Book - Your Brain At Work By David Rock.
Summary
Dr. David is a professional writer who has helped more than 10,000 people with his training and lectures. He has a background in neuroscience and leadership that helped many people make maximum use of his brain.
Basically, if you read the book well, then you will read the experiences of the life of Emily and Paul on the daily basis, which is the fictional character of the book. But this concept allowed people to understand the activities and performance of their brain better. The best lessons we learn from the book are as follows;
Your brain examines issues such as work:
- Why does our brain feel so much, and how to maximize our mental resources
- Why is it so difficult to focus, and how to better manage distractions
- How to maximize your opportunity to gain insight that appears to solve inaccessible problems
- How to keep yourself calm in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
- How to collaborate more effectively with others
- Why is it so difficult to give feedback, and how to make it easy
- How to be more effective in changing the behavior of other people.
About the Author
David Rock is a consultant and lead coach who advises corporations around the world.
The author of Coaching of the Brain in Mind, Quit Leadership and Personal Best, he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, which is a major global consulting and coaching organization.
is on the International Business School CIMBA Advisory Board and the Cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. She lives in Sydney, Australia and New York City.
Introduction :-
how well do you know your brain..? how well can you explain ? what your brain is doing when you open your laptop to work ?or open a textbook to study ? or conduct a meeting in the book your brain at work .
author David Rock uses the latest neuroscience to help you understand .
what's going on in your brain while you work with a simple.
metaphor Rock says your mind is like a theater the stage in that theater is your short-term working memory and it's controlled by your prefrontal cortex that region just behind your forehead.
there are five functions you can perform on this stage you can use your stage to understand to recall to memorize to inhibit.
and to decide to help you think of these five functions throughout the think of the acronym you are M indy500 form these five functions effectively.
Your Brain At Work Book Summary
and none of these five functions can be completed without actors and audience members in your theater the actors are objects tasks and pieces of information .
your brain at work david rock summary
you're focused on at any one moment this bolg is currently an actor on your stage .
your audience is trying to make sense of it based on prior knowledge because audience members in your theater are maps of information in your long-term memory.
you have a map for recognizing objects in your environment like your laptop your phone or a piece of fruit sitting in front of you and those maps help you determine .
the value of each of those objects your maps also contain instructions for what you should do .
when you interact with one of these objects each time you try to understand recall or memorize.
you're trying to get audience members to connect with actors on stage each time you make a decision.
you get actors to line up on stage and audition for a lead role in an upcoming play.
now as you try to make sense of what's happening in the current moment other actors are waiting in the wings wanting to get on stage.
and capture your attention these backstage actors are distracting events in your environment like a text message that pops up on your phone or something.
you're worried about like a presentation you need to give tomorrow this is where the inhibit function of your theater comes into play when you inhibit.
it's as if you're using a stage director to stop actors from coming onto the stage and interrupting a good performance.
now in a typical theater you could fit a few thousand people and a stage could hold a few hundred people but your mental theater isn't a typical theater in your mental theater there are billions of seats for audience members but only a few actors can fit on a stage.
at one time recent research shows that the short-term working memory of the human brain that which represents your stage can only fit for actors that means your present attention can only hold up to four chunks of information at any moment .
these chunks of information might be four numbers for words or for familiar sentences .
you may have heard that it's possible to focus on seven units of information at one time .
but the study that originated that idea was misleading when someone showed.
that they could remember seven digits of information like seven digits of a phone number they were actually utilizing a process of simplifying and chunking to do so in the case of the phone number.
they found a way to chunk the first three numbers the next two numbers and the last two numbers and see the phone number as three chunks of information another basic example of simplifying.
and chunking is using an acronym to remember more than four pieces of new information like I did with your mind acronym acronyms in the form of a familiar word or phrase represent one chunk of information on your stage using acronyms is like dressing up an actor in elaborate costume it's still one actor .
information although you might be able to fit more than four actors under stage at one time a study by Brian McAlary at New York University found that the number of chunks of information.
you can remember accurately with no memory degradation is remarkably.
only one the second thing you need to know about your mental theater.
is that the stage lighting is very restricted the stage is illuminated by a single spotlight and that spotlight can only focus on one actor at a time if two or more actors are trying to get your attention.
the stage light needs to rapidly switch between those two actors now imagine watching a performance where two actors are talking at the same time and a spotlight is rapidly switching between those actors.
it's safe to say that would be a terrible performance to watch in the book author David Rock.
explains just how terrible that performance can be Rock explains a study from the University of California at San Diego .
that showed when participants tried to do two cognitively demanding tasks.
at the same time their cognitive capacity can drop from that of a Harvard MBA to that of an eight-year-old child .
it's a phenomenon called dual task interference a study at the University of London found that splitting your attention between email text messages and work tasks.
reduce your mental capacity by an average of 10 points on an IQ test that's the same effect of losing a night of sleep the third thing you must know about your mental theater is that your director becomes less effective later.
in the day over the course of the day hundreds of unwanted actors are trying to get on stage.
and mess up the scene each time your director has to hold back and unwanted actor it loses a bit of energy eventually the director becomes too weak and tired to stop unwanted actors from coming on to .
the scene and ruining the performance of the actor on stage these unwanted actors are afternoon food cravings or nearby conversations and they take the spotlight away from important .
your best chance for a good performance will be in the first half of any day .
when your stage director can do a better job of keeping unwanted actors off the stage .
in the end by simply considering the theater analogy of your mind and thinking my stage is getting full .
or I'm moving my spotlight around too much this scene is getting chaotic or my stage director is having a hard time keeping new actors off.
the stage I should do this in the morning you'll start optimizing the five critical functions your brain does at work.
that was the core message that I gather from your brain at work by David Rock.
it's a great book that explains many more nuances of how your brain functions at work I highly recommend it.
Conclusion -
your brain at work david rock summary
"Simply put, this intriguing book presents attractive researches about the functions, limitations and abilities of the brain,
and it teaches us how we can" complete "our own brain chemistry.
so that fulfillment and Worthy of reading and refining these skills. "(Stephen R. Covey, author of The Habits of Highly Effective People).
always thanks for reading your brain at work david rock summary and have yourself a productive week.
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