Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectiveness

by Amy Brann

Everyone wants to be more effective at work and to get maximum impact from minimum effort. Make Your Brain Work shows you how to do this, using the latest insights from neuroscience about how our mind works and what really makes us tick. Author Amy Brann is an expert in brain science, but you don't have to she has distilled the key findings you need into non-technical, practical guidance. Read this clear, engaging book and discover the things you can do to get yourself functioning at the top of your capabilities, more of the time. Learn the habits, techniques and behaviours that will get you the results you want, by making your brain work for you. Leave stress, overwhelm, negative moods and poor time management behind - Make Your Brain Work is your passport to a new improved you!

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development, Science, Business, Productivity

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2013

Reviews

[هدى يحيى · Rating 2 out of 5]

من الكتب التي لا أؤمن بجدواها والتي تحاول بشتى الطرق مساعدة القارئ حتى يساعد نفسه
والتي غالبا ما يتصفحها معظمنا ولا يعملون بحرف مما كتب بها

يرتكز الكتاب على 3 شخصيات متخيلة
"كيت" و"جيسي" و"بين"
والذين يبدو أن لديهم إمكانات لم تستغل بعد
وعلى مدار الكتاب يتعلمون كيف يتولون مسئولية استغلال هذه الإمكانات
وذلك بمساعدة الشخصية الرابعة
"ستيورات"
والذي يبدو أنه يفهم كيف يخرج أفضل ما في الأشخاص
ويساعدهم على أن يكونوا أفضل ما يمكن أن يكونوا عليه

لم أستفد منه بحرف رغم كل هذا
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[Faloni © · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only thing you need to know is what I tell you.

[Ola · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well that was excruciatingly boring. This book took me literally forever to read. Unfortunately, basically everything you can find here is either common knowledge or some fun, semi-scientific facts you can find on the web. What also bugged me is that even though there's a list of books the author based her work on, there are no references for all the articles and experiments mentioned in the text, which makes you wonder whether or not all of this is just some trivia from the Internet (and we all know it isn't always the truth).
I should say though that the editing is very well done and I enjoyed the positioning of all text boxes and paragraphs on pages.

[Maria Graciela Molina C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Through each chapters you can understand all the parts of the brains and how the hormones interferes in our behavior and daily habits, special in the work place and very useful for daily life..

[Jenni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once you get past the poor grammar, typos, and out-dated illustrations, this book offers some good advice. It needs a proper summary chapter (or at least page) as it ends abruptly at the end of a chapter. The second half of it will only be relevant to you if you're a business owner or work in an office. However, it does show the links between biology and behaviour/emotion well and I learned a decent amount from it.

[Nicholas Whyte · Rating 4 out of 5]

https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/make-your-brain-work-by-amy-brann/

I like to read self-help books occasionally, and this was an interestingly different read, based on the proposition that a lot of our mental behaviour can be analysed in terms of the parts of the brain stimulated (or not) by various activities and the neurochemistry involved. There is a part of me that dislikes the thought that my perceptions and feelings are anything more (or less) than completely rational reactions to my accurate and perfect understanding of reality. But I found that liked Brann’s approach to taking a closer look at what is going on within the brain, and finding better ways to process the things the outside world flings at us. Understanding a process is usually the first step to influencing its outcome. So I got a bit more out of it than I had hoped.

[R · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you've never read a book on neuroscience at all, this might be just okay. Like plenty of other books that will be just okay if you've never bothered to look at yourself before. There will be better ones (and worse ones!), because this is mostly the usual self-help, self-improvement, self-exploitation kind of book. Should have been obvious from corporate clown testimonials plastered all over the book that it would be light on the science end.
There are plenty of references, don't get me wrong. But in between some actually valid science you'll find the marshmallow test, but only the cherry picked results, not the other ones that question it in several dimensions, the Daily Mail or CNN, corporate press releases and abject junk science from the likes of Amy Cuddy or a glowing reference to some spiral dynamics type quackery.
Wrapping a shallow message in neuro-jargon doesn't give it depth, it just damages science.

[Florence Dambricourt · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit disappointed. I had explored a lot of the subject while writing my latest self-development books, and I was hoping for something else. It may simply due to how the book is organised. The idea behind the example to apply to concrete situation is interesting but did not work for me. And the reference at the end of every chapter that we can get more on the book Web site drove me nuts. Say it once or twice - like intro or conclusion - but not on every chapter.

[Mickeymouse1986 · Rating 4 out of 5]

'Make your Brain Work' by Amy Brann is an interesting book which gives a nice overview over how the brain is actually working and how to work with your own brain to get the better person out of yourself. In the end it is a self Improvement book just not labeled as one. The scientific approach is much less than I actually hoped it would be. Nevertheless it is a great book and I already tried some of the techniques described in the book.

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives some really good insights into how other people function and the best approaches in interaction.

[Saleem Albes · Rating 2 out of 5]

رائع جدا وشرحه رهيب

[Rebekka Steg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over the past couple of months I have been reading Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectiveness by Amy Brann. Full disclosure: I received a free copy via the First Reads program on Goodreads however, all opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed it, but I also love learning about how our brain works and how we can use it to our full ability. The book is written in an easy-to-understand language, while still giving enough details and background information to sustain the claims made.

Make Your Brain Work covers such diverse topics as how our brain prioritizes, how we absorb new information, the way we deal with stress, controlling feelings and emotions, distractions, making decisions, focus, habits, conflicts, work-life balance, control, time versus energy, goals, motivation, meetings, presentations, leadership, sales and management. And all in less than 300 pages.

Of course books could be written, and have been written, on each of these topics, but for a quick insight with loads of practical tips and ideas I greatly recommend Make Your Brain Work by Amy Brann.

[Felix · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[GONZA · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book even if sometimes I thought it was not crystal clear, or better, it can be a little bit confusing if the reader is not so much "into the brain". Still what is the most important thing about this book is how the author explains the little changes that have to happen to make the big differences in our life.

Mi è piaciuto questo libro, anche se penso che per chi non è poi così "addentro al cervello" alcune informazioni possono risultare un po' confuse. Credo che comunque la cosa più importate sia come l'autrice evidezi come alcuni piccoli cambiamenti possano portare a grosse differenze nella nostra vita.

THANKS TO NETGALLEY AND KOGAN PAGE FOR THE PREVIEW

[Gwen · Rating 3 out of 5]

If time management systems have never worked for you and you wonder why, this book is an approachable framework for what interferes with your attempts to be more productive.

If you read a lot of neuroscience, you won't find anything new in this book. It's a good place to start if you haven't.

[Haila Al-Moajil · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a massive book that is filled knowledge and information that can benefit each one of us in our daily lives. I highly recommend this book for everyone.

[Susan Amper · Rating 2 out of 5]

This reads like a compilation of blog posts. There is nothing new here and nothing you can't find on the Internet.If you like to read self help books, this certainly won't hurt.

[Wilde Sky · Rating 3 out of 5]

This basic guide to making yourself more effective in the workplace was reasonable, but had a stodgy / academic writing style but without that much academic substance (in my opinion).