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Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated
- Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday - revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.
Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.
In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul's brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Dr. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today's hyperbusy work environment - and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
In Your Brain at Work, Dr. Rock explores issues such as:
- why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources
- why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
- how to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problems
- how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
- how to collaborate more effectively with others
- why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
- how to be more effective at changing other people's behavior
- and much more...
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- Pres
- 07-02-22
Teach this at schools
There is so much great insight in this book. Everyone can benefit from reading it. I feel like it should be thought at schools or at least universities.
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- Dan
- 06-08-22
Good book for insight into decision making
Good book if you're currently looking for insight into your decision making process, very useful examples to get a good picture of the point being put across
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- luca
- 24-01-23
The best book of brain
The SCARF model îs very well explain at work and with frends and îs very good
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- SteveN
- 10-11-22
Brainstorming Stuff
David Rock has put together a wonderfully descriptive and practical book addressing the need to understand ones brain and the benefits such self awareness can bring.
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- Hasnat Safder
- 25-01-21
Excellent self help book for professionals
This book takes you through real life examples of work situations, provides both the right and wrong actions for daily work problems and their consequences. The writer has done outstanding job of demonstrating how the brain works and reacts. Highly recommended.
Awesome job by the narrator too.
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- nick
- 22-08-21
Great book
I recommend this book to everybody who wants to understand how brain works at work.
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- H
- 29-07-21
A great book
This book helps you to understand how your brain works, why you might instinctively react a certain way in a given situation and how you can change that to be a more helpful response. There's also a great section on collaborating with others. The book is very easy to read, and is set out in a series of acts and scenes. Each scene begins with two people reacting badly to a challenging situation in their work or home life. The rest of the scene explains why they reacted the way they did and how they could have used certain principles / techniques to improve. This is followed by a "take two" where they apply these principles to the same situation and handle it well.
This book has changed the way I see my own thought processes and emotions. I throughly recommend it.
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- Harry
- 18-10-20
Useful and powerful
Easy to listen, explains everyday concepts in a meaningful way and offers powerful solutions that you can actually use
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- Sally
- 11-11-23
Listened to this twice
Amazing book, full of insights. Applies to work and home life, including helping my children better navigate the demands of school.
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