Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated

Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

De: David Rock

Narrado por: Roger Wayne

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.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Real life examples

This book gives you insight on how your brain works in different situations. The author explains a situation that doesn’t go the way you wanted and why. Then explains how the situation could have gone better if you understood how your brain and other’s brains work.

Absolutely informative

Everyone needs this book! It's so helpful to reduce stress, work smarter and overcome distractions. I'm definitely going to listen again so it sinks in!

Awesome book!

I like it very much and i strongly recommend it. My director works now 24/7.

A new way to think

Paying attention to what I’m actually paying attention to is a new way of thinking that I very much enjoyed learning in this book. The story read well and resonated with things happening in our lives.

Excellent even second time around

I read the original 10 years ago. Now that I am similar age to the main characters and my kids are teens I enjoyed it even more. I even implemented some strategies at work and home.