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  • This quote explains the merits of Self Awareness

    Adopted from David Rock’s great quote from his book Your Brain at Work..

    “Without this ability to stand outside your experience, without self-awareness, you would have little ability to moderate and direct your behavior moment to moment. Such real-time, goal-directed modulation of behavior is the key to acting as a mature adult. You need this capacity to free yourself from the automatic flow of experience, and to choose where to direct your attention. Without a director you are a mere automaton, driven by greed, fear, or habit.”

  • Fascinating quote that compares the brain of a “New Lover” with that of a “Drug Addict”

    Adopted from David Rock’s book Your Brain at Work..

    “New lovers tend to “lose their minds” and do all sorts of crazy things in the heat of the moment. One study showed that new lovers’ brains have a lot in common with people on cocaine. Dopamine is sometimes called the “drug of desire.” Too much dopamine, from being “high with excitement,”

  • This quote beautifully summarizes the working of a healthy human mind

    Adopted from the following great quote of David Rock in his book Your Brain At Work

    Cortisol – Leads to stress

    Dopamine – Addictive and stimulated by rewards

    Oxytocin – Love hormone and leads to fulfillment

    Serotonin – Leadership hormone

    “May your cortisol levels stay low, your dopamine levels high, your oxytocin run thick and rich, your serotonin build to a lovely plateau, and your ability to watch your brain at work keep you fascinated until your last breath. I wish you well on your journey.”

  • This quote is a masterclass on Mindfulness

    Adopted from the following great quote of David Rock in his book Your Brain At Work

    “Mindfulness is a habit, it’s something the more one does, the more likely one is to be in that mode with less and less effort…it’s a skill that can be learned. It’s accessing something we already have. Mindfulness isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is to remember to be mindful.”

  • This is how our brain can EASILY interpret problems

    Adopted from David Rock’s quotes from Your Brain At Work

    “Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.”