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The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success
Ever wonder why some people seem blessed with success? In fact, everyone is capable of winning in life—you just need to develop the right brain for it.In The Winner’s Brain, Drs. Jeffrey Brown and Mark J. Fenske use cutting-edge neuroscience to identify the secrets of those who succeed no matter what—and demonstrate how little it has to do with IQ or upbringing. Through simple everyday practices, Brown and Fenske explain how to unlock the brain’s hidden potential, using:
• Balance: Make emotions work in your favor
• Bounce: Create a failure-resistant brain
• Opportunity Radar: Spot hot prospects previously hidden by problems
• Focus Laser: Lock into what’s important
• Effort Accelerator: Cultivate the drive to win
Along the way, meet dozens of interesting people who possess “win factors” (like the inventor of Whac-A-Mole™) and glean fascinating information (like why you should never take a test while wearing red). Compulsively readable, The Winner’s Brain will not only give you an edge, but also motivate you to pursue your biggest dreams.
• Balance: Make emotions work in your favor
• Bounce: Create a failure-resistant brain
• Opportunity Radar: Spot hot prospects previously hidden by problems
• Focus Laser: Lock into what’s important
• Effort Accelerator: Cultivate the drive to win
Along the way, meet dozens of interesting people who possess “win factors” (like the inventor of Whac-A-Mole™) and glean fascinating information (like why you should never take a test while wearing red). Compulsively readable, The Winner’s Brain will not only give you an edge, but also motivate you to pursue your biggest dreams.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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September 12, 2015
Remove the anecdotes and this is a fantastic book ... similar to Robbins/Tracy/Burchard research.
Golden Nuggets:
---------------------
Winner’s brains :
1. Seem to contain a bottomless effort-supply... the ability to stop and re-power despite interruptions
2. Fire up emotion to push through boredom, while less tenacious individuals run out of steam
3. Adapt in exceptional ways over time
Definition of “Winner” : A person having extraordinary success in the areas of life she values most. She sets out to achieve whatever she accomplishes, and revels in the journey toward goals almost as much as the destination itself.
* You can literally build a better brain, neuron by neuron.
* The brain is active and subject to change, no matter what you do.
* What sets the winner apart is the desire and the know-how to take charge of the process.
* Focus reinvestment is a deliberate strategy that works.
Optimizing brain function is the key to:
---- satisfaction
---- becoming more engaged in life
---- reaching your potential
---- realizing your dreams
Winners have exceptional mind power which creates the following inner dialogue:
-------------------------------------------------------
1. Nothing ever distracts me from my goals
2. I strive for my goals until I reach them, no matter what
3. I always see a project through to the end
4. I easily tolerate being outside of my comfort zone
5. My decisions never lead to regret
6. If something’s too good to be true, then it usually is
7. If I’m not good at something, I find out how to improve
8. I can accurately identify potential in others and myself
9. It’s easy for me to recognize what I don’t know
10. I’m good at finding solutions when none seem to exist
11, When all goes wrong, I look for opportunity in the setback
12, If something doesn’t work out , I reboot, finding a new way to solve the problem
13. I can motivate myself easily
14. I rarely procrastinate
15. Even if I’m in last place, I find the strength to finish the race
The 8 Factors in Winning:
-----------------------------
1. Self-awareness
2. Motivation - doesn't hit winners like a bolt of lightening, but flows through them like an electrical current. Allows them to glide right over obstacles that stop less-determined people cold. It helps them push through challenges, even when there is little external impetus to spur it on. Motivation primes the mind to see rewards even when they are a long way off… indeed, even when there's no guarantee those rewards will ever come.
3. Focus - Winners have the ability to hone in on an item at the moment...especially when the moment is full of stressors. Winners deliberately calibrate their focus under a wide variety of circumstances in order to call on the best type of focus for the task at hand.
4. Emotional balance - Winners put feelings to good use, making them work in their favor.
5. Memory - Used to help anticipate the future, and make predictions about the best way to respond to a novel situation. Winners rapidly scan for old information that helps them better understand new circumstances.
6. Resilience - Winners get up “one more time” more than anyone else. This is bounce, the very definition of resilience. It’s about the big comeback, and about not backing down.
7. Adaptability - Winners know when to be an open book, and when to close. They watch body language, and determine people’s true emotional state in less than a second.
8. Brain care - Exercise is essential. Berry flavanoids cross the blood-brain-barrier and have an excellent effect on brain performance.
Some Winner’s Tools
--------------------------
1. Opportunity radar - Winners are continually scanning for blips on life’s radar screen. Put yourself in the right place at the right time. We call this some sort of magical ability. Winners recognize opportunities don’t always come gift-wrapped but inside a problem : an opportunity that everyone else has missed. Winner’s depend on intuition, which is a type of radar. Develop the openness to do it with a fresh eye.
2. Optimal risk gauge - know how to evaluate consequences before making any leap.
3. Goal laser - Take aim at what you want out of life without allowing the static of distractions and stressors to interfere. Gives you the patience to delay gratification - often for years - without getting sidetracked along the way.
4. Effort accelerator - Their high persistence and consistency ensures work is always completed, whether they're in the mood or not.
Practical Tips:
--------------------------
* The only way to improve the future is to work on the present.
* Focus on countless small victories.
* Motivation is required with mundane tasks as well as dreams.. especially when you have no hope or evidence of success. Seize the mundane.
* Why do we postpone necessary tasks instead of simply getting them done? Answer: they're too hazy. Concentrate on the first, concrete, mini-item that needs to be done... and get it done.
* Those seemingly insignificant tasks - the fundamentals - are what really makes an individual a superstar.
* Feeling the reward in accomplishing everyday activities is necessary, especially when obtainment of huge goals is a long way off.
* Winners have the sense that something is worth doing for its own sake: this means it’s really important.
* You make your own luck by focusing on the value of the work and the outcome of the task.
* Winners have a wonderful ability to focus on only the most important stuff. So gather significant details and tune out unnecessary distractions
* Flexible thinking that’s nurtured
* When you ask a winner how they did it, this is their response: “I just concentrated on my performance.”
* Maintain a narrow focus. Use mental horse blinders to tune everything else out.
* When thoughts wander off, bring your mind back to … you! Your future! Your success! Aren’t you worth it?
* Winners are quite skilled at monitoring their own thoughts, then managing their emotions accordingly.
* Those with an internal focus believe they are the master of their destiny. They always bounce back because they expect to bounce back.
* Commit to the belief that you have an active role in deciding your own fate.
Mastering flow:
------------------
* Definition of flow: the mental state when one is so highly immersed and so fully engaged in a practiced skill, she is able to "break free" and perform on auto-pilot.
* The positive energy that accompanies such states can be highly rewarding in and of itself. Focusing on material gain is a performance killer.
* Devote fewer inner resources to needless tasks, leaving some left over for the following target. This habitually insures the mind works on implicit memory.
* A structured practice produces big effects.
* Make an intentional conscious decision to improve your life by relentlessly committing to making changes in thinking and behaviors. This must be practiced routinely.
* Devote fewer inner resources to needless tasks, leaving some left over for the following target. This habitually insures the mind works on implicit memory.
* The winner’s strategy for sharpening your focusing skills: Practice, practice, practice until you perform on autopilot.
* Here's why: The more tasks you automate ---> the more info is shifted into implicit memory ---> the lighter the load on the attention systems ---> the more control you gain over your powers of focus.
* Learn new skills in a step-wise fashion : systematically, and thus in the easiest way possible.
* Top salespeople spend enormous time rehearsing their pitch, because thinking thru is almost as good as doing it.
* During visualization, be as vivid as possible to make the experience real. Maximize control... you can control everything in a fantasy! Use that control to take yourself where reality may not.
The Holy Grail
---------------------
"Here’s what really sets winners’ apart: They are willing to do the work. They take control over plasticity by intentionally making the changes they want, and deliberately take the steps to think and act in ways that fine-tune their brain and help to achieve their goals. They may make hard work look easy as they fluidly respond to changes taking place around them, but really they are like ducks on water … calm on the surface, paddling furiously underneath."
Golden Nuggets:
---------------------
Winner’s brains :
1. Seem to contain a bottomless effort-supply... the ability to stop and re-power despite interruptions
2. Fire up emotion to push through boredom, while less tenacious individuals run out of steam
3. Adapt in exceptional ways over time
Definition of “Winner” : A person having extraordinary success in the areas of life she values most. She sets out to achieve whatever she accomplishes, and revels in the journey toward goals almost as much as the destination itself.
* You can literally build a better brain, neuron by neuron.
* The brain is active and subject to change, no matter what you do.
* What sets the winner apart is the desire and the know-how to take charge of the process.
* Focus reinvestment is a deliberate strategy that works.
Optimizing brain function is the key to:
---- satisfaction
---- becoming more engaged in life
---- reaching your potential
---- realizing your dreams
Winners have exceptional mind power which creates the following inner dialogue:
-------------------------------------------------------
1. Nothing ever distracts me from my goals
2. I strive for my goals until I reach them, no matter what
3. I always see a project through to the end
4. I easily tolerate being outside of my comfort zone
5. My decisions never lead to regret
6. If something’s too good to be true, then it usually is
7. If I’m not good at something, I find out how to improve
8. I can accurately identify potential in others and myself
9. It’s easy for me to recognize what I don’t know
10. I’m good at finding solutions when none seem to exist
11, When all goes wrong, I look for opportunity in the setback
12, If something doesn’t work out , I reboot, finding a new way to solve the problem
13. I can motivate myself easily
14. I rarely procrastinate
15. Even if I’m in last place, I find the strength to finish the race
The 8 Factors in Winning:
-----------------------------
1. Self-awareness
2. Motivation - doesn't hit winners like a bolt of lightening, but flows through them like an electrical current. Allows them to glide right over obstacles that stop less-determined people cold. It helps them push through challenges, even when there is little external impetus to spur it on. Motivation primes the mind to see rewards even when they are a long way off… indeed, even when there's no guarantee those rewards will ever come.
