Autorentext

Therese Huston, Ph.D., is a cognitive scientist at Seattle University, where she transforms good science into great strategies. She was the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University and is now a consultant for their Center for Faculty Development. She is the author of Let's Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower; How Women Decide; and Teaching What You Don't Know and has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, The Guardian, and Harvard Business Review. Therese has led workshops and delivered presentations to Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and universities across the globe. She lives in Seattle with her husband and their dog, who insists on being the real boss of the household.

Klappentext

What if your best days weren't left to chance, but something you could control and activate at will? Most of us want to be a little happier, a little more focused, and a lot less stressed. We want simple approaches that are easy to fold into our everyday lives. In Sharp, you'll discover dozens of evidence-backed strategies to help you unlock your potential and enhance your performance--whether at work, school, home, or in relationships.
Cognitive scientist Therese Huston unpacks the latest neuroscience research to deliver a gold mine of techniques to help you feel your sharpest including:

• How a calming deep breathing technique improves decision-making
• Exactly what kind of exercise helps you think on your feet
• What brain science says you should look for in a doctor, and

• How to get focused on your most unfocused days.
  Forget the tired advice of "get more sleep"--Sharp dives into more innovative, actionable tips that can make a difference in your daily routine. Best of all, many of them take five minutes or less. Whether you want to make fewer mistakes, support your partner through life's challenges, or simply learn faster, Sharp gives you the tools to do it all, without having to overhaul your entire lifestyle. It's time to take charge of your mental and emotional well-being with science. For anyone looking to be a little happier, a lot more productive, and far less stressed, Sharp offers the solutions you've been looking for.

  Zusammenfassung
  What if you were capable of more? What if you could be a little more empathetic and a lot more motivated? And what if your best days weren’t left up to chance but were something you could queue up at a moment’s notice? Most of us want to be a little happier, a little more focused, and a lot less stressed. And we’d rather not quit our jobs or join a monastery to do it. We want simple life hacks that are easy to fold into our everyday lives, and we want advice that goes beyond “Get a good night’s sleep.”

  Neuroscience labs are discovering a gold mine of practical advice that often debunks popular trends. Sharp will help put the lessons of neuroscience to work for people at work and at home. Readers will learn:

• how a special deep breathing technique improves decision-making
• exactly what kind of exercise helps you think on your feet
• what neuroscience says you should look for in a doctor, and

• how to get focused on your most unfocused days. There’s even a chapter on how to best support your partner through life’s stressful events. 

  Cognitive scientist Therese Huston is one of those rare specialists who makes neuroscience research easy to grasp and applicable to everyday life. In Neurosavvy, she offers the lessons of neuroscience in a format that’s easy to read and even easier to apply.