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Your Personal DiSC Assessment: Braintenance – Douglas E. Castle

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Your Personal DiSC Assessment: Braintenance – Douglas E. Castle How will you work in a team setting? What probable role would you gravitate toward? Will you play well with others? DiSC is a personal assessment tool used to improve work productivity, teamwork and communication. DiSC is non-judgmental and helps people discuss their behavioral differences. If you participate in a DiSC program, you'll be asked to complete a series of questions that produce a detailed report about your personality and behavior. What does DiSC stand for? Dominance Person places emphasis on accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence Influence Person places emphasis on influencing or persuading others, openness, relationships Steadiness Person places emphasis on cooperation, sincerity, dependability Conscientiousness Person places emphasis on quality and accuracy, expertise, competency Each of us can be placed (after having been tested) into one of the above categories. You'll get to test yours...

Make Your Brain Happy -- Braintenance

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When your brain is absorbed in a problem-solving task which requires a great deal of visualization, imagination and innovation, it is operating on "all of its cylinders." But if you can consciously convince your brain {which behaves like a small child sometimes) that the tasks which it is undertaking are games (the "gamification of problem-solving"), your brain will be even further stimulated as it perceives challenges without consequences for failure. When your game plays games, it is not being nudged by your subconscious mind about past failures or the possibility of additional failures. There is a wonderful website which I'd like to share with you in order to assist you in getting your brain to light up with sheer pleasure. My suggestion is to play games from this site (you might wish to bookmark it or make it a favorite) whenever you are faced with an uncooperative, exhausted mind. It just might be the tonic that you need to reboot your brain into productio...