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  • Your Brain at Work

  • Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
  • By: David Rock
  • Narrated by: Bob Walter
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (83 ratings)

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Your Brain at Work

By: David Rock
Narrated by: Bob Walter
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Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT 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. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In this book, we travel inside Emily's and Paul's brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works - and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it's possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the listener, not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but succeed in it - and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

Your Brain at Work explores issues such as:

  • Why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources
  • Why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
  • How 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 more effectively with others
  • Why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
  • How to be more effective at changing other people's behavior
©2009 David Rock (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

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Perhaps appropriate for beginners?

To be honest, I only managed about an hour of this audiobook. I did skip further ahead to see if it changed much but no luck.

Here's the thing: the content we're after is trapped inside these tedious 'Dick and Jane' type narratives that go on forever. If that sounds like your cup of tea, go for it. It's possible this kind of storytelling method is useful for those new to the subject. Personally, I found it extremely frustrating. I need my information served straight up.

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Extremely insightful

Loved this audio book! certainly exceeded my expectations - and boosted the dopamine levels ;)

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That you can manage your thoughts.

Excellent science backed analysis about how the brain works and how we can manage this area.

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Brilliant Book

Well delivered, easy to understand and highly practical/useful information. One of the best books I’ve listened to in a long time.

Highly recommended 😊.

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The best of the best

Changed my life. Listen and think about what you listened, then read the book, this will make you think about lots of things you didn't know that exists, and you will see that all makes a lot of sense.

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brilliant information

loved it because it revealed so much and made for excellent insights into the way the brain operates

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Technical but good

Hard to stay focus, technical words. Will need to listen more than once.👍
Good Audiobook.

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Connecting the brain

Life changer if you can apply to your life. For me the scenarios are awesome and help me understand the lessons better. Highly recommended for all walks of life, this really gave me a mental sweat. At the time of writing, I have been through the book 3 times. The first read (listen) took me two months to slowly digest the concepts, and with the persistence of my girlfriend I kept at it as we would discuss the book as I made progress. I will continue to study this book over the years I think. P.s this is also my first audible review ever, that's how strongly I feel about this book.

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an excellent resource to help manage a busy mind.

this is a great book. I've lead.t a great deal & it helped me manage a busy mind

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Holy Fuck Balls... Life Hack!

It tickled my mind, pleasure Reward Response.

Be a good human ples.
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Min - influence and impact. Cheers Kents

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