3. Focus - Winners have the ability to hone in on an item at the moment...especially when the moment is full of stressors. Winners deliberately calibrate their focus under a wide variety of circumstances in order to call on the best type of focus for the task at hand.
4. Emotional balance - Winners put feelings to good use, making them work in their favor.
5. Memory - Used to help anticipate the future, and make predictions about the best way to respond to a novel situation. Winners rapidly scan for old information that helps them better understand new circumstances.
6. Resilience - Winners get up “one more time” more than anyone else. This is bounce, the very definition of resilience. It’s about the big comeback, and about not backing down.
7. Adaptability - Winners know when to be an open book, and when to close. They watch body language, and determine people’s true emotional state in less than a second.
8. Brain care - Exercise is essential. Berry flavanoids cross the blood-brain-barrier and have an excellent effect on brain performance.
Some Winner’s Tools
--------------------------
1. Opportunity radar - Winners are continually scanning for blips on life’s radar screen. Put yourself in the right place at the right time. We call this some sort of magical ability. Winners recognize opportunities don’t always come gift-wrapped but inside a problem : an opportunity that everyone else has missed. Winner’s depend on intuition, which is a type of radar. Develop the openness to do it with a fresh eye.
2. Optimal risk gauge - know how to evaluate consequences before making any leap.
3. Goal laser - Take aim at what you want out of life without allowing the static of distractions and stressors to interfere. Gives you the patience to delay gratification - often for years - without getting sidetracked along the way.
4. Effort accelerator - Their high persistence and consistency ensures work is always completed, whether they're in the mood or not.
Practical Tips:
--------------------------
* The only way to improve the future is to work on the present.
* Focus on countless small victories.
* Motivation is required with mundane tasks as well as dreams.. especially when you have no hope or evidence of success. Seize the mundane.
* Why do we postpone necessary tasks instead of simply getting them done? Answer: they're too hazy. Concentrate on the first, concrete, mini-item that needs to be done... and get it done.
* Those seemingly insignificant tasks - the fundamentals - are what really makes an individual a superstar.
* Feeling the reward in accomplishing everyday activities is necessary, especially when obtainment of huge goals is a long way off.
* Winners have the sense that something is worth doing for its own sake: this means it’s really important.
* You make your own luck by focusing on the value of the work and the outcome of the task.
* Winners have a wonderful ability to focus on only the most important stuff. So gather significant details and tune out unnecessary distractions
* Flexible thinking that’s nurtured
* When you ask a winner how they did it, this is their response: “I just concentrated on my performance.”
* Maintain a narrow focus. Use mental horse blinders to tune everything else out.
* When thoughts wander off, bring your mind back to … you! Your future! Your success! Aren’t you worth it?
* Winners are quite skilled at monitoring their own thoughts, then managing their emotions accordingly.
* Those with an internal focus believe they are the master of their destiny. They always bounce back because they expect to bounce back.
* Commit to the belief that you have an active role in deciding your own fate.
Mastering flow:
------------------
* Definition of flow: the mental state when one is so highly immersed and so fully engaged in a practiced skill, she is able to "break free" and perform on auto-pilot.
* The positive energy that accompanies such states can be highly rewarding in and of itself. Focusing on material gain is a performance killer.
* Devote fewer inner resources to needless tasks, leaving some left over for the following target. This habitually insures the mind works on implicit memory.
* A structured practice produces big effects.
* Make an intentional conscious decision to improve your life by relentlessly committing to making changes in thinking and behaviors. This must be practiced routinely.
* Devote fewer inner resources to needless tasks, leaving some left over for the following target. This habitually insures the mind works on implicit memory.
* The winner’s strategy for sharpening your focusing skills: Practice, practice, practice until you perform on autopilot.
* Here's why: The more tasks you automate ---> the more info is shifted into implicit memory ---> the lighter the load on the attention systems ---> the more control you gain over your powers of focus.
* Learn new skills in a step-wise fashion : systematically, and thus in the easiest way possible.
* Top salespeople spend enormous time rehearsing their pitch, because thinking thru is almost as good as doing it.
* During visualization, be as vivid as possible to make the experience real. Maximize control... you can control everything in a fantasy! Use that control to take yourself where reality may not.
The Holy Grail
---------------------
"Here’s what really sets winners’ apart: They are willing to do the work. They take control over plasticity by intentionally making the changes they want, and deliberately take the steps to think and act in ways that fine-tune their brain and help to achieve their goals. They may make hard work look easy as they fluidly respond to changes taking place around them, but really they are like ducks on water … calm on the surface, paddling furiously underneath."
October 9, 2016
Perhaps I've read too many books about neuroplasticity, but I didn't find anything in this book groundbreaking. Here's the brain care in a nutshell: get 7-8 hours of sleep each night, be physically active, eat good fat and stimulate your brain.
February 2, 2017
الكتاب اجنبى مترجم للعربية قراته ورقى و مش موجود pdf
عقلية "الناجح" و بلا بلا بلا استراتيجيات العقول "العظيمة" بلا بلا يحققوا"النجاح"
كل الكلمات اللى بين الاقواس فى العنوان هى مجرد جذب تجارى للقارىء و ملهاش اى اثر فى الكتاب ذاته
و لذلك نقص الكتاب نجمة لمغايرة عنوانه مضمونه
الكتاب كاتبينه واحد عالم اعصاب و وواحد بتاع تنمية بشرية مشاركة
كتب التنمية البشرية المصرية او العربية عامة هى ما يمكن ان نطلق عليه علم برمجة لغوية عصبية
استخدام الكلمات و الجمل ك رموز لتحفيز مناطق و افكار فى المخ تغير من سلوكك عن عمد و بشكل واعى بجعلك تتراجع عن عادة و تتبنى عادة جديدة ..يعنى تبطل سجير مثلا و تبتدى تلعب رياضة عن طريق شوية جمل تحفيز شوية جمل مثل السجاير مرض السجاير فقر السجاير قذارة ..انا استحق ان احيا بصحة احسن ......الخ جمل تحفيز ذاتيه او توبيخ او تنبيه الخ
برمجة "لغوية" عصبية
اما الكتاب بين يدينا فهو ببساطة يقول ان هناك تقنيات يمكن اتباعها بشكل عملى .."مش مجرد الفاظ او رموز او جمل مختارة بعناية للتأثير على العقل الواعى" و انما التأثير على المخ نفسيا و بنيويا "فسيولوجيا" عن طريق افعال لا اقوال...و هنا فائدة الكتاب
و لكنها برضه تقنيات من اجل حياة افضل..و ليس من اجل النجاح بمفهومه العملى او العظمة كما اعتقدتها انا او كما ستعتقدوها خطأ قراء الكتاب المقبلين...النجاح المالى او الوظيفى او المهنى او العملى
