STIMA Congress 2014 - The Festival Edition: Presentation Theo Compernolle

© dr Theo Compernolle MD., PhD. www.compernolle.com
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Prof Dr Theo Compernolle MD., PhD
Science Made Simple And Usefull

WHAT IS YOUR MOST
IMPORTANT TOOL
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to be successful
in rapidly changing times?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR BRAIN
to be more productive and less stressed?

1. Being always
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connected
2. Multitasking
3. Stress
(even low level if continuous)
4. Lack of sleep
5.Working in
brain-jails
(formerly called open offices)
Email = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4
Phone while driving =

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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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1,5 kg. 30 watts
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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spiNNaker brain simulator: primitively simulates 1 million neurons: 450 kg. 50.00 watt.
Primitive simulation of brain’s 80 billion neurons:
Size of Boeing hangar. 40.000 tons. 4.000 Gwatt

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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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External must or internal must
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Always On- Always Connected
Always on gul iver
How it is sold: you choose: you can be
available any time, anywhere
How it really is: no choice: you must be
available all the time and everywhere

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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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Past
Present
Future
Fantasy
Our three brains
two brains REFLECTING-BRAIN
REFLEX-BRAIN
Sensory Now Is All*
ARCHIVING-BRAIN
Needs a break
*SNIA: the immediately present sensory world of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, pain, balance, body awareness,
temperature and acceleration.

Two brains competing for the same working memory
in a zero-sum game
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ARCHIVING-BRAIN REFLECTING-BRAIN
working-memory
Your archiving-brain needs a break and a good night of sleep
Your reflecting-brain needs them to recuperate

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
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DISCONNECT TO HAVE A BREAK
TO ARCHIVE
TO RECUPERATE

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two brains stream Reflecting Brain
IDEA
Choice
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

Reflex Brain
Unconscious reflexes: FAST
Parallel processor
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hardwired shortcuts
two brains stream
Action
Choice
Decision
You don’t
know what
it knows

From slow reflective to fast reflex via long practice
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hardwired shortcuts
two brains stream
Reflective Brain
Action
Choice
Decision
Automation/expertise
practice, training + immediate feedback
predictable situation
Conscious reflection: SLOW
Reflex Brain
Unconscious reflexes: FAST
Soft-wired shortcuts intuitions

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Two brains caracteristics
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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

THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
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DISCONNECT TO REFLECT
or to have a true conversation

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MULTITASKING

When you think you can do your job well while multitasking
You are WRONG and you know it!
MULTITASKING IS VERY IGNORANT
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Mechanic surgeon
Do you want a car mechanic
doing a brake job on you car
while he is multitasking?
Do you want a surgeon
operating on you
while she is multitasking?
You know multitasking is not a good idea !!
or… is your job less difficult, less important?

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Oude jonge vrouw

SERIAL MULTITASKING: switching cost = huge loss of time
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Context switching
Our Reflective Brain:
Serial processing
Context Switch  Switching Cost = BIG LOSS
Stop task 2
Move data 2 from work.mem to temp.mem
Build-up concentration

Clean working memory Load data 3 from LM or TM
Do task 3
longer
loss loss loss
longer longer

Every interruption is a switch!
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People in open offices get interrupted every three minutes
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Every beep or pop-up = 2 minutes of concentration lost !
PRODUCTIVITY DISAPPEARS WITHOUT A TRACE
IN THE BLACK HOLE OF SWITCHING!

PARALLEL MULTITASKING : time lost + information lost
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Problem #1: you are continuously SWITCHING
Loss of energy, memory, reflection, understanding etc…
Remember:
And it’s even much worse than that !!!

PARALLEL MULTITASKING : loss of information and time
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Problem #2: Partial attention = ILLUSION !!
Your reflecting brain can only pay attention to ONE “channel” at a time
The reality of what you do: FRACTURED attention
Total loss
Total loss Total loss
Total loss Total loss Total loss
While you do emails you do NOThear 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 !!!

PARALLEL MULTITASKING : time lost + information lost
Problem #3: your brain fills the gaps guessing !
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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
Efficient ???
Until today: Ignorant. After today: STUPID !

Sculpture by Ron Mueck
Baby died, forgotten in a car
on a hot parking
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How is this possible ??
This would never happen to me !!!!
You are totally wrong!!!! It can happen to you too, with a combination of:
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BABY DEAD IN CAR
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!

Change your brain=wrong
FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO ZAPPIENS
Click TO HOMO to edit INTERRUPTUS
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You cannot train or change your reflecting brain to multitask
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600 million years from first brain to singletasking “human brain” 30 years of multitasking
1/20millionth in history of the brain
1/20.000.000 th

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PSTR DON’T MULTITASK

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Einstein MULTITASK
It's not that I'm so smart,
It's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

THE THIRD COMMANDMENT
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ERADICATE SWITCHES
Ruthlessly, Radically

Stop taskswitching. Start RIGHT-tasking
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It takes 4 times more time for a lousy job
Reflection Batch eMail Batch Shit Batch
Finish a batch
+ pause
Do single tasking neuro
RIGHT-tasking !!! = BATCHPROCESSING
Finish a batch
+ pause
x Batch eg family
Finish a batch
+ pause
Finish a batch
+ pause

After today, you can no longer claim ignorance!
style If you keep multitasking after today, then admit that you do it
Because you are not very clever (unlikely)
Because you are struggling with a neurosis
Needing 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

THE THREE COMMANDMENTS
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Rule nr 1
Ruthlessly, radically, eradicate switches
Rule nr 2
Disconnect to reflect
Rule nr 3
Disconnect for a break

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USING PHONE
WHILE DRIVING

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QQQBel en 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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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

2 seconden ogen weg
RISK OF ACCIDENT
Texting while style
driving:
eyes off road 5 seconds, repeatedly
5 seconds at 70km / hour = 100m
= driving length of football field BLIND!
Eyes off road in seconds
1” 2”
Phone, GPS, kids…

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

Handsfree makes NO difference. It’s about attention !
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Gezichtsveld bel ende driver
Attention
Not distracted
Visual scanning
Not distracted
On the phone
On the phone
Pictures courtesy David Strayer, University of Utah.

PASSENGER
“…but what’s the difference between talking on
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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.

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Stop JUST DON’t
BLANCO

THE THREE COMMANDMENTS
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Rule nr 1
Ruthlessly, radically, eradicate switches
Rule nr 2
Disconnect to reflect
Rule nr 3
Disconnect for a break
To save a life, maybe your own
NEVER EVER use ICT while driving!

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BADLY
DESIGNED
OFFICES
more info at www.brainchains.info

“Because modern ZOO-directors
know more about style
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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Multit aksing 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

Six discoveries in my review of the literature repudiate my idea
1. Hyperconnected youngsters are not style
ICT-savvy at all
2. hyper-connected youngsters are better at two skills, but these are low-level ICT
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My Hypothesis: hyperconnectivity is only a problem
for older generations not for digital natives
What do you think?
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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LACK OF
SLEEP

Lack of sleep:
- Sugar tolerance ↓thyroid hormone ↓
- Cortisol ↑ Immune system ↑ ↑
- Aging↑ Weight ↑ (6h 2x more obese><8h)
- Diabetes ↑ Live shorter !
BRAIN!!
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Sleep duration
disease
Slaapduur + gebrek
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%

WHAT Click IS ENOUGH to edit Master SLEEP
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-Healthy = 7-8 hours
-For about 10% = <7 hours
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Test If you really belong to the 10% or if you are deceiving yourself:
Sleep duration disease
Slaapduur + gebrek
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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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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