Sort Your Brain Out: Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More - Brossura

Lewis, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857085379 ISBN 13: 9780857085375

Casa editrice: Capstone, 2014

Riassunto

Optimize your brainpower and performance with practical tools and skills

The human brain is constantly rewiring its 160 billion cells, continually and imperceptibly changing the way we think. Because of that, we can fundamentally change the way our brains work—for the better.Sort Your Brain Out shows you how to re-wire your brain to be more creative, make better decisions, improve your mood and memory, manage stress, and stave off senility. The book explains how the brain works and what you can do every day to subtly alter your behaviours, beliefs, and motivations to create positive change in your life and health.

• Presents tools and exercises for maximizing your brain power
• Written by brain scientist and television personality Dr. Jack Lewis and motivational speaker Adrian Webster
• Includes brain-powered self-help advice that will improve your mood, help you deal with stress, and be better and smarter at work or in your everyday life

In Sort Your Brain Out, you'll discover how to shape and control the most adaptable organ in your body to think more creatively, keep your memory sharp, and live a better life on a daily basis.

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Recensione:

An accessible, funny and useful guide to how to get the best out of our grey matter! (The Independent, August 2014)

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Ever feel like your head is in a scramble?

Your brain doesn't come with a user guide. Billions of people spend their lives scurrying around, all revved up, trying to get somewhere, but don't have a clue about the engine under their bonnet, its profound capabilities or how best to use it.

Get more out of the brain you've got

Most people take their brain for granted, some even forget it exists. Others spend hours down the gym working away on the body work, but few realize that with a basic understanding and a small amount of care, how much more they can get out of their mind.

With the help of TV's neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis and motivational business speaker Adrian Webster, you can learn how to:

• Boost your performance in life and work
• Manage stress
• Make better decisions
• Remember more for longer
• Become more creative

Grounded in scientific research yet packed with practical tips relevant to you,Sort Your Brain Out will help you get a better understanding of how your brain works and explore ways of achieving more out of it.

By training, adapting and exercising your brain you will perform at your very best.

"Distils a century of modern neuroscience into a remarkably fast-flowing and easy-to-read synthesis that describes what our brains do and how we can get the most out of them"
—Professor Karl Friston FRS, Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London

"Accessible, thought-provoking and full of useful, easy-to-follow tips about improving your everyday life through a better understanding of the brain"
—Killian Fox, writer for the Observer and other publications

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Capstone
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857085379
• ISBN 13: 9780857085375
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216