الاشخاص الامثلة التى ضربها مؤلفى الكتاب ..موسيقيين .....عامل تلميع الواجهات الزجاجية...اشخاص تعرضوا لاعتداء او اكتئاب او حريق...اطفائيين...عملاء فيدراليين...اطباء نفسيين او حتى لاعبى جمباز.... لا يوجد اى ابطال و لاا رجال اعمال عصاميين و لاا حائزى نوبل و لاا ولاا ولاا
الكتاب من تأليف كما ذكرت سابقا عالم اعصاب و اخصائى تنمية بشرية..الاول يهتم بذكر الاماكن و الاجزاء من المخ التى تومض "حرفيا" اثر كل ردة فعل نفسية و ازاء كل تجربة معرفية جديدة لصاحب هذا المخ....و الاخر يهتم بوصف السلوك النفسى و كيف يمكن تحسينه عبر عدة تقنيات...ثبت نجاعتها عمليا كما يصف العالم الاول
اغلب ابحاث الكتاب الفسيولوجية و التى يسردها العالم الاول مبنية على استخدام ال MRI اشعة الرنين المغناطيسى
و التى تعطى صورة و مسح ستاتيكى للمخ و بنيته ....و هناك ما يعرف ب fMRI مسح الرنين المغناطيسى الوظيفى
و هو ما يعطى صورة او مسح ديناميكى مع ال real time
أثناء ما سكون الشخص صاحب المخ يقوم بنشاط ما ...استعراض صور مفرحة محزنة مقززة مملة ...حل السودكو لعب ماتش شطرنج ..عزف موسيقى ...او حتى الاستماع اليها ...الخ
و من التجربتين على نفس المخ صورة ثابتة و صورة متحركة اثناء فعل ما يمكن تحديد اى اماكن المخ الاكثر نشاطا ووميض اثناء هذا النشاط
الكتاب ذكرنى ب كتب
خبايا العقل
و فى يتفق المؤلف الالمانى مع مؤلف الكتاب هذا حول نقطة ان كل فعل عملى او نشاط ذهنى يغير من بنية مخ صاحبه فسيولوجيا ...بل ان كل معرفة يتعلمها و تثبت تشكل مسار ثابت صلد بين عدة عصبونات هم اجزاء المعلومة ...الشيكولاتة قاتلة بالنسبة للكلاب ...مثلا ...ف عصبون الشيكولاتة و عصبون قاتلة و عصبون الكلاب يرتبطوا معا بمسار ثابت لا يتغير مع الزمن فى مخ هذا الشخص ...بل الابعد ان الرتابة فى تكرار اى مهارة تؤدى لثبت بنيوية فسيولوجية مخ هذا الشخص على تلك الحالة ..شق الحصين مثلا عند سائقى التاكسى اضخم من مثيله عند الشخص العادى..و الادهى ان تلك البنية الفسيولوجية قد تورث بمعنى ان يرث ابناء او احفاد هذا الشخص مخ ذو "شق حصين" اكبر من مثيله عند شخص اخر عادى
الخلاصة ...بنية المخ فى العموم واحدة لدى كل البشر و كلا منهم على حسب استخدامه ل عقله بيعمل له customization تعديل قد يكون ثابت و قد تنتقل تلك البنية ك default ل امخاخ احفاده و احفاد احفاد
ثم يبدؤا هم من الصفر فى اضافة و تغيير بنيتها عبر ما سيتعلموه هم الاخرون من مهارات عملية و معارف
المخ: ذكر أم أنثى؟
و فيه يقر د عمرو شريف بأن مخ الرجل مختلف مقدما عن مخ الانثى منذ الولادة و ذلك يؤدى لتباين فى فسيولوجية مخ كلا منهم عن الاخر بل و تباين فى ذكاءات قد يبرع فيها هذا الجنس دونا عن هذا ..لا لمهارة فردية بلا لان فسيولوجية مخ هذا الجنس تجعله متفوق فى هذا الذكاء عن هذا الجنس
المخ ذكر ام انثى: مخ الراجل مختلف فسيولوجيا عن مخ الست
كتابنا الحالى: ان اى مهارات علمية او نفسية بيتعلمها الانسان بيتغير فى اللينكات و الوصلات و بالتالية فى كيمياء و هيكل المخ الداخلى و ان اى مهارة بيتعلمها الانسان و بيفضل يكررها بتبتدى مع الزمن تكون مسار مادى فعلى بيزيد سماكة مع تكرار المهارة و الفعل دا ... فلابد الانسان يتعلم المهارات الايجابية و كمان يستبدل العادات السلبية ب عادات ايجابية عشان يتعمل هدم و بناء فى بنية مخه للاحسن
خبايا العقل: الاحفاد و اللى لسه مولودين و امخاخهم ابيض فولا بيرثوا بنية المخ الفسيولوجية المعقدة و اللى هى نهاية ما انتهى اليه مخ الجد بعد تعلمه ل معارف و مهارات
ملخص الكتاب ال 8 استراتيجيات:
الكتاب التالى : مالم يدرس حتى الآن في جامعة هارفارد: كلية إدارة الأعمال
عقلية "الناجح" و بلا بلا بلا استراتيجيات العقول "العظيمة" بلا بلا يحققوا"النجاح"
كل الكلمات اللى بين الاقواس فى العنوان هى مجرد جذب تجارى للقارىء و ملهاش اى اثر فى الكتاب ذاته
و لذلك نقص الكتاب نجمة لمغايرة عنوانه مضمونه
الكتاب كاتبينه واحد عالم اعصاب و وواحد بتاع تنمية بشرية مشاركة
كتب التنمية البشرية المصرية او العربية عامة هى ما يمكن ان نطلق عليه علم برمجة لغوية عصبية
استخدام الكلمات و الجمل ك رموز لتحفيز مناطق و افكار فى المخ تغير من سلوكك عن عمد و بشكل واعى بجعلك تتراجع عن عادة و تتبنى عادة جديدة ..يعنى تبطل سجير مثلا و تبتدى تلعب رياضة عن طريق شوية جمل تحفيز شوية جمل مثل السجاير مرض السجاير فقر السجاير قذارة ..انا استحق ان احيا بصحة احسن ......الخ جمل تحفيز ذاتيه او توبيخ او تنبيه الخ
برمجة "لغوية" عصبية
اما الكتاب بين يدينا فهو ببساطة يقول ان هناك تقنيات يمكن اتباعها بشكل عملى .."مش مجرد الفاظ او رموز او جمل مختارة بعناية للتأثير على العقل الواعى" و انما التأثير على المخ نفسيا و بنيويا "فسيولوجيا" عن طريق افعال لا اقوال...و هنا فائدة الكتاب
و لكنها برضه تقنيات من اجل حياة افضل..و ليس من اجل النجاح بمفهومه العملى او العظمة كما اعتقدتها انا او كما ستعتقدوها خطأ قراء الكتاب المقبلين...النجاح المالى او الوظيفى او المهنى او العملى
الاشخاص الامثلة التى ضربها مؤلفى الكتاب ..موسيقيين .....عامل تلميع الواجهات الزجاجية...اشخاص تعرضوا لاعتداء او اكتئاب او حريق...اطفائيين...عملاء فيدراليين...اطباء نفسيين او حتى لاعبى جمباز.... لا يوجد اى ابطال و لاا رجال اعمال عصاميين و لاا حائزى نوبل و لاا ولاا ولاا
الكتاب من تأليف كما ذكرت سابقا عالم اعصاب و اخصائى تنمية بشرية..الاول يهتم بذكر الاماكن و الاجزاء من المخ التى تومض "حرفيا" اثر كل ردة فعل نفسية و ازاء كل تجربة معرفية جديدة لصاحب هذا المخ....و الاخر يهتم بوصف السلوك النفسى و كيف يمكن تحسينه عبر عدة تقنيات...ثبت نجاعتها عمليا كما يصف العالم الاول
اغلب ابحاث الكتاب الفسيولوجية و التى يسردها العالم الاول مبنية على استخدام ال MRI اشعة الرنين المغناطيسى
و التى تعطى صورة و مسح ستاتيكى للمخ و بنيته ....و هناك ما يعرف ب fMRI مسح الرنين المغناطيسى الوظيفى
و هو ما يعطى صورة او مسح ديناميكى مع ال real time
أثناء ما سكون الشخص صاحب المخ يقوم بنشاط ما ...استعراض صور مفرحة محزنة مقززة مملة ...حل السودكو لعب ماتش شطرنج ..عزف موسيقى ...او حتى الاستماع اليها ...الخ
و من التجربتين على نفس المخ صورة ثابتة و صورة متحركة اثناء فعل ما يمكن تحديد اى اماكن المخ الاكثر نشاطا ووميض اثناء هذا النشاط
الكتاب ذكرنى ب كتب
خبايا العقل
و فى يتفق المؤلف الالمانى مع مؤلف الكتاب هذا حول نقطة ان كل فعل عملى او نشاط ذهنى يغير من بنية مخ صاحبه فسيولوجيا ...بل ان كل معرفة يتعلمها و تثبت تشكل مسار ثابت صلد بين عدة عصبونات هم اجزاء المعلومة ...الشيكولاتة قاتلة بالنسبة للكلاب ...مثلا ...ف عصبون الشيكولاتة و عصبون قاتلة و عصبون الكلاب يرتبطوا معا بمسار ثابت لا يتغير مع الزمن فى مخ هذا الشخص ...بل الابعد ان الرتابة فى تكرار اى مهارة تؤدى لثبت بنيوية فسيولوجية مخ هذا الشخص على تلك الحالة ..شق الحصين مثلا عند سائقى التاكسى اضخم من مثيله عند الشخص العادى..و الادهى ان تلك البنية الفسيولوجية قد تورث بمعنى ان يرث ابناء او احفاد هذا الشخص مخ ذو "شق حصين" اكبر من مثيله عند شخص اخر عادى
الخلاصة ...بنية المخ فى العموم واحدة لدى كل البشر و كلا منهم على حسب استخدامه ل عقله بيعمل له customization تعديل قد يكون ثابت و قد تنتقل تلك البنية ك default ل امخاخ احفاده و احفاد احفاد
ثم يبدؤا هم من الصفر فى اضافة و تغيير بنيتها عبر ما سيتعلموه هم الاخرون من مهارات عملية و معارف
المخ: ذكر أم أنثى؟
و فيه يقر د عمرو شريف بأن مخ الرجل مختلف مقدما عن مخ الانثى منذ الولادة و ذلك يؤدى لتباين فى فسيولوجية مخ كلا منهم عن الاخر بل و تباين فى ذكاءات قد يبرع فيها هذا الجنس دونا عن هذا ..لا لمهارة فردية بلا لان فسيولوجية مخ هذا الجنس تجعله متفوق فى هذا الذكاء عن هذا الجنس
المخ ذكر ام انثى: مخ الراجل مختلف فسيولوجيا عن مخ الست
كتابنا الحالى: ان اى مهارات علمية او نفسية بيتعلمها الانسان بيتغير فى اللينكات و الوصلات و بالتالية فى كيمياء و هيكل المخ الداخلى و ان اى مهارة بيتعلمها الانسان و بيفضل يكررها بتبتدى مع الزمن تكون مسار مادى فعلى بيزيد سماكة مع تكرار المهارة و الفعل دا ... فلابد الانسان يتعلم المهارات الايجابية و كمان يستبدل العادات السلبية ب عادات ايجابية عشان يتعمل هدم و بناء فى بنية مخه للاحسن
خبايا العقل: الاحفاد و اللى لسه مولودين و امخاخهم ابيض فولا بيرثوا بنية المخ الفسيولوجية المعقدة و اللى هى نهاية ما انتهى اليه مخ الجد بعد تعلمه ل معارف و مهارات
ملخص الكتاب ال 8 استراتيجيات:
الكتاب التالى : مالم يدرس حتى الآن في جامعة هارفارد: كلية إدارة الأعمال
June 7, 2010
I personally found this to be a two-star book, but that's because I found much of the material duplicative from other books I've read that were better, such as Brain Rules by Medina, With Winning In Mind by Bassham, Overachievement by Eliot, and books by Gary Klein.
