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Use your brain effectively

A bewildering blizzard of email, phone calls, yet more email, meetings, projects, proposals and plans. This must be familiar territory — your average day at work. David Rock, a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world, has collaborated with world-renowned neuroscientists to find answers to the following: – Why do our brains feel so taxed; – How do we maximise our mental resources; – Why is it so hard to focus; – How do we manage distractions better; – How do we keep our cool in difficult situations; – How do we collaborate more effectively than others; and – How do we get more effective at changing other people’s behaviour? In his new book Your Brain at Work , Rock travels inside the brains of the two main characters as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they’re presented with and figure out how to prioritise, organise and act on them. Rock says while the brain is exquisitely powerful, it has some surprising performance limitations ...