The idea
Get a better understanding of scientific research on how people think, how they develop emotions and how they take decisions, so you can impact your own thoughts, emotions and decisions. The result: more ‘good days’!
Our insights
- 3 biological themes that impact how we think, feel and act (each time with their functioning, their advantages & disadvantages, their impact, how they’re triggered):
- Our deliberate (or controlled) system vs our automatic (or instinctive) system
- Our defensive (or blurred thinking) mode and our discovery (or clear thinking) mode
- The interaction between our body and our mind
- Seven building blocks of a good day, each time with specific toolkit, leveraging the 3 above biological themes: (1) priorities, (2) productivity, (3) relationships, (4) thinking, (5) influence, (6) resilience, (7) energy
Extracts
- « Set your intentions – set your filters. The point behind all of this is clear: we miss a big opportunity if we simply let the day happen to us »
- « Science shows that we’re more productive if we give ourselves periods of downtime between our bursts of hard work »
- « In the absence of any other information, we lean toward seeing strangers as potential threats »
- « Personal criticism, however well intended, naturally puts most people’s brains on high alert »
- « We tend to be attracted to ideas that are clear and simple, while subjecting difficult-to-understand ideas to more in-depth analysis and criticism »
- « Why is it sometimes hard to get our message through? In large part, it’s because other people’s automatic systems get in the way »
- « People’s brains form stronger associations around a new piece of information when it incudes emotion as well as facts; there’s more material for the brain to get its teeth into, so to speak »
- « Years of research suggest that if we can name the negative emotion we’re experiencing and describe succinctly what’s causing that feeling, we can reduce its hold on us »
- « Once you start thinking of good things, even if it feels hard initially, your associative brain will often trigger a cascade of other positive memories from the day – things that you might otherwise have all but forgotten about«
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TITLE: How to Have a Good Day
AUTHOR: Caroline Webb
Caroline Webb is an economist, management consultant and executive coach who has spent the last fifteen years showing her clients how to apply insights from behavioral science to boost their professional effectiveness and job satisfaction.
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PUBLISHER: Pan; Main Market Ed. edition (January 2017)
Our scores
Content: 4/5
Style: 4/5
Usability: 5/5