David Rock Quotes

#1. Microsoft has a division that studies the way people work, to develop efficiency-improving software. (According to Microsoft's research up to 2007, if you're looking for a technological solution to being more efficient, getting a bigger computer screen is one of the few clear winners.)

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#2. They need leaders who help them shine, who help them fulfill their potential at work.

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#3. New lovers tend to "lose their minds" and do all sorts of crazy things in the heat of the moment. One study showed that new lovers' brains have a lot in common with people on cocaine. Dopamine is sometimes called the "drug of desire." Too much dopamine, from being "high with excitement,

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#4. Schedule blocks of time for different modes of thinking.

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#5. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

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#6. study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.

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#7. The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

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#8. Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

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#9. One final insight about prioritizing involves getting disciplined about what you don't put on the stage. This means not thinking when you don't have to, becoming disciplined about not paying attention to non-urgent tasks unless, or until, it's truly essential that you do.

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#10. We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.

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#11. we see the world as we are, not as the world is.

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#12. testing out models, and then refining everything further, I developed a set of ideas that was transforming people's ability

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#13. Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)

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