Adopted from the following great insight shared by David Rock in his book Your Brain at Work..
“Study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.”
Adopted from the following great quote of David Rock from Your Brain at Work..
“Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.”
Adopted from the following great quote of David Rock from Your Brain at Work..
“A quiet mind allows the weak connections of non-conscious processing to rise to awareness”
Adopted from David Rock’s quote from Your Brain at Work
“1. Emails should contain as few words as possible. 2. Make it easy to see your central point at a glance, in one screen. 3. Never send an email that could emotionally affect another person unless it’s pure positive feedback. 4. Emotional issues must be discussed by phone; email should be used only to book a time for a call. 5. If you accidentally break rule number four, phone the person immediately, apologize, and discuss the issue by phone.”
Adopted from David Rock’s quote from his book Your Brain at Work
“Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)”
Adopted from David Rock’s great quotes in his book Your Brain at Work
“We see the world as we are, not as the world is.”
Adopted from the following quote of David Rock from his book Your Brain at Work
“We all often think about what’s easy to think about, rather than what’s right to think about.”
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.”
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,”
Adopted from David Rock’s book Your Brain at Work..
Stage here refers to the capacity of the human brain..
“One final 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.”