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The must-read summary of David Rock's book: "Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long".
This complete summary of the ideas from David Rock's book "Your Brain at Work" shows that in order to deliver better performance in any setting, you need to first understand how you think. In his book, the author explains the five building blocks that will significantly improve your performance and how to work with your brain instead of against it. This summary is a must-read for anyone who wants to boost their performance level and unlock their potential.
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To learn more, read "Your Brain at Work" and discover the key to understanding your mind and improving performance.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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Book PresentationYour Brain At Work by David Rock
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Summary of Your Brain At Work (David Rock)
1. Work with your brain instead of against it
2. Learn how to drive your mind’s director
3. Learn how to stay cool under pressure
4. Learn how to see the world from the brain’s perspective
5. Stop focusing on other people’s problems and come up with solutions
Book PresentationYour Brain At Work by David Rock
Book Abstract
MAIN IDEA
Despite all the advances in technology, the human brain still remains the greatest business asset anyone owns. The secret to delivering better performance in any setting is to first understand how you think and then get better at directing the way you think in the future. If you understand how your brain operates in more detail, you’re then equipped to improve your performance.
The five building blocks of brain mastery are:
“It may be that understanding the brain is one of the best ways of improving performance in any setting, especially for teams of people working together. For thousands of years philosophers have said that to ‘know yourself’ was the key to a healthy and successful life. Perhaps what is emerging from this new research about the brain is a new way of thinking about ‘self-awareness.’ Only in this case, the ‘self’ is the functioning of your own brain. Your capacity to change yourself, change others, and even change the world, may boil down to how well you know your brain, and your capacity to intervene in otherwise automatic processes.”
– David Rock
About the Author
DAVID ROCK is founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems, an international coaching organization. He works with Fortune 500 companies to embed integrated coaching systems into their corporate cultures. Dr. Rock is the author of Personal Best, Quiet Leadership and Coaching With the Brain in Mind. In addition to founding the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit, Dr. Rock is a guest lecturer at universities in five countries including Oxford University’s Business School.
The Web site for this book is atwww.your-brain-at-work.com
Important Note About This Ebook
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of Your Brain At Work (David Rock)
1. Work with your brain instead of against it
Today, more people than ever before are paid to think instead of performing routine physical tasks. That’s fine but the human brain has biological limits on how long it can make decisions and solve new problems. Paradoxically, the key to improving performance in this area is to understand those limits and work with them rather than against them.
The real secret to achieving and then sustaining high performance doesn’t lie in an investment in the latest computers, smart phones or buying the car of the future. To achieve more, master your brain and structure your work to align with the way the human brain likes to work. Advances in neuroscience have made this possible to achieve.
Probably the six key problems of the modern day workplace are:
The blizzard of e-mail overloadDealing with highly complex problemsThe competing deadlines of multiple projectsFinding ways to say no to distractionsMeeting the pressure to performProgressing past mental roadblocksIn each of these areas, neuroscience offers some worthwhile helps and clues about the way forward:
1. The blizzard of e-mail overload
It’s now known making decisions and solving problems uses the prefrontal cortex part of the brain. A good metaphor for this brain region is to think of it as a stage in a small theater. Actors – that is, thoughts or memories or images – can come onto the stage and interact with each other, be combined into new combinations and so forth. We now know:
