About NBI
Helping you understand
For hundreds and hundreds of years scientists have been looking into the fascinating world of the brain and its processes.Why do we think like we do?Why do we behave and communicate the way we do?
What explanations exist for the differences in thinking and behaviour within a family, between siblings, even twins?
We debate nature versus nurture, IQ and memory. We discuss creativity and its relevancy in an ever-changing world.
At the Kobus Neethling Institute (KNI), years of research by internationally acclaimed South African, Dr Kobus Neethling, has culminated in the development of the NBI system of thinking preference assessments.
These assessments provide critical insights into an individual's preference towards left-brain thinking, right-brain thinking and the various combinations there of.
By no means does the NBI system imply that a person only thinks in only one part or with only one part of his/her brain - that is not possible! We always use all of our brain to think. (In fact, once you understand your thinking preferences, the ideal is to develop whole-brain thinking.)
What the NBI system does evaluate, is the natural preferences or dominances we have with regards to thinking.
Let’s simplify this - if you are right handed, you use your right hand more often than your left hand when doing tasks. That does not mean that you do not have a left hand, that you do not need a left hand nor that you never use your left hand. Not at all. It simply means that there is a comfort in using your right hand, a natural “go to” when doing things.
NBI assessments allow us to evaluate you thinking “go to” - and this is essential!
For example, if you are a visual, big picture futurist and you choose a job that requires you to keep record of and count stock day after day, you will wither.
If a child with an visual, big picture furture-minded thinking preference is made to sit at a desk and bullet point his notes to learn history, that child will not memorise the information optimally, as it is to aligned with his/her natural preference, and this in turn will influence the child's marks (and his/her self-esteem and self beliefs) directly.
We simply must make the effort to understand these preference in order to fit into our individual and unique roles in life.
Parents must endeavour to find out this informations and help their children apply it to studying, to subject choices, to career choices.
Employers must know this information to correctly choose an employee for a specific position.
Teachers need to know and understand brain profiles, to teach in such a manner that all the children in their class can hear and understand the subject matter.
This list goes on and on.
What explanations exist for the differences in thinking and behaviour within a family, between siblings, even twins?
We debate nature versus nurture, IQ and memory. We discuss creativity and its relevancy in an ever-changing world.
At the Kobus Neethling Institute (KNI), years of research by internationally acclaimed South African, Dr Kobus Neethling, has culminated in the development of the NBI system of thinking preference assessments.
These assessments provide critical insights into an individual's preference towards left-brain thinking, right-brain thinking and the various combinations there of.
By no means does the NBI system imply that a person only thinks in only one part or with only one part of his/her brain - that is not possible! We always use all of our brain to think. (In fact, once you understand your thinking preferences, the ideal is to develop whole-brain thinking.)
What the NBI system does evaluate, is the natural preferences or dominances we have with regards to thinking.
Let’s simplify this - if you are right handed, you use your right hand more often than your left hand when doing tasks. That does not mean that you do not have a left hand, that you do not need a left hand nor that you never use your left hand. Not at all. It simply means that there is a comfort in using your right hand, a natural “go to” when doing things.
NBI assessments allow us to evaluate you thinking “go to” - and this is essential!
For example, if you are a visual, big picture futurist and you choose a job that requires you to keep record of and count stock day after day, you will wither.
If a child with an visual, big picture furture-minded thinking preference is made to sit at a desk and bullet point his notes to learn history, that child will not memorise the information optimally, as it is to aligned with his/her natural preference, and this in turn will influence the child's marks (and his/her self-esteem and self beliefs) directly.
We simply must make the effort to understand these preference in order to fit into our individual and unique roles in life.
Parents must endeavour to find out this informations and help their children apply it to studying, to subject choices, to career choices.
Employers must know this information to correctly choose an employee for a specific position.
Teachers need to know and understand brain profiles, to teach in such a manner that all the children in their class can hear and understand the subject matter.
This list goes on and on.
