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What is brain fuel?
Home » Executive Coaching » Executive Coaching - Brain Fuel » What is brain fuel?Just as your car needs gas, your brain needs fuel. Without gas, your car doesn’t even get going. If it has just a little gas, your car starts, gets you maybe halfway there and then dies, leaving you stuck on the side of the road. Gas provides the spark and the energy to get to your destination. Brain fuel works the same way. If the destination is a project or job, the brain fuel is the idea to get it started and the continued energy to finish the task.
Brain fuel is, quite literally, food for thought. The term “brain fuel” includes everything from activities that enhance your memory and creativity to lectures and training designed to teach you a specific skill. These activities may be reading or cultural activities, while the training can be many different formats providing many different kinds of information. In any case, brain fuel increases your expertise in an area and equips you for intellectual action.
To get started on fueling up, think back to the teachers from whom you learned the most. What were their strategies? Or call to mind the most intellectually sharp people you know. How do they stay sharp? Most likely, it is through reading and staying informed on the issues they need to know or through listening (either in casual conversation or in more formal settings, such as lectures) to new material. Start with that kind of brain fuel and go from there.
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