Additionally, the book failed to deliver on some of it's promises, being week on both case studies and exercises I thought.
On a positive note, the material was a good refresher and I think anyone who hadn't read all the books I've mentioned above would get quite a bit more out of it. The tidbits on recent fMRI-based research were interesting as well.
Additionally, the book failed to deliver on some of it's promises, being week on both case studies and exercises I thought.
On a positive note, the material was a good refresher and I think anyone who hadn't read all the books I've mentioned above would get quite a bit more out of it. The tidbits on recent fMRI-based research were interesting as well.
backburner
April 21, 2016Resume
I always see a project through to the end.
I easily tolerate being outside of my comfort zone.
I'm good at finding solutions when none seem to exist.
Question
What can thinking be bad for--what kinds of thought experiments? (p 99 "thinking can be almost as good as doing")
eureka moments born from incubating an idea
Everyday things
Meditate or do deep breathing relaxation exercises or yoga for 30 min, three times/week or more.
Add half a cup of berries daily.
Drink 2-3, 8-oz of apple juice or eat 2-3 apples/ day.
Aim to lower body temp to induce sleep, such as taking a tepid shower.
p 152 washing the dishes, or taking a nap, enables your to unconsciously access peripheral information
p 129 'If you scan the list just as you enter the store, things will pop out at you because you have primed your brain. Seeing the list-items becomes a prediction in a sense.'
p 169 Choose three important, positive people in your life--someone from the past, someone from the present, and someone you wish to meet in the future. Visualize each person, one at a time, imagining why each of these individuals would want you to feel hope. Use all of your sense and let your brain fully imagine the experience of being with that person; see their smiles, hear their words of support, feel the warmth of their encouragement.
p 128 Expose yourself to as many new experiences as possible. Novelty stimulates activity in the memory centers, but also in the dopamine-rich midbrain areas about motivation & reward processing.
p 153 When you're in a tough situation, such as feeling pain (emotional or physical), focus on something different. (There simply aren't enough resources to go around.)
p 53 When you narrow the gap between your public and real self, it's easier to read how others experience you.
p 116 Try asking, 'What are you feeling?' instead of the typical 'What are you thinking?'
Go & use for fun
p 24 [MRI] Brief radio frequency pulses push protons out of alignment, causing them to emit a signal as they move back into place. The time it takes for them to move back depends on the type of tissue they're in.
p 25 [fMRI] Instead of looking for differences in anatomy, it measures changes in blood-oxygen levels.
>> MRI measures thickness, density, and volume, while fMRI focuses on brain function (activity)
Modeling therapy
p 51 mirror neurons [key resulting idea from Plato's Republic ~ utopia/ideal society can't be created with un-ideal role models]
p 62 blissfully unaware of your own deficiencies
don't know that you don't know
parts of the brain that are involved with proficiency are also often the same that handle proficiency awareness [double edged sword of incompetence]
p 68 Map, rev, drive:
A) mapping or route planning ~ what is the goal?
B) actually start ~ dopamine is a key for the urge to do something
C) sustain momentum
p 72 Dopamine-rich ventral tegmental area of the midbrain
burst of energy when you try learning something new
our preferences for novelty over familiar
p 77 If you view yourself as working for the primary purpose of "getting something," the activity ceases to be worth doing for its own sake. Although, extrinsic rewards can be useful in getting you over the hump. Sometimes a little push is necessary, but not for the long run.
p 98 scaffolding - practice the individual parts of a skill in a step-wise fashion before putting them all together as a whole.
p 103 tell how well someone is going to do the moment they
'If they look alert and there's a lot of head and body movement, I know they're doomed. When they're loose and relaxed [...]'
--using a passive approach worked best when the search was hard, but not so well when the search was simple.
~ gaze in a relaxed way at the center of the playing field; after each, bring back to the center
Buddhism (The Middle Way)
p 105 Flow happens when there is a balance
p 118 When trying to manage your emotions, deciding which situations to put yourself in.
p 120 The option of changing your perspective, process of reframing or reappraisal, is beneficial to view circumstances as something like a challenge rather than a problem.
p 125 Around 18 months (2.5 years) toddlers begin a language explosion, learning and retaining the meaning of up to 10 words per day.
p 126 When info hits the sensory areas, what you see - visual cortex - occipital lobe; what you hear - auditory cortex - temporal lobe; what you taste - insular-opercular cortex. Then they're rerouted to other neural destinations...
p 131 method of loci - To help remember a pin number, such as 1580, imagine walking into a bank carrying a candle (1), standing behind a seahorse (5), and seeing a snowman (8) bouncing a football (0) behind the counter.
p 135 Gesturing may make memories more durable because we're capitalizing on the effects of interaction.
p 144 viewing their brain activity at the instant they made an error, subjects learned the art of insular control--and thus emotional control--in just three four-minute sessions.
p 144 The average smoker tries to quit eight times before.
p 145 An internal locus of control is the belief that you are the master of your own destiny; an external locus of control is not. Externals believe events happen because an outside for such as their environment, another person, or a higher power is the cause and that there is very little they can do about it.
p 147 'Internals bounce back because they expect to bounce back. Externals are constantly looking back. They blame everything on luck. Eventually they just give up because they find it too hard to go on.'
[people categories]
p 22 Key function of the hippocampus is to form declarative memories
p 158 Hippocampus so named because its curved in the shape of a seahorse. Hippo means horse in Greek; kampos means sea monster.)
p 161 Look like duck on the water: calm on the surface, paddling furiously underneath.
p 162 Neurotransmitters are designed to respond in different ways to different situations and environments. When you sit on a park bench relaxing, different nuclei within the brainstem may turn down the dial on norepinephrine (helping you keep alert and aroused) and reward you with a shot of serotonin (feel-good). The result is a calmer, happier mood. Conversely, if you sit on the bench worrying about the million things that could go wrong with your day, those feel-good changes will be thwarted by your adrenal glands releasing a shot of cortisol to pump up your anxiety level.
p 163 These chemical changes are relatively transient, as are the electrical impulses associated with them, but over time if the signals travel along the same neural pathways often enough [repetition], the network of branches and bridges between synapses grows denser and more complex [...]
p 166 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - you start by evaluating your strengths and weaknesses and identifying specific measurable goals. Then you ameliorate limitations and play up your strengths.
p 168 CPT is no quick fix.
p 171 Practice diligently until it is on automatic pilot.
Poverty
p 180 We benefit from an enriched environment, living an interesting life full of challenges, relationships and accomplishments.
Sleep
p 184 If we cut back on calories the same way we withhold sleep, we would be a society of anorexics.
The annual Hands on a Hardbody endurance competition, in Texas, comes down to sleep. Contestants are given five min break per hr and 15 every six. Past years it's lasted 3.2, and 3.6 hours.
In the 2005 competition, one contestent "dropped out after 48 hours, then walked across the street, stole a gun and killed himself. His wife sued the dealship. It is common to hallucinate.
oddee.com
Biology
p 181 brain is nearly 60% fat
p 177 Think of glucose as the brain's main fuel source and oxygen as the means of ignition.
p 177 Regular workouts can increase the capacity of capillaries serving the brain (for better blood flow and oxygen uptake all the time in dailying living).
p 186 glucogen, a stored-form of glucose is the brain's only source of backup energy. Glycogen supplies are scant (as most of the brain's energy comes directly from glucose in the blood stream)
Meditation 'proof'
p 93 meditation practices 20 min/day
more time and effort you put in, the more benefits
p 94 wide focus - survey, manage and integrate multiple factors
p 101 Meditation helps adjusting your zoom lense (since it specifically trains the brain to alter its level of focus). Meditation can thicken the regions associated with attentional control.
p 102 two-month mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training for 30 min/day:
Amishi Jha & Michael Baime 2007 study, Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention, three subcomponents of attention, including the ability to prioritize and manage tasks and goals, the ability to voluntarily focus on specific information and the ability to stay alert to the environment.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cl...
http://users.phhp.ufl.edu/lwaxenbe/Ar...
p 164 Just meditate a few minutes a day and add a more formal practice once a week.
p 165 'see the patterns of emotions and actions. Recognizing those patterns is the first step tochanging [accepting] them.'
p 165 Sara Lazar, 'I believe that increased serotonin is one big reason why yoga has such a profound effect.'
p 188 meditation is one of the best sleep aids--though with diminishing returns: 'meditate up to 30 minutes a day will sleep better, but those who meditate for longer [...] interupted sleep.'
p 189 ten deep, slow breaths - immediate effect of sweeping fresh oxygen into your brain so you feel more relaxed and clearer minded.
Pretentiousness
p 190 Caffiene is preceived by the brain as similar to the neurotransmitter adenosine. The caffine binds to adenosine receptors in the basal forebrain so the can no longer latch onto the adenosine. Without the adenosine, the nerve cells speed up instead of slow down, stopping you from feeling tired for a few hours.
p 191 average cup of brewed coffee has 100 mg of caffeine, delaying the urge to sleep for 2-3 hrs.
Parents
p 180 2009 study by Yonas Geda found a lower risk of memory loss with people who pursued a hobby.
I always see a project through to the end.
I easily tolerate being outside of my comfort zone.
I'm good at finding solutions when none seem to exist.
Question
What can thinking be bad for--what kinds of thought experiments? (p 99 "thinking can be almost as good as doing")
eureka moments born from incubating an idea
Everyday things
Meditate or do deep breathing relaxation exercises or yoga for 30 min, three times/week or more.
Add half a cup of berries daily.
Drink 2-3, 8-oz of apple juice or eat 2-3 apples/ day.
