Smarter sharper thinking reduce stress, banish fatigue and find focus

Boost your brain and gain an edge in everything you do. Smarter Sharper Thinking reveals how you can expand your brain's capability to think well under stress, to focus and get more out of your day, to be more creative and innovative, and to prepare you for future challenges. Utilising the late...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brockis, Jenny, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton, Queensland, Australia : Wiley 2019.
Edición:2nd edition
Colección:Be your best (Wiley (Firm))
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630489706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Smarter Sharper Thinking
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Creating a high-performance brain
  • 1 Nutrition: Refuelling smart
  • You're such a fathead
  • Gut instinct
  • Fat is not always ugly
  • Minding your mind includes minding your weight
  • Food and focus
  • Priming the pump
  • Stocking up on willpower
  • The java jive
  • Our daily desk
  • Time is money
  • Feed your brain
  • For the organisation
  • Tips for building brain nutrition at work
  • For the individual
  • For the organisation
  • 2 Exercise: You've got to move it, move it
  • Business on the move
  • The fact is we think better after we exercise
  • Equipment order: one hamster wheel please
  • Is there an optimal time to exercise?
  • Is there a best exercise for our brains?
  • The solution for exercise phobia
  • The perils of too much sitting
  • Stand up for your brain!
  • Join the movement
  • Moving towards a positive thinkings pace
  • Don't stress me out!
  • Tips to boost exercise and physical activity
  • Getting to and from work
  • At work
  • Outside work
  • For the organisation
  • 3 Sleep: Bring me a dream
  • Respect the zeds
  • Scrambled eggs and sleep cycles
  • How do you know if you're getting enough (sleep)?
  • Taking out the trash
  • Too tired to sleep
  • A series of blows to the cognition
  • I'd die to go to sleep
  • Swing shift
  • Sleepless in Seattle, Tokyo, London, Sydney …
  • I'm sorry, I can't remember
  • Sleep stability
  • Fighting sleep can lead to fisticuffs
  • Playing catch-up doesn't work
  • Stay away from the (blue) light
  • Sleeping on the job: the power of the nap
  • Helping ourselves to sleep better
  • Brainy tips for better sleep hygiene
  • Brainy tips for avoiding workplace fatigue
  • 4 Mental stretch: Flexing our mental muscles
  • Curiosity breeds success.
  • When I was a child, I thought as a child
  • Bright sparks
  • Cultivating curiosity
  • Train your brain to change your mind
  • If I only had a brain: the Tin Man and other brainy myths
  • Myth #1: We use only 10 percent of our brain
  • Myth #2: We are either right brained or left brained
  • Myth #3: Brain training makes your brain younger
  • Myth #4: Brain training doesn't work
  • Take the challenge: could you pull the sword from the stone?
  • Brain time at the gym for the individual
  • Make it a daily habit
  • Ditch the props
  • Chase up old flames
  • Brain time at the gym for the workplace
  • Change the language
  • Change the mode of thinking
  • Part II: Operating a high-performance brain
  • 5 Focus: Adjusting our lens of attention
  • Fragmented focus
  • Give your brain a break
  • We have to manage our cognitive energy
  • Your brain is a 100-metre sprinter, not Tenzing Norgay
  • By working with your brain's natural design you work less to get more done, and done well. Efficiency and a cup of tea - who could ask for more?
  • You don't pay attention to me anymore
  • Rage against the machines?
  • Why monotasking is the new black
  • Strategies for focus
  • 6 Mindset: Does your attitude suck?
  • What's with the attitude?
  • Mindset over matter
  • I'm open-minded, but ...
  • Workplace perspective
  • The power of belief
  • For the individual: becoming brain type 'be positive'
  • Check in first at hotel reality
  • Know your choices
  • Watch your language
  • Keep practising!
  • For the organisation: keeping the door ajar
  • Develop a framework for positive and honest feedback
  • Praising effort by staff, regardless of outcome, matters
  • Ask what your staff finds exciting or motivating about their work
  • Avoid micromanagement
  • Build brain awareness about mindset in the organisation
  • 7 Healthy stress: Creating a brain-safe environment
  • Stress leave.
  • Why caring is sharing
  • Managing stress
  • Identify the culprit or culprits
  • Identify what you can change and what you can't
  • Choose your stress reduction plan
  • Implement your stress reduction plan
  • Psychological techniques to alleviate stress
  • Labelling
  • Reframing
  • Mobilising the brain to learn
  • Safety first
  • Towards mental stretch
  • Why learning really does take AGES
  • Your attention please
  • Generating memory
  • Emotion is crucial to learning
  • Spacing
  • Promoting a culture for learning
  • 8 Mindfulness: Finding enough thinking space
  • Operating at fast-forward
  • What's your perspective?
  • Mindfulness over matter
  • The secret is in the neuroplastic sauce
  • Live long and prosper
  • Team mindful
  • Mindfulness takes a bow
  • Johnny-come-lately
  • Coming off autopilot
  • Practice makes peaceful
  • How long should you practice?
  • How do I do this?
  • Focus on the breath
  • Mindful leadership
  • Part III: Integrating a high-performance brain
  • 9 Change ability: Adjusting to progress
  • Man overboard
  • The drama of change
  • The need for long-life batteries
  • The soothing balm of habit
  • The problem with change
  • External obstacles to change
  • Internal obstacles to change
  • Project change
  • Above all else, know your why
  • Share the vision
  • Make the change framework commercially collaborative
  • Take the first step, then the next
  • Create co-owners of the idea
  • Celebrate progress along the way
  • Stay flexible
  • Adopting a culture of change
  • 10 Innovation: Curiosity leads to insight and innovation
  • Whole-brain thinking
  • Type creative
  • All that jazz
  • Aha! So that's what insight is all about
  • Flexible thinking and problem solving
  • Getting into RATs
  • Joining the dots
  • Free-range thinking
  • Time out for thought
  • Society and sensibility
  • Innovation in a flux
  • Creativity on the move.
  • It's brainstorming? Quick, get in out of the nasty weather!
  • For the individual: creativity 101
  • For the organisation: igniting the creativity spark
  • 11 Collaboration: Side by side
  • Start with connection
  • In peace and war, relationships matter
  • Please don't disconnect me
  • Being part of the in-crowd
  • Let's get physical
  • Creating a collaborative culture
  • Environmental engineering
  • Joining the hub
  • Team intelligence
  • Play the game
  • Finding the 'C' factor
  • Smells like team spirit
  • The problem with groupthink
  • Team work
  • 12 Leadership: Thought before action
  • What makes a good leader?
  • Laying a foundation for the future
  • Avoiding the seagulls
  • Bringing out the best in others
  • The ones in the wings
  • Once more, with meaning
  • Building self-leadership
  • The TRAICE™ model
  • Trust
  • Respect
  • Autonomy
  • Impartiality
  • Clarity
  • Empathy
  • Conclusion
  • Sources
  • EULA.