Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

🧠The brain is fascinating! 🤯 #neuroscience #marketing

18 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains how the brain processes incoming information through the reticular formation, which acts as a gatekeeper. Threatening stimuli bypass this filter and trigger a rapid response via the amygdala. Opportunities also pass through the reticular formation, first activating the amygdala and then illuminating the prefrontal cortex for thoughtful evaluation. When something is novel or unexpected, it engages the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and broader brain networks, creating heightened awareness. The speaker translates this neuroscience insight into a marketing lesson: to capture attention, marketers should create content that is different and unexpected, ensuring it stands out and is noticed.

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This is your brain. This is your brain split in half. You have a reticular formation that prevents information from going into the brain unless if it's a threat, it will come through the reticular formation and go to the amygdala for hyper response. If it's an opportunity, it goes through, hits the amygdala and illuminates the prefrontal cortex so we can consider the opportunity. And if it's a different thing, it must be evaluated by all parts of the brain. The amygdala at the prefrontal cortex, the entire brain illuminates. The lesson for your marketing is this. Do something that's different and unexpected. People will always notice it.