Focus: The Hidden Driver of ExcellenceIn Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world. Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not. |
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... demands several varieties of attention—sustained attention, alerting, orienting, and managing all that—each based in a distinctly unique web of brain circuitry, and each an essential mental tool.1 John's sustained scan for a rare ...
These interactions mold brain circuitry; the fewer hours spent with people—and the more spent staring at a digitized screen—portends deficits. Digital engagement comes at a cost in face time with real people—the medium where we learn to ...
Specialized circuitry in this area boosts the strength of incoming signals we want to concentrate on (that email) and dampens down those we choose to ignore (those people chattering away at the next table). Since focus demands we tune ...
... and whatever challenges life brings.4 During sharp focus, Davidson finds, key circuitry in the prefrontal cortex gets into a synchronized state with the object of that beam of awareness, a state he calls “phase-locking.
When our mind wanders off, our brain activates a host of brain circuits that chatter about things that have nothing to do with what we're trying to learn. Lacking focus, we store no crisp memory of what we're learning.
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Đánh giá của Người dùng - traumleben - LibraryThingIn a bit of irony, this book lacks focus. It's a decent survey of the overall importance of focus, but it ranges from light neuroscience, to environmental activism on, to leadership. Aside from ... Đọc toàn bộ bài đánh giá
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Đánh giá của Người dùng - grandpahobo - LibraryThingThe first half of this book was fascinating. It presents excellent information and insight into how our brains work with regard to attention and focus. The second half was really just a collection of ... Đọc toàn bộ bài đánh giá
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SelfAwareness | |
Seeing Ourselves as Others See | |
A Recipe for SelfControl | |
The Woman Who Knew Too Much | |
Social Sensitivity | |
Brains on Games | |
Breathing Buddies | |
The WellFocused Leader | |
The Leaders Triple Focus | |
What Makes a Leader? | |
Leading for the Long Future | |
Acknowledgments | |
Notes | |
Patterns Systems and Messes | |
System Blindness | |
Distant Threats | |
The Myth of 10000 Hours | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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Focus (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Harvard Business Review,Daniel Goleman,Heidi Grant,Amy Jen Su,Rasmus Hougaard,Maura Nevel Thomas Xem trước bị giới hạn - 2018 |