj
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DAN CABLE: I can tell you that being playful and being curious are the root of innovation. There appears to be a part of our brain called the ventral striatum, that's the technical term, or you also could call it the seeking system. And this system is urging us to explore the boundaries of what we know. It's the new and it's the desire to learn. This onboard, innate part of our brain we can think about stimulating it, we can think about activating it. For example, when the seeking system is activated it releases dopamine into our body. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that makes us feel more alive. Literally the feeling of zest or enthusiasm or curiosity wells up within us and it's an innate feeling. It's intrinsic. What might be interesting is to think about what are some ways that leaders can stimulate that part of the brain, and I think that there are three different approaches that they can use.
One of the ones that is probably the easiest is experimentation. And by experimentation what I mean is playing with the boundaries of how we usually do things to try to understand if we can create a better effect. Now Google has moved away from this in recent years but this early movement of giving people 20 percent of their time just to play around, this is something that 3M is still doing, 15 percent of engineers' time is bootleg time where they're not supposed to work on their regular job. They're supposed to experiment and play around with the edges. And we know that this is where a lot of these innovations come out. Like Google Maps or Sticky Notes. A lot of these come out of not a senior leader saying do it this way. But a senior leader saying play around. See what your interests are and where they take you. So I would call that a leadership practice or a leadership mindset that allows for the space to develop, to play, to invent, to create.
In addition to experimentation this idea about understanding our strengths and playing to our strengths. For humans this idea about identity and what is my potential and what am I capable of while I'm on the planet, that seems to be something that is an ignition switch. It makes us enthusiastic to try. It makes us want to pursue the potential that we have within us.
And then the third activator of the seeking system is this concept of the why of the work. Again this urge within us is to understand the cause and effect of our actions. But so many of us at work don't really ever get to see or feel that final effect. And so ways that leaders can help personalize the purpose is this third activator. And I'll give you one story about that. I can steal this story from Adam Grant. He looked at call center operators. But in this one they were not trying to solve problems. They were asking for money. They were fundraisers. And what he did is he randomly assigned half of the fundraisers to a condition where they just got to meet a student. And it was a recipient of the scholarship money and this student sat with them and said thank you - ten minutes. He said thank you, I just want to appreciate what you do. He goes, I couldn't afford school without you. I'm basically here because of you...
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Please have him on again. He's great.
YES please
I love he's talking about zest in the zestiest kinda way imaginable, very contagious. How can I catch more of Dan Cable?
After some setbacks and an emotional day, I woke up completely rejuvenated, finding the right words again... I think this is similar to how I always deliver better results under stress. This last thing is pure trust, which comes from self knowledge. Not knowing yourself, makes you insecure and underperform.
One thing that I learned: stop scheduling, stop planning and start doing 😊
I am the opposite. If I don't have a schedule for my "doing" then I will just sit on youtube and do nothing.
ScubaTal Bowling We all work differently. Personally my ‘seeking system’ is always on, much to the annoyance of less curious folk perhaps 😅. If you need a schedule and without one you tend to attempt to stimulate yourself with UA-cam (even unknowingly) then perhaps you need to divert your go to stimulation source? Break your habits and you may find yourself more stimulated by something more worthy of your time. You can definitely be curious and playful as well as organised 😊
Sound like the familiar just do it.. Still very practical for those who have the time and the resources..
But that's not usually the case.. And so the experimentation is encouraging and yet only circumstantial.. Nice one!
0megalvyz1 Not necessarily true. People make sacrifices with their choices in life. If it is worth enough to you personally you should make time. It depends entirely on what an individual wants/needs and whether they recognise it. Many make excuses (however valid or believable) to not do things which would benefit themselves, they get themselves stuck and see only impossibilities. Mindset matters more here than time or resources.
@@zandervolker3439 Again very encouraging and still circumstantial..
Our perception is shaped by each individual experience from personal circumstances while our literal understanding might be on the same wavelength. How we each value as sacrifice differ from our cultural beliefs be it local, national and even here and now.. Global.
