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Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectivenessby Amy BrannEnglish | ISBN: 0749467576 | 2013 | 312 pages | PDF | 12 MBEveryone wants to be more effective at work and to get maximum impact from minimum effort. Make Your Brain Work shows you how to do this, using the latest insights from neuroscience about how our mind works and what really makes us tick. Author Amy Brann is an expert in brain science, but you don’t have to be: she has distilled the key findings you need into non-technical, practical guidance. Read this clear, engaging book and discover the things you can do to get yourself functioning at the top of your capabilities, more of the time. Learn the habits, techniques and behaviours that will get you the results you want, by making your brain work for you. Leave stress, overwhelm, negative moods and poor time management behind – Make Your Brain Work is your passport to a new improved you! Latest insights from neuroscience to improve workplace skillsEditorial Reviews”If you are looking to master your life, you must master the use of your brain. Amy Brann has successfully put together today’s easy to read and understand instruction manual for your brain. Read this book, master your brain and master your life.”(Louis Lautman Executive Producer of The YES Movie)”This book is extremely well organized with many small topic sections and it needs to be because there is a ton of information in this book – it is very content dense. The book has summary bullet points at the end of each chapter that are very well done and effectively summarize the contents and the actions you need to take. There are a large number of references to scientific research. Due to the broad range of content this book is best digested in small doses and not long reading sessions. Highly recommended.”(Book Fanatic Top 500 Amazon reviewer)”[B]eneficial reading for anyone who wants to optimize theireffectiveness in both their professional and  personal lives. The book provides in-depth insights into neuroscience and how evolutionary developments and chemical reactions in the brain influence an individual’s responses to situations and other people. These insights can help anyone improve their ability to prioritize tasks, learn new things, adopt healthy habits, establish a positive attitude, and achieve goals.”(Business Book Summaries EBSCO)General readers and ambitious professionals who want to be more efficient, productive and effective at work”Make Your Brain Work is an engaging book that is simultaneously filled with insight and application. Amy Brann not only provides us with greater understanding on how the brain works but she also gives us useful tools on how to make the brain work for each of us.”(Stephen M. R. Covey author of The Speed of Trust, and coauthor of Smart Trust)”I really enjoyed it, but I also love learning about how our brain works and how we can use it to our full ability. The book is written in an easy-to-understand language, while still giving enough details and background information to sustain the claims made.  Make Your Brain Work covers such diverse topics as how our brain prioritizes, how we absorb new information, the way we deal with stress, controlling feelings and emotions, distractions, making decisions, focus, habits, conflicts, work-life balance, control, time versus energy, goals, motivation, meetings, presentations, leadership, sales and management. And all in less than 300 pages. …[F]or a quick insight with loads of practical tips and ideas I greatly recommend Make Your Brain Work by Amy Brann.”(Rebekka K. Steg Goodreads.com)”Make Your Brain Work brings neuroscience to life. Explaining how common challenges can be overcome through understanding what is really going on in your brain and the minds of others enables readers to make small changes that can ultimately make life more enjoyable. Easy to read and thoroughly beneficial to implement.”(Scott Martineau CEO ConsciousOne.com)”Make Your Brain Work is the first book to take cutting-edge neuroscience and apply it to improving one’s ability to be successful, and to feel successful, at work. Using a lively set of characters that illustrate not just what to do to improve the brain at work, but how to do it. Readers of Make Your Brain Work will undoubtedly be more productive and happier at work and at home.”(Paul J. Zak Author of The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperit)”The most misunderstood organ in the human body is the brain. Amy Brann’s insights will help you think your way to success instead of mindlessly doing the same old things over and over again.”(Al Ries author, War in the Boardroom and Positioning: The battle for your mind)About the AuthorAmy Brann studied medicine at University College London. During her second year of medical school, she read about how the mind actually works and interacts with the body. When she also came across Coaching as a profession, she chose the opportunity to spend the rest of her life studying people, learning more about the mind and applying that to help people live more enjoyable productive lives.Through her business, Synaptic Potential, she now works with many companies to help them better understand their teams, clients and organizations as a whole. Brann is the creator of the online community, “Neuroscience in Business.”  She is also the author of Neuroscience for Coaches (Kogan Page).