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Feeling unhappy? Learn how increasing your happiness is within your power, and how doing so directly influences your success.
Via Sandeep Gautam
"What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesar Rodriguez, the U.S. Air Force's last ace fighter pilot? In Mastery, Robert Greene's fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies. Picking up where The 48 Laws of Power left off, Greene culls years of research and original interviews to blend historical anecdote and psychological insight, distilling the universal ingredients of the world's masters.
Temple Grandin, Martha Graham, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller—all have lessons to offer about how the love for doing one thing exceptionally well can lead to mastery. Yet the secret, Greene maintains, is already in our heads. Debunking long-held cultural myths, he demonstrates just how we, as humans, are hardwired for achievement and supremacy. Fans of Greene's earlier work and Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers will eagerly devour this canny and erudite explanation of just what it takes to be great."
Neuroscience shows us how to have more insights
Authors@Google is proud to present Nassim N. Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talking about his new book.
A wellformed goal needs to engage your brain on both the why and the howbut you cant focus on both at the same time. Here's how to apply the latest...
Robert Desimone, a professor of neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives the first President's Lecture in Neuroscience of the Center for Neuroscience. Desimone knows how hard it is to concentrate on the task at hand - it's what he studies. He looks at the neural bases of attention, perception, and executive control. The impact of his research extends beyond perception to the subject of memory.
Lessons we can learn from Clayton Christensen, Professor and bestselling author from Harvard Business School regarding how to Innovate Your Life.
"Marshall Goldsmith's current book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, is a New York Times best-seller and was ranked as America's #1 best-selling business book in The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Goldsmith identifies 20 bad habits, mostly behavioral problems, that hinder high achievers from reaching future goals and suggests methods for promoting behavior change."
Neuroscience has grown from a subdiscipline of biology to a field in its own right, with its own proliferating subdisciplines. In coming decades, it will rival and then surpass the influence of the older physical sciences.
Who wouldn't want a higher level of emotional intelligence? Studies have shown that a high emotional quotient (or EQ) boosts career success, entrepreneurial potential, leadership talent, health, relationship satisfaction, humor, and happiness. It is also the best antidote to work stress and it matters in every job — because all jobs involve dealing with people, and people with higher EQ are more rewarding to deal with.
Via Roger Francis
As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their stories.
Via Robin Good
Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon.
We all view the world through different lenses. This has to do with our upbringing, our collective experiences, and our subconscious behavioral biases. Until we take a deep look into why we see the world the way we do, we'll never have the capacity for real change. Inherent biases cause us to make snap judgments based on bad information, to be unfair and to waste time. This is clearly problematic for investors, managers and people in general. We've collected a long list of cognitive biases from the Singularity Institute, Tim Richard's Psy-Fi Blog and more, to bring these biases to light so we can disrupt our thinking and come to terms with reality.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/behavioral-biases-2012-12?op=1#ixzz2UQ1FQvDA
Via Alessandro Cerboni
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Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.
"In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, Synaptic Self is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic."
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: Amazon.de: W. Timothy Gallwey, Pete Carroll, Zach Kleinman: Englische Bücher
"UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, has discovered that people of different personality types don't merely rely on different brain regions -- they use their brains in fundamentally different ways. Using colorful anecdotes and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares key insights from his lab. Among these insights: how people of different personalities can find and sustain a state of creative flow. This talk is suitable for a general audience including those who have passing familiarity with the Myers-Briggs types."
Research into brain science can help us cut through the mind-clutter.
Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.
Via David McGavock
Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function, UCLA study shows / UCLA Newsroom
"The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They’re intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith’s straightforward, jargon-free advice, it’s amazingly easy behavior to change."
Economic Times
Bill Gates: How To Succeed As An Introvert
Lifehacker Australia
Well, I think introverts can do quite well.
Via Social Introverts, Pat Weber
The Center for Creative Leadership did a study with data from 6,731 managers from 38 countries. Their study found that the ability to understand what others are feeling is a skill that clearly contributes to effective leadership. In some cultures, the connection between empathy and performance is particularly striking, placing an even greater value on empathy as a leadership skill. The findings were consistent across the sample: empathy is positively related to job performance. Managers who show more empathy toward direct reports are viewed as better performers in their job by their bosses. dr Ada
Via Edwin Rutsch, Mary Perfitt-Nelson, David Hain
According to today’s infographic, writing can serve as a calming, meditative tool. Stream of conscious writing exercises, in particular, have been identified as helpful stress coping methods. Keeping a journal, for example, or trying out free-writing exercises, can drastically reduce your levels of stress.
Via Dennis T OConnor, Lynnette Van Dyke, iPamba
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