Your message resonates as to be positively proactive and that's the take.
Thanks for replying.
I always loved this guys hairstyle. Magnificent.
I immediately want to have a kombucha and salad with this guy..
Amazing information and lifted my spirits instantly thanks.
I’m glad this came up because I can’t stop lol I have problems stopping learning, reading and experimenting even in social conversations and found that most of the time when I am just messing around I discover the most .. I was about to shut this down for a while because it is out of boredom for me. I thought something was wrong with me but apparently this is highly activated in my brain already.. now humanity first is the best way to go with anything so that is a great reminder
Thats amazing I'm really happy for you. Keep doing what you're doing
Don't use this video as reference whether your monitor is hanging straight
Vincent Fischer i fucking lost it dude. Feels bad for him tho
Tt
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Dan Cable is great 👍🏻 wouldn’t mind more from him please.
Wow this is so valuable. Why does this only have 20k views?
I loved this talk in spite of my neck pain
I told my boss to give me time to play around so I can innovate. I am unemployed now. And I forgot to tell you that I work in a warehouse.
We're all unemployed now
3:52 THREE TIMES MORE LIKELIHOOD of getting MONEY
(greedy zionists licking chops)
The funny thing is it would probably work in a warehouse as well. I'm sure there are things that could be improved in the warehouse, that only the workers there would be able to see.
You prob can’t be playful if your threatened. But in my experience you can still be curious and at least driven to understand if that’s your natural temperment. Cuz dopamine feels good. But the playful part , you need to unblend from emotions and find ways to relax you also can’t be funny when threatened.
I am totally stuck in seeking mode. Always seeking for a solution for my problems in the Internet or searching a product which is more optimal. I have adhd and I ask my self if the seeking system as it is run by dopamin has a lot to do with adhd.
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What if u got OCD then.
Exactly !
I remember going to play tennis with my brother. The first game, he kicked my ass. But then, somehow, I activated *PLAY* and slaughtered him the rest of the match. My little brother has no ability to activate play.
Fabulous
I have adhd. It seems to be that seeking system is getting overstimulated when having adhd.
Ventral striatum.
Can't hear what he is saying head tilt too much.
My seeking system is firing all the time, so my issue is not finding things in my brain. It's finding the things in real life
Hahaha, so smart, you add buffering line in the thumbnail. 😏
✌️ Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. The main man @evenkingsfall (his insta) always says you have to THINK BIG to WIN BIG! Always keep that thought process! Don't stop the hard work 💥
Your head would tilt if it were that size too.
Humanity is a feature, not a bug.
Great ideal! Though.. for a little imaginative exploration.. We are in a global pandemic, most of us under city lock down.. Twisting it a little bit more with the Chinese year of the rat.. Like labs rats.. Exchanging social media messages..because that's called social distancing..
Just learned that recently I might add.. With more data flowing back and forth surely this is saying what else can you do.. "You're the experiment. "
That's a very buggy human feature.. Don't you agree?
@@l0g1cseer47 I didn't mean humans, I meant humanity, as in MWD
1: compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition : the quality or state of being humane
Humanity as in the totality of the human race is undeniably buggy.
@@a7i20ci7y It does have a nice ring as in circularly perfect tautological aspiration to follow..
Yours is sincerely expressed. Thanks for the reply.
The. Neck.
the majority of need to learn to switch this part of the brain permanently OFF. As our contract states - DO ONLY WHAT YOU ARE TOLD TO DO>
Guys.. come on. It's just a cold
But I thought people only work/learn if they're given money... Huh? What? Wait, working/learning is an inherent human trait and natural impulse? Oh no! I guess that explains why Americans got shit done even before The Old World made its way to The Beautiful Country and went full termite. :p ... Give a horse a crisp $100 bill, see if he gives you a ride; give a horse a crisp carrot, see if he gives you a ride. Let's be bees!