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A Brain for Business – A Brain for LifeBrain Hygiene, Optimising Expertise and Performance

A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life: Brain Hygiene, Optimising Expertise and Performance [This chapter explores how to ensure that best performance is achieved during the course of learning. Expert performance is on-the-job execution to a high standard of the work or task that you are engaged in, by bringing to bear your capacities, abilities, resources and attention to execute the task to a demanding standard. In this chapter I will be examining some of the most important factors associated with on-the-job performance, including learning and memory, and other important factors that underpin these such as sleep, aerobic fitness, self-control, motivation and mind-sets/conscientiousness. First, though, let’s undertake a thought experiment. I want you to imagine that you’re a taxi driver in London, one of the world’s oldest, largest and complex cities. A city in a constant state of flux with more languages in use than almost anywhere else on the planet; it is Europe’s largest city, with a population not far off nine million people. You’ve been driving this city for years; you are not allowed to rely on sat-nav systems, unlike other drivers.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Brain for Business – A Brain for LifeBrain Hygiene, Optimising Expertise and Performance

Part of the The Neuroscience of Business Book Series
O’Mara, Shane
Springer Journals — Aug 12, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-49153-0
Pages
107 –124
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-49154-7_8
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[This chapter explores how to ensure that best performance is achieved during the course of learning. Expert performance is on-the-job execution to a high standard of the work or task that you are engaged in, by bringing to bear your capacities, abilities, resources and attention to execute the task to a demanding standard. In this chapter I will be examining some of the most important factors associated with on-the-job performance, including learning and memory, and other important factors that underpin these such as sleep, aerobic fitness, self-control, motivation and mind-sets/conscientiousness. First, though, let’s undertake a thought experiment. I want you to imagine that you’re a taxi driver in London, one of the world’s oldest, largest and complex cities. A city in a constant state of flux with more languages in use than almost anywhere else on the planet; it is Europe’s largest city, with a population not far off nine million people. You’ve been driving this city for years; you are not allowed to rely on sat-nav systems, unlike other drivers.]

Published: Aug 12, 2017

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