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Albany needs ethics reform according to this New York Times editorial, and most would agree. Each time we lead without ethics, we literally change the chemistry of our brains!
Have we rewired our nation’s brainpower to live without ethics? If so – what questions could guide us back to brilliance and ethical growth! What do you think?
An amazing example of ethical IQ in action is the account Sofitel management reported to police after a powerful world leader violently attacked an immigrant maid. Bravo! Rewards will likely escalate here as in any highly successful business built on truth.
Unethical behavior, in contrast, exonerates rape if even one lawyer opts for greed or notoriety, over doing what’s right. Sadly, entire nations pay the price when we rewire a brain’s circuitry to accept lust over love, war over peace, or cynicism over care.
Do you crave a new kind of community where justice exists because it sustains the right things? Yet it rarely happens in some business structures we defend as norm.
We don’t have to be the sharpest knife in the drawer to cut out ethical behavior, and short-circuit what’s legal at work. The cost of wiring a culture for fast-talking lawyers or leaders who lie for money or pose for prestige – though – comes with hidden price tags that bankrupt human brainpower. Spot any abuse or outrageous expenditures of inhumanity in your organization?
Some experts maintain that until we close dangerous gaps between ethical and legal practices, savage costs will continue to rise, until ordinary people can no longer pay.
Imagine if ethical rules of conduct required people to do the right thing as defined by responsible leaders in our diverse communities. At Mita, it’s called raising Intrapersonal IQ for a brain-powered climate. It’s about ethical conduct as agreed upon, and about evidence expected in behaviors, much like laws are written, approved and enforced by leaders at state or federal levels.
Act morally rather than preach morals. Why so? Mirror neurons in the brain equip people to mimic actions of those nearby.
Enjoy well being when you do good. Kindness increase your serotonin, a chemical for well being.
Live courageously through risking a finer good, and you also increase intrapersonal IQ for ethical conduct.
Create spiritual space and you’ll value spirit in others, as compassion grows with spiritual intelligence.
Generous acts rewire the brain for mutual winning, in ways that preclude lies, cheating, or greed.
Revere life, and your brain’s natural proclivity for curiosity welcomes differences in ways that proper all.
Depart from questionable practices, so your brain opens neuron pathways toward more ethical discoveries.
Model values in your community in ways that benefit others to stoke more brain-powered bailouts.
Care for the earth and its extravagant wealth offer brainpowered tools for future generations.
Protect freedom for yourself and others, by awakening your brain’s peaceful resolutions to serve justice with mercy.
Learn, grow and remain open to ethical opportunities within opposing views, and stretch your dendrite brain cells for good.
Communicate an ethical tone and your brain cultivates respect for the best in others.
Help others and enjoy brainpower that shrinks from practices that harm humankind.
Stack another’s deck to clearly see a code of morality embedded in your enviable actions.
Care for animals in a way that recognizes their vulnerability and your brain increases its capacity to care for all.
Open new understanding to grapple with great mysteries of a more ethical universe, impacted by your choices today.
Become that amazing person you’d like others to see in you, with every act that changes your brain’s plasticity.
Refuse to promote your well-being at the expense of another’s, and your brain rewires to prefer a bigger truth.
Reverence sacred parts of life, and you grow brainpower for value from other’s sense of sacred.
Work harder than most, yet pay others fairly for their extra labor to reduce cortisol toxins that erode a workplace.
Apologize and offer restitution whenever you harm another person, but teach your brain to take back no offense from others’ failure.
Avoid cynicism – and your intuitive IQ will never think less or more of yourself than is true.
Choose well, and your brain develops a conscience that remains sensitive to goodness.
Support the right thing – even when others wire brains daily to ignore weaker persons in the right, or yield to powerful people in the wrong.
Avoid conflicts of interest, and your brain frees its focus to guide you to higher goals.
Live transparently and you free up others to evaluate your actions with a more ethical lens.
Grow ethical brain cell connectors and develop wisdom with each new discovery about living a good life.
Express gratitude for all that is given to you, and your brain finds far less room to become discontent.
Practice the Golden Rule daily, and brain-powered tools increase for leading the same.
Sacrifice to sustain goodness over evil, even when a community wires against ethical conduct and restore collective IQ.
Showcase good in others, before you identify differences they offer so that diversity extends into growth opportunities.
How would ethical conduct define brainpower and sustain growth where you work? Can you see the role serotonin plays in an ethical action?
Not surprisingly, each time you act on an answer to that question – your brain rewires itself for a more ethical approach to your day. That’s the delight of a brain on ethics.