Aim to lower body temp to induce sleep, such as taking a tepid shower.
p 152 washing the dishes, or taking a nap, enables your to unconsciously access peripheral information
p 129 'If you scan the list just as you enter the store, things will pop out at you because you have primed your brain. Seeing the list-items becomes a prediction in a sense.'
p 169 Choose three important, positive people in your life--someone from the past, someone from the present, and someone you wish to meet in the future. Visualize each person, one at a time, imagining why each of these individuals would want you to feel hope. Use all of your sense and let your brain fully imagine the experience of being with that person; see their smiles, hear their words of support, feel the warmth of their encouragement.
p 128 Expose yourself to as many new experiences as possible. Novelty stimulates activity in the memory centers, but also in the dopamine-rich midbrain areas about motivation & reward processing.
p 153 When you're in a tough situation, such as feeling pain (emotional or physical), focus on something different. (There simply aren't enough resources to go around.)
p 53 When you narrow the gap between your public and real self, it's easier to read how others experience you.
p 116 Try asking, 'What are you feeling?' instead of the typical 'What are you thinking?'
Go & use for fun
p 24 [MRI] Brief radio frequency pulses push protons out of alignment, causing them to emit a signal as they move back into place. The time it takes for them to move back depends on the type of tissue they're in.
p 25 [fMRI] Instead of looking for differences in anatomy, it measures changes in blood-oxygen levels.
>> MRI measures thickness, density, and volume, while fMRI focuses on brain function (activity)
Modeling therapy
p 51 mirror neurons [key resulting idea from Plato's Republic ~ utopia/ideal society can't be created with un-ideal role models]
p 62 blissfully unaware of your own deficiencies
don't know that you don't know
parts of the brain that are involved with proficiency are also often the same that handle proficiency awareness [double edged sword of incompetence]
p 68 Map, rev, drive:
A) mapping or route planning ~ what is the goal?
B) actually start ~ dopamine is a key for the urge to do something
C) sustain momentum
p 72 Dopamine-rich ventral tegmental area of the midbrain
burst of energy when you try learning something new
our preferences for novelty over familiar
p 77 If you view yourself as working for the primary purpose of "getting something," the activity ceases to be worth doing for its own sake. Although, extrinsic rewards can be useful in getting you over the hump. Sometimes a little push is necessary, but not for the long run.
p 98 scaffolding - practice the individual parts of a skill in a step-wise fashion before putting them all together as a whole.
p 103 tell how well someone is going to do the moment they
'If they look alert and there's a lot of head and body movement, I know they're doomed. When they're loose and relaxed [...]'
--using a passive approach worked best when the search was hard, but not so well when the search was simple.
~ gaze in a relaxed way at the center of the playing field; after each, bring back to the center
Buddhism (The Middle Way)
p 105 Flow happens when there is a balance
p 118 When trying to manage your emotions, deciding which situations to put yourself in.
p 120 The option of changing your perspective, process of reframing or reappraisal, is beneficial to view circumstances as something like a challenge rather than a problem.
p 125 Around 18 months (2.5 years) toddlers begin a language explosion, learning and retaining the meaning of up to 10 words per day.
p 126 When info hits the sensory areas, what you see - visual cortex - occipital lobe; what you hear - auditory cortex - temporal lobe; what you taste - insular-opercular cortex. Then they're rerouted to other neural destinations...
p 131 method of loci - To help remember a pin number, such as 1580, imagine walking into a bank carrying a candle (1), standing behind a seahorse (5), and seeing a snowman (8) bouncing a football (0) behind the counter.
p 135 Gesturing may make memories more durable because we're capitalizing on the effects of interaction.
p 144 viewing their brain activity at the instant they made an error, subjects learned the art of insular control--and thus emotional control--in just three four-minute sessions.
p 144 The average smoker tries to quit eight times before.
p 145 An internal locus of control is the belief that you are the master of your own destiny; an external locus of control is not. Externals believe events happen because an outside for such as their environment, another person, or a higher power is the cause and that there is very little they can do about it.
p 147 'Internals bounce back because they expect to bounce back. Externals are constantly looking back. They blame everything on luck. Eventually they just give up because they find it too hard to go on.'
[people categories]
p 22 Key function of the hippocampus is to form declarative memories
p 158 Hippocampus so named because its curved in the shape of a seahorse. Hippo means horse in Greek; kampos means sea monster.)
p 161 Look like duck on the water: calm on the surface, paddling furiously underneath.
p 162 Neurotransmitters are designed to respond in different ways to different situations and environments. When you sit on a park bench relaxing, different nuclei within the brainstem may turn down the dial on norepinephrine (helping you keep alert and aroused) and reward you with a shot of serotonin (feel-good). The result is a calmer, happier mood. Conversely, if you sit on the bench worrying about the million things that could go wrong with your day, those feel-good changes will be thwarted by your adrenal glands releasing a shot of cortisol to pump up your anxiety level.
p 163 These chemical changes are relatively transient, as are the electrical impulses associated with them, but over time if the signals travel along the same neural pathways often enough [repetition], the network of branches and bridges between synapses grows denser and more complex [...]
p 166 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - you start by evaluating your strengths and weaknesses and identifying specific measurable goals. Then you ameliorate limitations and play up your strengths.
p 168 CPT is no quick fix.
p 171 Practice diligently until it is on automatic pilot.
Poverty
p 180 We benefit from an enriched environment, living an interesting life full of challenges, relationships and accomplishments.
Sleep
p 184 If we cut back on calories the same way we withhold sleep, we would be a society of anorexics.
The annual Hands on a Hardbody endurance competition, in Texas, comes down to sleep. Contestants are given five min break per hr and 15 every six. Past years it's lasted 3.2, and 3.6 hours.
In the 2005 competition, one contestent "dropped out after 48 hours, then walked across the street, stole a gun and killed himself. His wife sued the dealship. It is common to hallucinate.
oddee.com
Biology
p 181 brain is nearly 60% fat
p 177 Think of glucose as the brain's main fuel source and oxygen as the means of ignition.
p 177 Regular workouts can increase the capacity of capillaries serving the brain (for better blood flow and oxygen uptake all the time in dailying living).
p 186 glucogen, a stored-form of glucose is the brain's only source of backup energy. Glycogen supplies are scant (as most of the brain's energy comes directly from glucose in the blood stream)
Meditation 'proof'
p 93 meditation practices 20 min/day
more time and effort you put in, the more benefits
p 94 wide focus - survey, manage and integrate multiple factors
p 101 Meditation helps adjusting your zoom lense (since it specifically trains the brain to alter its level of focus). Meditation can thicken the regions associated with attentional control.
p 102 two-month mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) training for 30 min/day:
Amishi Jha & Michael Baime 2007 study, Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention, three subcomponents of attention, including the ability to prioritize and manage tasks and goals, the ability to voluntarily focus on specific information and the ability to stay alert to the environment.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cl...
http://users.phhp.ufl.edu/lwaxenbe/Ar...
p 164 Just meditate a few minutes a day and add a more formal practice once a week.
p 165 'see the patterns of emotions and actions. Recognizing those patterns is the first step to
p 165 Sara Lazar, 'I believe that increased serotonin is one big reason why yoga has such a profound effect.'
p 188 meditation is one of the best sleep aids--though with diminishing returns: 'meditate up to 30 minutes a day will sleep better, but those who meditate for longer [...] interupted sleep.'
p 189 ten deep, slow breaths - immediate effect of sweeping fresh oxygen into your brain so you feel more relaxed and clearer minded.
Pretentiousness
p 190 Caffiene is preceived by the brain as similar to the neurotransmitter adenosine. The caffine binds to adenosine receptors in the basal forebrain so the can no longer latch onto the adenosine. Without the adenosine, the nerve cells speed up instead of slow down, stopping you from feeling tired for a few hours.
p 191 average cup of brewed coffee has 100 mg of caffeine, delaying the urge to sleep for 2-3 hrs.
Parents
p 180 2009 study by Yonas Geda found a lower risk of memory loss with people who pursued a hobby.
September 25, 2013
Two scientists with deep brain credentials have summarized the traits that result in success at any form of pursuit. The traits are: self-awareness, motivation, focus, emotional balance, memory, resilience, adaptability, and brain care. Chapters on each of these traits explain them along with key empirical insights, individual stories, and practical applications. Brain care covers both the physical needs of the brain (exercise, nutrition, and sleep) and the importance of continually stretching the mind with new experiences and thought processes. The authors also share five brain tools that winners have learned to optimize through the above traits: opportunity radar, optimal risk gauge, goal laser, effort accelerator, talent meter. Though they get brief treatment directly, these five stand on their own as useful dimensions to think about. I like this book for its simplicity and practicality. It's worth reading and keeping handy to occasionally prompt robust thinking when a performance boost is needed.
December 18, 2025
Cool book!
I've seen a lot of negative comments and I must say I do not agree with them. There are many authors that publish books and each is coming from a different angle. But some similarities between this and other books' studies are bound to be there. It hasn't shook my world or something like that but it could be a very nice starting point for someone who is starting to explore his/her brain and what it could be done to improve its capacity, though, it could use some more advice on each topic it presents.
But even if you, the reader, come across some similar things that you have heard before, what does that tell you? That the book is poorly written? Sure, if you are a bit simple minded. But it could also mean that more and more scientists come to the same conclusions. And that's a good thing, it means that anyone who is interested in self development should take them seriously and apply them in every day life.
Four stars from me.
I've seen a lot of negative comments and I must say I do not agree with them. There are many authors that publish books and each is coming from a different angle. But some similarities between this and other books' studies are bound to be there. It hasn't shook my world or something like that but it could be a very nice starting point for someone who is starting to explore his/her brain and what it could be done to improve its capacity, though, it could use some more advice on each topic it presents.
But even if you, the reader, come across some similar things that you have heard before, what does that tell you? That the book is poorly written? Sure, if you are a bit simple minded. But it could also mean that more and more scientists come to the same conclusions. And that's a good thing, it means that anyone who is interested in self development should take them seriously and apply them in every day life.
Four stars from me.
January 4, 2015
Great mix of neuroscience with self-help! The Winner's Brain kept me engaged from page one and is one of the most interesting books I've read recently. The big idea of the book is that there are certain characteristics of a brain that separate the most successful people in the world from the masses. These are not innate like most people believe, but skills that can be cultivated over time due to great effect of neuroplasticity. The author identified 8 of these strategies and pretty much nailed exactly what it takes to develop each one. That combined with interesting stories from lives of B.B. King and other famous individuals makes this book very easy to understand and apply in your life.
August 25, 2018
Read as an audiobook driving back and forth to work. If you've got a moderate familiarity with neuroscience you can skip that chapter. I learned a few new techniques, but I've been cultivating a good brain for awhile it seems. Maybe next month's business book will be more applicable.
September 5, 2020
This was a great read, but my favorite part? It was a recommendation from my 15-year-old son. He said that a lot of the things they recommend are things I already do. ❤️
September 21, 2018
While it has some sound principles, the way this book is written is, dare I say garbage. YES I DARE!!! Muahahahhaha. Now allow me to back up my assertion. The author tries to sound smart by making it seem as if they had extensive interviews with successful actress Laura Linney, gymnast Kerry Strug, and the inventor of the, umm, Whac-a-mole? How did they get in this conversation? Back to the point. As you read along you start to realize, the author is siting the same examples over and over and over again. And then you quickly realize. Hey! They probably just took this info off the internet and used it for their own cheesy purposes rather than do real research! Not only that, but the writing is often like this. Let me tell you about Kerry Strug's awesome vault and how she used a super awesome mindset to success despite her injury. Did I tell you about her vault? Let me do so again just in case you didn't get the point the first time. You know what, you probably need to hear that again. It's very disjointed, and while I agree with the base ideas, the presentation is just substandard crap.
August 23, 2014
The book has a very simplistic approach in defining the correlation between what the authors believe as a winning brain factor and science. They keep referring to certain fmi scan results to "prove" something.
The eight winners brain qualities would have been enough and would have made a good read, no need to legitimise it with brain scans.
The book was enjoyable to read, but I gave it a 2 star because it failed to convince me on its scientific approach to identify a winners brain.
The eight winners brain qualities would have been enough and would have made a good read, no need to legitimise it with brain scans.
The book was enjoyable to read, but I gave it a 2 star because it failed to convince me on its scientific approach to identify a winners brain.
October 18, 2014
Poorly written. Hard to read. Being an expert doesn't make you an author. No flow. Overall I wish I haven't wasted my time.
November 26, 2014
I read this book and all I got was a lousy super brain.
September 12, 2016
The Winner's Brain
by Mark Fenske
Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske wrote The Winner’s Brain to teach us the 8 strategies that great minds use to achieve success. Here’s what they do differently than the rest of us.
Self Awareness
Winners are aware of how they relate to the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world relates to them. A high level of self-awareness makes you more effective in your relationships, your work, and everything else that is important to you in your life.
There are three things that are important to understand if you want to make self-awareness work for you.
First, you need to understand your strengths. Understanding what talents you have and how you can use them to accomplish your goals is critical if you are going to succeed.
Second, you need to understand your weaknesses. If you mistakenly view your weaknesses as strengths, you’ll always be focussed on the wrong things.
Third, you need to understand what motivates you. If you are able to deploy your strengths (and minimize your weaknesses) against something that is inherently motivating to you, you’ll have the recipe for success.
Most people aren’t aware that self-awareness is a skill that you can develop. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on mindfulness.
As the authors point out, mindfulness connotes a present-centred, uncritical and nonreactive way of thinking about yourself and your circumstances. You can see your strengths, weaknesses and motivations for what they are, leading you to clarity about what steps to take next.
Speaking of motivation…
Motivation
Winners use motivation to slide over obstacles, even when the rewards are a long way off, or when the tasks seem small and mundane.
Most people think of motivation as something magical that either happens or doesn’t, without their control. However, the science tells us that motivation flows through your brain in a three-phase process.
The first phase of the process is something the authors call mapping, because this is where the brain maps out the final destination. This happens in the front half of your brain, which sifts through all of the possible objectives and possible outcomes, and settles on what it considers to be the best goal given the circumstances. If you were driving a car, this would be like locking in the destination on your GPS.
Once your brain locks on to the goal, it enters the second phase of the process called the rev phase. Dopamine starts to kick in giving you the “urge to do something”, and start working towards your goal or destination.
The third and final phase is “drive”, where the rubber meets the road. This process is sustained by the use of the limbic system and regions of the prefrontal cortex.
It’s not important to understand the science of what’s happening, but it is important to understand that winners are experts at getting all the way through this 3 step process, whereas average people stall out somewhere along the way.
This becomes critical when you need to get the mundane but important tasks done to achieve your goals. The antidote to this is to focus yourself on the concrete aspects of the tasks at hand, and to associate the completion of these tasks with the overall goal you are trying to achieve.
Focus
Winners have the ability to focus on the most important details, and under a wide variety of circumstances.
In our culture of constant distractions, it is becoming harder and harder to focus on the deep type of work that leads to accomplishing our biggest goals.
The science suggests that even though our brains possess an enormous amount of resources to help us focus, it can still only focus on one thing at a time. You’ve heard this all before, so instead of focussing on why we get off track, let’s focus on a strategy for getting back on track when we inevitably do.
First, admit to your self that you are off track.
Remind yourself of the original task and why it’s important to you.
Eliminate the factors that derailed your attention, like your cell phone and email.
Choose a starting point, and cue yourself with a word like “go”.
Pay attention to the small details of what you working on, giving you new perspective and immersing yourself in the work.
Emotional Balance
Winners recognize and anticipate emotional responses in themselves and others so they can start, stop, and adjust emotions to fit any given situation. Basically, they use emotions to their benefit instead of letting themselves be controlled by them.
All of your emotions are caused by brain activity. Some of this activity is involuntary, and some of it is voluntary. But in either case, how you feel dictates how you will act.
Most people associate feelings like happiness and contentment as always good, and feelings like anger and aggression as always bad. However, winners understand that “good and bad” isn’t the best way to look at their emotions. A better way to look at them is “helpful or not helpful.”
In any situation you encounter, there are two emotional factors that will help determine your success - choosing the right emotion, and choosing the right level of that emotion. For instance, there are many situations in which anger and aggression might be the appropriate response, but too much or too little will derail the situation.
Winners know that there is a connection between their emotions and their actions, and also that they can choose their emotions. A useful tool for choosing your emotions is to reframe the situation to fit your needs. It might sound trite, but viewing a situation as a challenge rather than a problem really does make all the difference in the actions you’ll take next.
Memory
Winners use memory to help them anticipate the future and adapt well to novel circumstances.
We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about our memories, but in many ways you are the sum of your remembered experiences. Outside of what is going on around you at this very second, everything else is in your head.
And what an amazing head it is! At 18 months, toddlers start to learn and retain the meaning of up to 10 words per day, and by the time they become adults they will have the ability to recognize about 60,000 words. But why do we store memories in the first place?
Harvard Medical School researcher Moshe Bar says the following:
Most people view memory like it’s a videotape or a photo album containing all of your life experiences. But really it’s there to directly influence the present moment and the way you perceive and interact with your environment.”
In other words, your memory is designed to help you imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. It’s there to help you make the best possible choice, right now.
This makes what you store in your memory and what you discard a fairly important factor in how you’ll succeed in life. So how do we create a memory bank to help us get to where we want to go?
One thing you can do is to expose your mind to as many new experiences as possible. It doesn’t have to be anything profound like jumping out of a plane. It could be as simple as learning some new words or trying out a new brand of shampoo. Cultivate this habit, and over time you’ll be giving your mind the ability to call upon an increasing reservoir of memories to help you get to where you want to go.
Another thing you can do is to repeat the things you really want to remember. The more you perform an action or learn something in a particular way, the easier it becomes to retrieve at the very moment you need it.
Resilience
When winners fail, they get up at least one more time than everyone else. They reframe failures so they work to their advantage, and recognize that the journey is only over when they say it’s over.
Psychologist Julian Rotter created the term “locus of control” to describe a person’s belief about what caused good and bad things to happen in their lives.
When you have an internal locus of control, you believe that you are the master of your own destiny. When you have an external locus of control, the opposite is true - you are at the mercy of external events and there is very little you can do about your fate.
Here’s the interesting part. The Winners of the world are not only better at getting up when life knocks them down, they actively search out situations that they know they are almost certain to fail at. They expect to fail. Not because they’re not good enough, but because what they are trying to achieve is so big, that they are bound to get tripped up along the way.
One thing you can do to build your own resilience is to find yourself a resilience role model. They are not hard to come by. Stephen King, the famous novelist, received so many rejection letters that he developed a system for collecting them.
JK Rowling was rejected dozens of times before a publisher agreed to take on Harry Potter. She was so poor that she couldn’t afford a computer or the cost to photocopy her book, so she manually typed out each 90,000 word manuscript to give each publisher.
Adaptability
Winners have the ability to adapt to changing circumstances, just like the brain is always changing based on how you use it. Winners are very strategic about this fact, always fine-tuning their brain for continued success.
