Your Brain at Work

Your Brain at Work

作者:戴维•罗克

出版社:Collins Business

出版年:2009-10-6

评分:9.1

ISBN:9780061771293

所属分类:行业好书

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内容简介

Meet Emily and Paul, the parents of two young children. Emily is a newly promoted executive in a large corporation, while Paul has his own business as a consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. For them, just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside the brains of Emily and Paul as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with and figure out how to prioritize, organize, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul—and for readers ofYour Brain at Work —they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works—and more specifically, how it works in a work setting.Your Brain at Workexplores:Why your brains feels so taxed, and how to take full advantage of your mental resources Why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractionsHow to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems How to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible How to collaborate with others more effectively Why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier How to effectively change other people's behaviorRock shows how it's possible not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but to succeed in it—and still feel energized at the end of the day, with a sense of accomplishment.

作者简介

[美]戴维•罗克(David Rock),英国国立密德萨斯大学神经科学领导力专业博士,神经领导学协会(NLI)联合创始人、首席执行官。NLI在24个国家开展业务,与《财富》世界100强中超过一半的企业有合作。NLI的研究成果被4500多家公司密切关注和应用,每年约有100万名管理者学习戴维开发的模型和工具。

戴维联手施瓦茨共同提出了“神经领导学”,并将其应用于个人和企业表现提升上,还创立了神经领导学峰会,将神经科学家与商业领导者聚在一起进行研讨。如今,每年有超过两万人参加该峰会。戴维还撰写了数百篇关于领导力、组织效能、大脑的文章,发表在《哈佛商业评论》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《福布斯》《财富》《今日美国》等全球知名媒体上。

译者是马梦捷(新浪微博ID:大心脏排排),德国图宾根大学文学硕士,曾组织翻译加拿大多伦多大学心理学课程视频《人格与其转变》,心...

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精彩摘录

过度唤醒不仅跟恐惧或焦虑相关,它也可以带来更为积极的感受,比如兴奋或欲望。刚恋爱的人经常会“失去理智”,在热恋中做出各种疯狂的事情。一项研究表明,刚刚坠入爱河的人,其大脑跟吸食了可卡因的人的大脑有很多共同之处。多巴胺有时也称为“欲望的毒药”。太多的多巴胺在令人兴奋不已的同时,也会让人疲惫不堪。任何象征着潜在奖赏的活动都会促进多巴胺分泌,并吸引我们的注意力。这是有些人难以停止赌博的部分原理,也是我们对某些手机App上瘾的原因。任何新奇的信息——出乎意料的新闻故事,或者猫咪做出不可思议行为的短视频——都会引发多巴胺分泌。这在短期内可能让你感觉良好,但随着时间的推移,你可能会沉迷于此,并因此降低智商。

——引自章节:场景五:探寻最佳状态


前额皮质的空间有限,原因之一在于竞争原则。在大脑舞台上保留住一个复杂概念通常需要激活视觉回路。当你思考时,你会在脑海中描绘出这个概念在空间上如何与其他概念相联系(工作记忆要么是视觉空间的形式,要么是听觉的形式,而前者的效率要高得多)。视觉意识(visualawareness)工作时一直处于竞争的状态,各个回路争先恐后地想要在大脑中形成外部事物的最佳内在表征。麻省理工学院麦戈文人脑研究院(McGovernInstituteforBrainResearch)的专家罗伯特·德西蒙(RobertDesimone)发现,大脑一次只能保留视觉对象的一个表征。这就像大家都玩过的视错觉游戏,在同一幅图片中,你看到的要么是一个花瓶,要么是一位老妇人。大脑在某一时刻必须选定一种感知,因此你不可能同时看到两种画面。但是,你可以在两种主导感知之间主动切换,这也是这类错觉游戏引人入胜的一个原因。

——引自章节:场景二:一想起来就头疼的项目

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