Laurie: I think I am a relatively sane person (elizabeth, wait your turn!), but please don’t ask me to think about how I think. My brain 
shuts off completely – too much input. I just got back from a conference where one of the hot topics was the neuroscience of the brain. Good grief! Whatever that means, folks were signing up for that session like crazy. Of course, I joined them because I never want to miss out on the latest thing. I think I’m being generous when I say that I was alert for approximately three minutes. Still uninformed about brain neuroscience, I can tell you how many intricate designs are on my Vera Bradley purse, exactly how much money I found in my jacket pocket, and how badly I draw people with flowers in their hair.
elizabeth: Being a creative soul (who would never make fun of Laurie’s sanity – unless paid handsomely) I tend to seek shelter and hide when the subject of science comes up, and brain neuroscience just doesn’t sound sexy enough to hold my attention. Its not that I need to know how the brain works. But if you are going to talk to me about the brain, tell me how you can make it better. I even looked up brain neuroscience and the only thing I discovered is that one’s navel can hold a hell of a lot of lint. And that ain’t sexy either.
Laurie: Well, it did get me to thinking about how I handle situations. There are people who need all the information so they can sort it out into objectives, pros and cons, and possible scenarios. That isn’t me. I act and then I think. If it works out perfectly, I proudly walk around saying that I have good instincts, or as we say in my business “a good gut” (as if there was such a thing as a good gut). And if it bombs, I scramble to fix it or justify it or come up with a satisfactory lie about how it really wasn’t a bomb. Now I ask you, which is the greater talent? Sure, almost anybody can analyze facts and come up with a solution but where’s the fun in that? Far more creative is running around with adrenaline coursing through your veins trying to pretend you didn’t just screw up.
elizabeth: You don’t really have to screw up as much as you do (I am being paid to say that). I know people who will analyze every little thing and then will continue to think it all over again. People can’t be with me if they are going to do that. It’s just an excuse not to make a decision. We have a tool that works perfectly well, and it is good for the brain. In fact, we slipped out of the birth canal with our intuition. I try to use it all the time. And it works and when it doesn’t – well, it still does. We just ignore it and then we blame our dog for our misstep.
Laurie: I’m not sure I learned my lesson about following the crowd. For purposes of my ego, we will deem it “a healthy curiosity.” Whatever you call it, I ended up at another session about Onboarding. There I learned that this is when you promote an executive to another level of executivism. I swear I thought it was some sort of employee athletic program. And you’ll be glad to know that I found more money in my jacket pocket.
elizabeth: I love how they just make up words so that they can make people feel like they must have missed the memo on being a moron in front of a crowd. Did Curly from the Three Stooges give this talk? Onboarding? In fact I googled it and it said it is a term used by losers. Executivism did not even come up. But I did get an email saying to stop abusing my brain by looking up dumb-assed terms like this. And my dog just bit me.
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