Us humans, we are wired to connect. When we don’t feel like we connect or belong we experience pain! Neuroscientists call this 'Social Pain'.
The feeling of exclusion, rejection, isolation. What we know from research on the brain is that the same part of our brain that activates when we experience physical pain, lights up, when we experience social pain. Social Pain is Real Pain.
Five years ago, Google became focused on building the perfect team.
The tech giant charged a team to find out. The project, known as Project Aristotle, took several years, & studied hundreds of Googlers to figure out why some soared and others stumbled.
What do you want? It’s a simple question
If it’s so simple, why can it be so damn hard to answer - honestly anyway? It’s the big question Michelle Bridges poses in her keynote speech, she constantly challenges her audience to answer, "what do you want?”.
