This was okay… good tips and anecdotes. Trying to keep myself motivated in my career and moving ahead. Time to focus.
This was okay… good tips and anecdotes. Trying to keep myself motivated in my career and moving ahead. Time to focus.
Ironically given the subject matter, this book seemed unfocused and disorganized to me. It felt like he actually wanted to write a book on leadership, not the neuroscience of focus and attention.
Knitting with a live Oprah meet up about “focus”. I‘m struggling to focus on Oprah to be honest. 😂
“L‘occhio della nostra mente si muove in una perenne danza fra l‘attenzione catturata dagli stimoli esterni e la concentrazione diretta volontariamente su qualcosa.” Cit.
I am interested in reading his other book Emotional Intelligence now. I liked this one, especially the second half of the book where he discusses meditation, mindfulness, and positivity and their impacts on our brains and decisions.
Being the science journalist that he is, Goleman gives an in-depth understanding of the anatomy of attention. I admittedly had to pull out my dictionary a few times, Goleman has quite an esoteric lexicon that may intimidate an infrequent reader but the message of the book shud not b lost in all the language.
When we lack focus, “we store no crisp memory of what we‘re learning.” This book will hv u looking
at ur phone less & disabling notifications
Easy to read explanations about how the mind works and how focus affects our lives. Informative and helpful in training yourself to improve focus.