David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity. Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman. In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world. Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus.
The author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence returns with a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Goleman analyzes attention research as a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Sunni Brown - Visual Notetaking, Gamestorming. Mind Matters. Meditation: It’s Not What You Think. Do you have family, friends, colleagues who say they just can’t meditate? Mind and Life’s resident neuroscientist Wendy Hasenkamp explores the popular misconceptions surrounding meditation, and the reasons to keep trying. When I explain to someone that I’m involved in research on meditation, it’s not uncommon for me to hear, “Oh, meditation—I tried that. I couldn’t do it.” This response brings up a mix of emotions in me that is equal parts sadness and frustration, with a heaping dose of motivation on top. Sadness because people have experienced meditation in a negative light and come to associate it with a sense of failure.
If you do a quick online image search on meditation, what you’ll find is a popular depiction: people sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, seemingly serene and free of thoughts, some even with beams of light shooting out of their heads. The struggle with meditation typically arises because our goals are misplaced. What’s all the hype about? But don’t take my word for it. Www.makingsenseofmentalhealth.org/articles/mindfulyoga.pdf.
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