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Daniel Goleman – FOCUS : The Hidden Driver of Excellence
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FOCUS : The Hidden Driver Of Excellence

Daniel Goleman
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Explores The Science of Attention & How It Can Be Used To Achieve Excellence In A Variety Of Fields In Daily Lives

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ISBN 9780062344434
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Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Harper
Publication Date 29 July 2014
Pages 320
Weight 0.30 kg
Dimension 17 × 10.5 × 2.4 cm
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★★ New York Times Bestseller ★★
 
Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: Attention
 
Has attention become the scarcest resource these days? Yes, paying attention is a forgotten but increasingly valuable skill. As the world rapidly evolves, it becomes increasingly easy to distract, isolate, and feel lost with so much information and so much
 
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what’s new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life.
 
Goleman argues that attention is a scarce resource that must be carefully managed in order to achieve our goals. He provides a number of strategies for improving our focus, including mindfulness meditation, focused preparation, and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics”.


Focus shows you that attention is the thing that makes life worth living and helps you develop more of it to become focused in every area of life: work, relationships and your own attitude towards life and the planet.
 
Attention works much like a muscle: use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grows. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to contend with, let alone thrive, in a complex world.
 
Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. A well-lived life demands we be nimble at each. Goleman shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business.
 
Those who excel rely on what he calls Smart Practices such as mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain excellence.
 
Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers. Ultimately, Focus calls upon readers not only to pay attention to what matters most to them personally, but also to turn their attention to the pressing problems of the wider world, to the powerless and the poor, and to the future, not just to the seductively simple demands of here-and-now.
 
Here are some of the key takeaways from the book :
● Attention is a scarce resource that must be carefully managed in order to achieve our goals.
● There are different types of attention, including focused attention, sustained attention, and divided attention.
● Factors that can interfere with attention include stress, fatigue, and distractions.
● Mindfulness meditation, focused preparation, and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” are all effective strategies for improving our focus.
● Focus is essential for success in any field that requires concentration and skill.
● Focus is also important for our personal well-being.
 
In a nutshell, “Focus” is a well-researched and informative book that provides a comprehensive overview of the science of attention. Goleman’s strategies for improving our focus are practical and easy to follow. The book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to improve their focus and achieve their goals.
 
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KIRKUS REVIEW :
 
Goleman (Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence, 2011, etc.) argues that the ability to focus is “a little-noticed and underrated asset” that can help overcome problems like “zoning out” and “mind wandering,” among many others.
 
The author explains that attention span can be compared with a “mental muscle that we can strengthen by a work out,” with memorization and concentration being the forms of exercise that work the “muscle.” Showing how much time is spent in day-dreaming and mind wandering—up to 40 percent of the day, according to some estimates—Goleman identifies the changes in psychological and mental habits and activities that he believes will contribute to effectively addressing important contemporary issues like climate change and global warming.
 
Quick, default reactions, which focus on the short term and “favor now in decisions of all kinds,” prevent concentration on the long-term objectives that such issues demand. Goleman also believes that such a transformation will require new methods of leadership working through new kinds of institutions.
 
The success of future leaders will depend on their ability to maintain focus on long-term goals and improvements for the widest circles their influence can reach. The author supports his arguments with a psychological framework drawn from the contemporary field of neuroscience.
 
He refers to a Nature magazine study on the ambiguous effects of playing computer games—from “Minesweeper” to poker—and stresses that “face-to-face interactions…pick up a multitude of signals which help us connect well, and wire together the neurons involved.” Unfortunately, “during thousands of hours spent online,” he writes, “the wiring of the social brain gets virtually no exercise.”
 
A lively personalized account of the science of attention, which “ripples through most everything we seek to accomplish.”
 
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About the Author :
 
Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago).
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