Summary of Daniel Goleman's Focus

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 John Berger, house detective, is constantly watching shoppers in a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He is focus embodied. His gaze roams like a spotlight. He is panoramic awareness alternating with constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal.
#2 Attention is a little-known and underappreciated mental asset. It is the beam of awareness that guides our thoughts and actions. It is vital for how we navigate life, and it is developed through cognitive science studies and practical applications.
#3 The indifference of that mother and the silence among the sisters are symptoms of how technology captures our attention and disrupts our connections. In 2006, the word pizzled entered our lexicon to describe the feeling people had when the person they were with whipped out a BlackBerry and started talking to someone else.
#4 The eight cognitive skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills. The eight mental skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Personal development
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353966
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Daniel Goleman's Focus
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

John Berger, house detective, is constantly watching shoppers in a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He is focus embodied. His gaze roams like a spotlight. He is panoramic awareness alternating with constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal.

#2

Attention is a little-known and underappreciated mental asset. It is the beam of awareness that guides our thoughts and actions. It is vital for how we navigate life, and it is developed through cognitive science studies and practical applications.

#3

The indifference of that mother and the silence among the sisters are symptoms of how technology captures our attention and disrupts our connections. In 2006, the word pizzled entered our lexicon to describe the feeling people had when the person they were with whipped out a BlackBerry and started talking to someone else.

#4

The eight cognitive skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills. The eight mental skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills.

#5

The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman called an away gesture, which tells another person that we are not interested in what’s going on here and now.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

There are two types of distractions: sensory and emotional. The former is easy to avoid, while the latter is difficult. The more your attention is disrupted, the worse you will perform.

#2

The ability to stay focused on a single task and ignore everything else is a result of specialized circuitry in the prefrontal regions of the brain. Focus allows us to tune out our emotional distractions, and those who focus best are relatively immune to emotional turbulence.

#3

The more we zone out while reading, the more holes we create in our mental model of the information. When we read a book, our brain constructs a network of pathways that embodies the information and connects it to the universe of such networks we already hold.

#4

The most precious resource in a computer system is not its processor, memory, disk, or network, but rather human attention. The solution to this human bottleneck depends on minimizing distractions: Project Aura proposes to do away with bothersome systems glitches so we don’t waste time in hassles.

#5

Our social capital and range of attention increases as we increase the number of social ties through which we gain crucial information, like tacit knowledge of how things work in a given environment.

#6

Full absorption in what we do feels good, and pleasure is the emotional marker for flow. People are in flow relatively rarely in daily life. The optimal brain state for getting work done well is marked by greater neural harmony.

#7

The bottom-up mind is faster in brain time, and is automatic and intuitive. It is the seat of our mental models of the world, and it is responsible for our habits and routines. The top-down mind is slower, voluntary, and effortful. It is the seat of self-control, and it can sometimes overpower automatic routines and emotions.

#8

The human brain is a mix of top-down and bottom-up systems. The top-down systems add talents like self-awareness and reflection, deliberation, and planning to our mind’s repertoire. The older, more primitive bottom-up systems favor short-term thinking, impulse, and speedy decisions.

#9

The more we run through a routine, the more it becomes rote and is taken over by bottom-up circuitry.