Focus, Daniel Goleman
Focus, Daniel Goleman
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Focus
The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Author: Daniel Goleman

Narrator: Daniel Goleman

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/08/2013

Synopsis

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. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not.

About Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Johannes Bertus on November 25, 2013

This book is all about how we ... Oh look! Some interesting facts about Apple's business strategy!......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

Daniel Goleman returned to Berkeley not long ago to speak to a large and enthusiastic audience at International House about the themes in his new book, Focus. Though he’d spent only his junior year as an undergraduate at Cal, his quips and asides quickly showed him to be fully in synch with Berkeley......more

Goodreads review by Brent on October 04, 2013

From Amazon: Having been a fan of Goleman since reading "Emotional Intelligence" in the 90's, I was excited to dive into "Focus". Goleman does not disappoint. He begins by outlining our general condition in society today as being inattentive. Our minds are in a constant state of overload and what pas......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on December 03, 2013

"Understandably, we focus on the people we value most. If you are poor, you depend on good relationships with friends and family whom you may need to turn to for help--say, when you need someone to look after your four-year-old until you get home from work. Those with few resources and a fragile per......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on May 06, 2014

How can a book entitled Focus be so unfocused? Goleman doesn't seem to have anyplace he's intentionally going with his latest book. Instead, he's just cobbling together a layman's interpretation of research on attention. He clusters his topics into broader categories, but even these categories don't......more

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