It’s also helpful to talk about it publicly. “Label your feelings because when you do that, you reduce activation of the emotional processing part of the brain, so both aggressiveness and anger are reduced. For leaders in the workplace, this is an amazing way to eliminate conflict because if you ask someone, “How do you feel? “When they label it, you see the comfort that they get from being honest about their feelings.”
Other stress-breaking tools Landowski recommends include mindfulness meditation, where only 13 minutes a day can shrink the amygdala and strengthen the prefrontal cortex within eight weeks, 20 minutes a day in green space for 20 minutes, and regular gratitude for practice and exercise. “Exercise is physical stress on the body, which makes you more resilient to psychological stress, such as stress in the workplace.”
Think like a hacker
For neuroscientist, Columbia University’s business professor and former hacker Moran Cerf, the link between cybersecurity and neuroscience is instinctive. He noted that cybersecurity work, especially as a hacker, is often about understanding people’s mindsets and then finding gaps.