Cab drivers in London are forced to learn the streets of London in almost photographic detail, which contains over 25,000 different streets and thousands of places of interest, like hospitals, hotels and statues.
That on it’s own is remarkable. But even more remarkable is the fact that by storing all of that knowledge in their brain, they actually reshape their brains. In particular, their hippocampus grows in proportion for how long they have been on the job, highlighting the fact that the shape and size of your brain is influenced directly by what it experiences.
Every time you think a thought, feel an emotion or take an action, there is a resulting change in your brain. These small changes add up to large effects over time.
One thing that you can do to change your brain in a positive way is to meditate. Studies have shown that as little as eight weeks of meditation was enough to detect increased thickness in the brainstem nuclei responsible for the release of serotonin, which is partly responsible for feelings of happiness and well-being.
Brain Care
Winners take good care of their brains with the right foods and the right amount of sleep and exercise. What is good for the body is typically good for the brain.
When you are working out, you are increasing your blood flow and bringing in a higher volume of oxygen from the air. The result is more oxygen to the brain, and better brain function. The long-term effects of this is to increase the capacity of capillaries serving the brain so that you get this effect not just while you are working out, but all the time.
Arthur Kramer, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois suggests that 30 minutes of moderate exercise three times a week is enough to do the trick.
Now that we’ve covered exercise - what type of fuel does your brain need to perform at its best? Getting the right amount of fats in your diet is critical. You should have a 4:1 omega-6 to omega-3 ratio for optimal brain function. Eating a few servings of cold water fish like salmon each week should do the trick.
Finally, after you’ve exercised and eaten well, you need to get your sleep. This isn’t anything you haven’t heard before, but it bears repeating. Carlyle Smith, a sleep researcher and psychology professor at Trent University has done research that suggests a full night’s rest can translate into a 20-30 percent improvement in motor skills.
If you struggle to get the sleep you need, one of the best ways to fall asleep and stay there is to meditate. Not only will it help you fall asleep, but doing it regularly will help you increase the quality of the sleep you have. It’s a double-whammy cure for insomnia.
Conclusion
Your brain is finely tuned piece of machinery, and how you use and take care of it will ultimately determine the success you achieve in your life. Please take care of it.
by Mark Fenske
Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske wrote The Winner’s Brain to teach us the 8 strategies that great minds use to achieve success. Here’s what they do differently than the rest of us.
Self Awareness
Winners are aware of how they relate to the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world relates to them. A high level of self-awareness makes you more effective in your relationships, your work, and everything else that is important to you in your life.
There are three things that are important to understand if you want to make self-awareness work for you.
First, you need to understand your strengths. Understanding what talents you have and how you can use them to accomplish your goals is critical if you are going to succeed.
Second, you need to understand your weaknesses. If you mistakenly view your weaknesses as strengths, you’ll always be focussed on the wrong things.
Third, you need to understand what motivates you. If you are able to deploy your strengths (and minimize your weaknesses) against something that is inherently motivating to you, you’ll have the recipe for success.
Most people aren’t aware that self-awareness is a skill that you can develop. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on mindfulness.
As the authors point out, mindfulness connotes a present-centred, uncritical and nonreactive way of thinking about yourself and your circumstances. You can see your strengths, weaknesses and motivations for what they are, leading you to clarity about what steps to take next.
Speaking of motivation…
Motivation
Winners use motivation to slide over obstacles, even when the rewards are a long way off, or when the tasks seem small and mundane.
Most people think of motivation as something magical that either happens or doesn’t, without their control. However, the science tells us that motivation flows through your brain in a three-phase process.
The first phase of the process is something the authors call mapping, because this is where the brain maps out the final destination. This happens in the front half of your brain, which sifts through all of the possible objectives and possible outcomes, and settles on what it considers to be the best goal given the circumstances. If you were driving a car, this would be like locking in the destination on your GPS.
Once your brain locks on to the goal, it enters the second phase of the process called the rev phase. Dopamine starts to kick in giving you the “urge to do something”, and start working towards your goal or destination.
The third and final phase is “drive”, where the rubber meets the road. This process is sustained by the use of the limbic system and regions of the prefrontal cortex.
It’s not important to understand the science of what’s happening, but it is important to understand that winners are experts at getting all the way through this 3 step process, whereas average people stall out somewhere along the way.
This becomes critical when you need to get the mundane but important tasks done to achieve your goals. The antidote to this is to focus yourself on the concrete aspects of the tasks at hand, and to associate the completion of these tasks with the overall goal you are trying to achieve.
Focus
Winners have the ability to focus on the most important details, and under a wide variety of circumstances.
In our culture of constant distractions, it is becoming harder and harder to focus on the deep type of work that leads to accomplishing our biggest goals.
The science suggests that even though our brains possess an enormous amount of resources to help us focus, it can still only focus on one thing at a time. You’ve heard this all before, so instead of focussing on why we get off track, let’s focus on a strategy for getting back on track when we inevitably do.
First, admit to your self that you are off track.
Remind yourself of the original task and why it’s important to you.
Eliminate the factors that derailed your attention, like your cell phone and email.
Choose a starting point, and cue yourself with a word like “go”.
Pay attention to the small details of what you working on, giving you new perspective and immersing yourself in the work.
Emotional Balance
Winners recognize and anticipate emotional responses in themselves and others so they can start, stop, and adjust emotions to fit any given situation. Basically, they use emotions to their benefit instead of letting themselves be controlled by them.
All of your emotions are caused by brain activity. Some of this activity is involuntary, and some of it is voluntary. But in either case, how you feel dictates how you will act.
Most people associate feelings like happiness and contentment as always good, and feelings like anger and aggression as always bad. However, winners understand that “good and bad” isn’t the best way to look at their emotions. A better way to look at them is “helpful or not helpful.”
In any situation you encounter, there are two emotional factors that will help determine your success - choosing the right emotion, and choosing the right level of that emotion. For instance, there are many situations in which anger and aggression might be the appropriate response, but too much or too little will derail the situation.
Winners know that there is a connection between their emotions and their actions, and also that they can choose their emotions. A useful tool for choosing your emotions is to reframe the situation to fit your needs. It might sound trite, but viewing a situation as a challenge rather than a problem really does make all the difference in the actions you’ll take next.
Memory
Winners use memory to help them anticipate the future and adapt well to novel circumstances.
We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about our memories, but in many ways you are the sum of your remembered experiences. Outside of what is going on around you at this very second, everything else is in your head.
And what an amazing head it is! At 18 months, toddlers start to learn and retain the meaning of up to 10 words per day, and by the time they become adults they will have the ability to recognize about 60,000 words. But why do we store memories in the first place?
Harvard Medical School researcher Moshe Bar says the following:
Most people view memory like it’s a videotape or a photo album containing all of your life experiences. But really it’s there to directly influence the present moment and the way you perceive and interact with your environment.”
In other words, your memory is designed to help you imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. It’s there to help you make the best possible choice, right now.
This makes what you store in your memory and what you discard a fairly important factor in how you’ll succeed in life. So how do we create a memory bank to help us get to where we want to go?
One thing you can do is to expose your mind to as many new experiences as possible. It doesn’t have to be anything profound like jumping out of a plane. It could be as simple as learning some new words or trying out a new brand of shampoo. Cultivate this habit, and over time you’ll be giving your mind the ability to call upon an increasing reservoir of memories to help you get to where you want to go.
Another thing you can do is to repeat the things you really want to remember. The more you perform an action or learn something in a particular way, the easier it becomes to retrieve at the very moment you need it.
Resilience
When winners fail, they get up at least one more time than everyone else. They reframe failures so they work to their advantage, and recognize that the journey is only over when they say it’s over.
Psychologist Julian Rotter created the term “locus of control” to describe a person’s belief about what caused good and bad things to happen in their lives.
When you have an internal locus of control, you believe that you are the master of your own destiny. When you have an external locus of control, the opposite is true - you are at the mercy of external events and there is very little you can do about your fate.
Here’s the interesting part. The Winners of the world are not only better at getting up when life knocks them down, they actively search out situations that they know they are almost certain to fail at. They expect to fail. Not because they’re not good enough, but because what they are trying to achieve is so big, that they are bound to get tripped up along the way.
One thing you can do to build your own resilience is to find yourself a resilience role model. They are not hard to come by. Stephen King, the famous novelist, received so many rejection letters that he developed a system for collecting them.
JK Rowling was rejected dozens of times before a publisher agreed to take on Harry Potter. She was so poor that she couldn’t afford a computer or the cost to photocopy her book, so she manually typed out each 90,000 word manuscript to give each publisher.
Adaptability
Winners have the ability to adapt to changing circumstances, just like the brain is always changing based on how you use it. Winners are very strategic about this fact, always fine-tuning their brain for continued success.
Cab drivers in London are forced to learn the streets of London in almost photographic detail, which contains over 25,000 different streets and thousands of places of interest, like hospitals, hotels and statues.
That on it’s own is remarkable. But even more remarkable is the fact that by storing all of that knowledge in their brain, they actually reshape their brains. In particular, their hippocampus grows in proportion for how long they have been on the job, highlighting the fact that the shape and size of your brain is influenced directly by what it experiences.
Every time you think a thought, feel an emotion or take an action, there is a resulting change in your brain. These small changes add up to large effects over time.
One thing that you can do to change your brain in a positive way is to meditate. Studies have shown that as little as eight weeks of meditation was enough to detect increased thickness in the brainstem nuclei responsible for the release of serotonin, which is partly responsible for feelings of happiness and well-being.
Brain Care
Winners take good care of their brains with the right foods and the right amount of sleep and exercise. What is good for the body is typically good for the brain.
