
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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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
Incredible insight and performance
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Amazing is that wr are not aware of how mechanics of this organ operate day in day out.
Can be a bit monotonic, very good content.
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loved it
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Outstanding
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if you are a person like me and your mind is all over the place focussing on multiple tasks at once making mistakes by minute by hour By Day by week by year and you need a bit of control back and stop blaming yourself for it then please listen to this audiobook thank you for the writer and for the narrator and for all those who put effort in this audiobook.
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chaotic mind
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(Oh, and I know it's a preference thing, but I enjoyed the narrator's voice and style.)
Extremely useful book
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This book really plays with your mind
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What did you like most about Your Brain at Work?
Not sure why but I started to listened to this book before and it really didn’t connect with me. Was irritated with the style and the characters. Clearly it must have been my mindset at the time because recently I had a long journey and thought I may as well give it another go and switch to something else if I still don’t like it. Wow! - what a difference on the second attempt. Unlike other listeners, I found the scenarios really helpful and the information I took away is making a real difference. This is the first book that has actually helped me understand the days that just go wrong and how to change it and of course why some days just flow.I plan to replay it whilst not in the car and take more notes so I can refer to them and help keep me on track.
Highly recommend this, but be aware that you may need to hang in there and get into the subject and characters before fully understanding the message.
Loved it - but only on second attempt
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Fascinating insight into how my brain works
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an amazing book with an immense amount of detail
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