ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how our brain identifies, processes and manages emotions and why being told what to do is less effective than obtaining insights in maximising performance and potential. There are many prominent experts who warn about the hype of neuroscience and there are many others who believe it is ground breaking for the science of leadership and personal performance. While the human brain has developed genetically at a very slow pace, society has developed comparatively rapidly through the agricultural, scientific and industrial ages and into the current information age. The amygdala is the centre for emotions, emotional behaviour and motivations. There are two almond-shaped and sized amygdala, one on either side of the middle of the brain, made up of nerve tissue. Its historical role has been concerned with the perception of fear and preparing for emergency events.