When you are working out, you are increasing your blood flow and bringing in a higher volume of oxygen from the air. The result is more oxygen to the brain, and better brain function. The long-term effects of this is to increase the capacity of capillaries serving the brain so that you get this effect not just while you are working out, but all the time.
Arthur Kramer, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois suggests that 30 minutes of moderate exercise three times a week is enough to do the trick.
Now that we’ve covered exercise - what type of fuel does your brain need to perform at its best? Getting the right amount of fats in your diet is critical. You should have a 4:1 omega-6 to omega-3 ratio for optimal brain function. Eating a few servings of cold water fish like salmon each week should do the trick.
Finally, after you’ve exercised and eaten well, you need to get your sleep. This isn’t anything you haven’t heard before, but it bears repeating. Carlyle Smith, a sleep researcher and psychology professor at Trent University has done research that suggests a full night’s rest can translate into a 20-30 percent improvement in motor skills.
If you struggle to get the sleep you need, one of the best ways to fall asleep and stay there is to meditate. Not only will it help you fall asleep, but doing it regularly will help you increase the quality of the sleep you have. It’s a double-whammy cure for insomnia.
Conclusion
Your brain is finely tuned piece of machinery, and how you use and take care of it will ultimately determine the success you achieve in your life. Please take care of it.
March 12, 2018
Buku ini ditemukan diantara tumpukan buku-buku diskon di pameran buku Landmark. Pertama kali tertarik dengan buku ini adalah karena pengen bgt baca buku self improvement! (mungkin ketagihan gara-gara baca buku Brahm, pengaruh temen jg sih..wkwkwkw).
Keseluruhan buku ini menyajikan sekilas info tentang keadaan otak kita, bagaimana ia bekerja dan bereaksi terhadap beberapa rangsangan tertentu di awal bab. Pada bab selanjutnya dijelaskan tentang perangkat-perangkat yang menjadi bahan baku pemenang yaitu; radar peluang, ukuran resiko optimal, laser sasaran, akselerator usaha dan yang terakhir adalah bakat. Perangkat-perangkat tersebut tidak akan bisa terpakai dengan baik jika tidak ada faktor pengeraknya, yang tidak lain adalah otak kita sendiri.
Faktor-faktor penentu kemenangan seperti; kesadaran diri, motivasi, fokus, keseimbangan emosi, memori, kegigihan, penyesuaian dan pemeliharaan otak menjadi highlight dalam buku ini. Bagaimana otak kita bekerja untuk memperoleh kemenangan, ditentukan oleh faktor-faktor yang telah disebutkan sebelumnya. Bagaimana jika faktor-faktor kehidupan kita tidak memungkinkan atau tidak mendukung kemenangan itu sendiri? Jika anda membaca buku ini, tidak ada hal yang tidak mungkin dilakukan untuk menjadi seorang pemenang. Buku ini juga dilengkapi oleh cerita orang-orang sukses dan referensi penelitian yang mendukung teori atau hypotesis ttg kemenangan..Benar-benar memotivasi =)
Keseluruhan buku ini menyajikan sekilas info tentang keadaan otak kita, bagaimana ia bekerja dan bereaksi terhadap beberapa rangsangan tertentu di awal bab. Pada bab selanjutnya dijelaskan tentang perangkat-perangkat yang menjadi bahan baku pemenang yaitu; radar peluang, ukuran resiko optimal, laser sasaran, akselerator usaha dan yang terakhir adalah bakat. Perangkat-perangkat tersebut tidak akan bisa terpakai dengan baik jika tidak ada faktor pengeraknya, yang tidak lain adalah otak kita sendiri.
Faktor-faktor penentu kemenangan seperti; kesadaran diri, motivasi, fokus, keseimbangan emosi, memori, kegigihan, penyesuaian dan pemeliharaan otak menjadi highlight dalam buku ini. Bagaimana otak kita bekerja untuk memperoleh kemenangan, ditentukan oleh faktor-faktor yang telah disebutkan sebelumnya. Bagaimana jika faktor-faktor kehidupan kita tidak memungkinkan atau tidak mendukung kemenangan itu sendiri? Jika anda membaca buku ini, tidak ada hal yang tidak mungkin dilakukan untuk menjadi seorang pemenang. Buku ini juga dilengkapi oleh cerita orang-orang sukses dan referensi penelitian yang mendukung teori atau hypotesis ttg kemenangan..Benar-benar memotivasi =)
October 25, 2025
I didn’t expect a neuroscience book to feel this warm. The Winner’s Brain talks about success, yes — but it does it with empathy, curiosity, and care. It’s written in such a clear, human way that you actually feel encouraged to take better care of yourself and your mind.
What I loved most is how the book blends science with real-life wisdom. The eight Win Factors — from Self-Awareness to Resilience and Brain Care — are practical, beautifully explained, and surprisingly kind. It’s not about being perfect or “winning” in the competitive sense; it’s about becoming more balanced, focused, and emotionally aware.
Some parts really stuck with me: learning to relax when focus becomes forced, reframing failure as information, and the reminder that our brains are still changing every day — even as adults.
It’s almost like the authors are saying: be patient with yourself, your brain is listening.
A book I’ll come back to whenever I need to realign, find motivation again, or remember that growth is a lifelong process.
What I loved most is how the book blends science with real-life wisdom. The eight Win Factors — from Self-Awareness to Resilience and Brain Care — are practical, beautifully explained, and surprisingly kind. It’s not about being perfect or “winning” in the competitive sense; it’s about becoming more balanced, focused, and emotionally aware.
Some parts really stuck with me: learning to relax when focus becomes forced, reframing failure as information, and the reminder that our brains are still changing every day — even as adults.
It’s almost like the authors are saying: be patient with yourself, your brain is listening.
A book I’ll come back to whenever I need to realign, find motivation again, or remember that growth is a lifelong process.
August 21, 2020
I found this book that available on legal sites for reading. Tbh bahasanya susah dimengerti, tetapi ini bisa mengasah aku untuk membaca dengan perlahan-lahan, hati-hati dan teliti. Jika dipahami dengan seksama, bakal seru banget kok bacain buku semacam ini hehe :)
So here is my review; buku ini menjelaskan bahwa, pada dasarnya, setiap orang pasti memiliki sesuatu yang dibutuhkan untuk mencapai keberhasilan. Akan tetapi, seorang pemenang menggunakan otak mereka secara strategis dan proaktif sehingga mereka memimpin adaptabilitas otak daripada menunggu di waktu yang tepat.
Singkatnya sih, buku ini membahas bagaimana otak dapat menjadi aset yang sangat berharga dimulai dari diam membiarkan otak berkelana kemudian mencurahkan ide-ide hebat sampai dengan menciptakan sesuatu hingga mencapai kesuksesan. Worth to read banget!
So here is my review; buku ini menjelaskan bahwa, pada dasarnya, setiap orang pasti memiliki sesuatu yang dibutuhkan untuk mencapai keberhasilan. Akan tetapi, seorang pemenang menggunakan otak mereka secara strategis dan proaktif sehingga mereka memimpin adaptabilitas otak daripada menunggu di waktu yang tepat.
Singkatnya sih, buku ini membahas bagaimana otak dapat menjadi aset yang sangat berharga dimulai dari diam membiarkan otak berkelana kemudian mencurahkan ide-ide hebat sampai dengan menciptakan sesuatu hingga mencapai kesuksesan. Worth to read banget!
April 12, 2019
membahas tentang otak pemenang..cukup bagus isinya..namun saya suka bingung dengan istilah ilmiahnya..membuat bacaan tidak mengalir..di awal seperti membahas tentang di luar kemampuan otak..namun pernyataan penulis bahwa otak pun mampu mengendalikan motivasi...
ada teori yang saya coba tentang mengalihkan pikiran atau fokus untuk mengendalikan emosi..dan wow..ternyata berhasil..walaupun sifatnya temporer..
buku ini bisa dipraktekan dan harus kuat bacanya..soalnya banyak istilah yang tidak dimengerti sehingga saya mengantuk..
ada teori yang saya coba tentang mengalihkan pikiran atau fokus untuk mengendalikan emosi..dan wow..ternyata berhasil..walaupun sifatnya temporer..
buku ini bisa dipraktekan dan harus kuat bacanya..soalnya banyak istilah yang tidak dimengerti sehingga saya mengantuk..
July 17, 2022
Although the concept was nice, and the stories/advice were backed up by research - it just didn't keep my interest. There were important lessons shared, but nothing groundbreaking or life-changing. Self-help books are often a hit or a miss for me - this one was a miss. I often found myself constantly stopping it, and choosing to start and finish other books. I only ended up reading half of it and gave up. An overrated read in my opinion.
February 13, 2021
I didn't like this book the first time I started to read it. The science of it was to technical for my stage of personal development at the time, which after finishing it just now, really surprises me. I really enjoyed this book and got a lot out of it. I think this is an important book for anyone's collection.
June 22, 2020
This is a good book. Focus of this book is strategies and tools to develop "winners behavior" support with latest empirical research in neuroscience and positive psychology. The critics about this book only minor thing about Black and White picture from Indonesian publisher edition.
June 12, 2017
A good book that have scientific supported recommendations about successful and a healthy life. Also with good stories about people with the brain of the successful.
August 14, 2017
no original content, but not complete shit either
December 20, 2018
Perhaps I've read too many self-help books, I felt that there was nothing new here.
July 17, 2020
Extremely knowledgeable and informative
July 28, 2020
Alright I would say. Nice to read
August 3, 2020
It was a decent book
September 13, 2020
Authors were supporting their arguments with tons of studies or experiments findings made this book very academically sounds instead of just a layman ready read.
May 3, 2021
Really interesting
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