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Your Brain at Work

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353K views16 years ago3 recommendations

Brain and nervesMental healthNeuroscienceStressMemory and learning

David Rock explains how understanding brain limits, attention, and social needs can help maximize mental energy, overcome distractions, and reduce stress.

Google Tech Talk November 12, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by David Rock. In his new book "Your Brain at Work," coach David Rock depicts the story of two people over one day at the office, and what's happening in their brains that makes it so hard to focus and be productive. Not only does he explain why things go wrong, but how you can train your brain to improve thinking and performance at work. Based on interviews with 30 neuroscientists, he's developed strategies to help you work smart all day. Learn how to: · Maximize your mental energy by understanding your brain's limits · Overcome distractions · Improve your focus through understanding the nature of attention · Reduce stress levels with brain-based techniques · Improve how you collaborate by understanding the social needs of the brain You can learn to be more productive, less stressed and stay sane by understanding your brain. David Rock is a thought leader for the brain-based approach to coaching. David coined the term 'NeuroLeadership' and co-founded the NeuroLeadership Institute, Journal and Summit. He is also the founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems, which helps Fortune 500 clients worldwide improve thinking and performance. He has authored four books, most recently 'Your Brain at Work'. He is on the advisory board and faculty of international business school CIMBA, and a guest lecturer at Oxford University. He consults organizations including Ericsson, Publicis, NASA, Accenture, EDS and the US Federal Reserve. He lives between New York City and Sydney, Australia.

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What people say. Recommended for its practical, brain-based strategies to improve focus, manage stress, and understand cognitive limits in the workplace.

espeedin Hacker News • Recommends

On “How to Get to Genius”

1. It doesn't say Einstein was bad at math, it says his math skills aren't the reason he is considered a genius. 2. The Google TechTalk it references explains "insights from weak associations" in more detail: link to this video 3. If you don't have perspective, how do you know the thing you're focused on is of any importance? You can see practical examples of this everywhere: "One of my favourite tuppences for engineers struggling to find a bug is 'breadth first not depth first'. This can be annoying for someone working through complex technical details, because it implies that the solution is actually much simpler if they only looked...I coined this saying because in software matters I find that if we…
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On “Why you get ideas in the shower”

For more specifics into the cognitive science behind why this is - another good book, which has lots of wonderful references to studies on this topic (amongst other things), is "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. Or, for the general overview you can watch the Google Talk at link to this video
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On “Why you get ideas in the shower”

People who are into this kind of thing will probably like "Your brain at work" by David Rock. It covers this topic and a few more - it's pretty interesting stuff for developers and knowledge workers. There's also a tech talk here: link to this video Also, get Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt. Also covers these topics and helps people understand learning, creativity and how to exploit the way you work and think to, well, learn better.
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On “How to Get to Genius”

…ends and I were discussing it the other day, and I made the analogy of comparing the connectome in your brain to hardware and the thoughts in your mind to software. Is that a fair analogy? David Rock wrote a book called 'Your Brain at Work' where he says that insights come from detecting weak associations (he gave a Google Tech Talk on this too -- link to this video ). If the brain software/hardware analogy is right, is there a similar relationship between weak associations of thoughts and neurons that are "distantly" connected? In other words, are associations weak because they are indirect paths from one node – one neural connection -- to another, and would a more direct path optimize you mental abil…
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On “Regretting the Golden Handcuffs: Beware the Costs of Burnout”

…seen people working ten hours a week getting burnt out. The common factor thus not being the objectively measurable amount of work. My own formula for diagnosing a work environment is more like Risk of Burnout = perception of expectations / perceptions of means to deliver But a more useful model might be the SCARF-model presented in this tech talk link to this video It seems to me that hours worked relates to issue of burnout more like lack of sleep to the risk of catching a cold. Potentially a big factor, but only incidentally.…
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