Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long (Revised & Updated Ed.)

工作其實容易讓你的腦袋秀斗，《Your Brain At Work》作者David Rock透過本書的案例與實驗讓讀者在工作中鍛鍊腦力。工作當然要用到我們的腦袋，不過為何有些人可以一心多用？

有些人卻無法調適工作的壓力？David Rock在本書中舉出五個威脅腦部運作的職場字彙，分別是status、certainty、autonomy、relatedness與fairness。工作上遇到的不確定性、工作無法發揮專長、人際關係有了問題與不平待遇之際，大腦就會開始感受到壓力。此時工作效率下滑，幫你更有效率的前額葉皮質區也突然失靈。這時專家提供了多種方式讓工作更順心愉快，包括了適度的跳脫現在的環境、透過聊天與運動舒壓、一次專注一件事情等讓大腦輕鬆與工作共處的秘訣都在本書的介紹當中。

In this revised edition updated with new findings, a researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday―revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.

Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients’ offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In Your Brain at Work, David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul’s brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day. Rock is an expert on how the brain functions in a work setting. By analyzing what is going on in their heads, he offers solutions Emily and Paul (and all of us) can use to survive and thrive in today’s hyperbusy work environment―and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

In Your Brain at Work, Rock explores issues such as:

why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources
why it’s so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions
how to maximize the chance of finding insights to solve seemingly insurmountable problems
how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible
how to collaborate more effectively with others
why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier
how to be more effective at changing other people’s behavior
and much more.