Your Brain at Work
Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
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Narrated by:
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Bob Walter
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Written by:
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David Rock
About this listen
Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.
In this book, we travel inside Emily's and Paul's brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works - and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it's possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the listener, not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but succeed in it - and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
Your Brain at Work 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 your chance of finding insights that can 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
What listeners say about Your Brain at Work
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- Swati Jaiswal
- 26-04-21
One of the best productivity books I've read.
I highly recommend it to anyone who's looking to make life easier on their brains.
There's a proper balance of insights with research backing and their use in daily scenarios which any of us can easily relate to. It's intriguing to learn the intricacies of brain while understanding the behavioural concepts and it's well complemented with the humane stories of emily and paul.
The book is very well structured hence maintaining a flow. Their are crisp ideas and concepts which are properly explained and put in use. The dramatic touch in the whole structuring helps to stay connected.
A slightly problematic aspect somewhere came with redundancy of points while trying to explain a concept, especially the use of many examples seemed unnecessary at some points which in turn increase the length and doesn't add value.
Overall it was an enjoyable and insightful read. A must read for everyone.
Key takeaways:
1. Priorities things, by spending a little time in prioritising and de-prioritising, we can save a lot of our energy and hence can do things in a more productive way.
2. offload information: This is one of the most favourite insight if I say so. works like magic. you really need to listen/read to understand how the brain uses energy and how we can aid it in efficiently doing so.
3. Multitasking just make everything harder. Try to tackle one thing at a time. Prioritising really helps.
4. Little distractions also consume brain's attention and energy, try to reduce them as much as possible.
5. Understanding and utilising brain's reward and threat system can help us a lot both personally and in social context too.
6. One of the major aspect that author talks about is a concept called director of the brain (the part which facilitates control of the whole system and decision making). He talks about how it works, how much it can help us if trained well. What role emotions play in functioning of the brain and how much impact can the careful regulation of emotions have on our utilisation of brain's capacity and creating better social situations.
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- Rishabh Surana
- 03-01-22
Justifies the Name
Amazing book, very practical, well written, exceptional narration which makes it worth the time.
Tips which could really help you to up your corporate game.
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- Jois
- 02-01-23
Good one!
It is fascinating to understand our own body and how it functions.
Many situations the author created in his narration are relatable.
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