Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the 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,”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock from the book Your Brain at Work
“One insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don’t put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don’t have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it’s truly essential that you do.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book The Power of Mind
“The R-Directed aptitudes so often disdained and dismissed—artistry, empathy, taking the long view, pursuing the transcendent—will increasingly determine who soars and who stumbles. It’s a dizzying—but ultimately inspiring—change.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book The Power of Mind
“Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly “soft” aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book The Power of Mind
“At Sony, we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance, and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book The Power of Mind
“A genuine smile involves two facial muscles: (1) the zygomatic major muscle, which stretches from the cheekbone and lifts the corners of the mouth; and (2) the outer part of the obicularis oculi muscle, which orbits the eye, and is involved in pulling down the eyebrows and the skin below the eyebrows, pulling up the skin below the eye, and raising the cheeks.Artificial smiles involve only the zygomatic major.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book The Power of Mind
“We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computerlike capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, big-picture capabilities of what’s rising in its place, the Conceptual Age.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive
“Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” —PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art”
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive
“Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others–sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on–can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”