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 Dr. 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. Dr. 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 Dr. 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.
