Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind,Used

Harness your minds innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productivein the boardroom, living room, or classroom.Named one of Coastal Livings Best Books for the Beach This SummerTo finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on todo lists, calendar reminders, noiseblocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrateeven though these tactics often fail to substantially improve productivity. Drawing on the latest brain research, compelling stories from his psychological practice, and colorful examples of counterintuitive success from sports, business, education, and the arts, neuroscientist Srini Pillay, M.D., challenges traditional ideas about productivity, revealing the lasting, positive benefits of adding deliberate and regular unfocus to your repertoire. A fascinating tour through brain wavelengths and rhythm, mindsets, and mental relaxation, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try demonstrates how specific kinds of planned unfocus stimulate cognitive calmness, jumpstart productivity, enhance innovation, inspire creativity, improve longterm memory, and, of course, help you stay on target.Tinkering with ideas and with things releases your mind to wander from a state of stuckness into a possibility frame of mind, triggering neural connections and new insights.Dabbling in a new endeavorwhether a hobby or fantasydisrupts your habitual and reactive thinking, helping you find new solutions to old problems.Doodling can help you tap into another brain frequency to remove obstacles and create opportunities and inspiration.With techniques for training the brain to unfocus, concepts for scheduling busy lives, and ideas for controlling this new cognitivetoggling capability, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try will change how you think about daydreaming, relaxing, leaving work unfinished, and even multitasking. What youll discover is a greater freedom, a deeper intelligence, and a more profound joy in your life.Praise for Tinker Dabble Doodle TryPillays effortless writing style, combined with an excellent balance of popular psychology and selfhelp, makes this a helpful read for those who enjoy a light dive into psychology with practical applications.Library JournalPillay cites an intriguing range of brain studies to support his argument, and his case studies of individuals with whom he has worked provide useful insights.Kirkus ReviewsDr. Srini Pillay offers a brilliant, deeply researched, and even more deeply imagined blueprint for using ones full mental armamentarium, conscious, unconscious, and all the undiscovered rest! A fantastic book!Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., coauthor of Delivered from DistractionDr. Pillays new book will help you create a new, fun, more playful destiny and unlock your brains inner potential.Daniel G. Amen, M.D., coauthor of The Brain Warriors WayThis book not only gives you license to step off the hamster wheel of focus, focus, focus, but it will show you how to strategically and productively do so.JJ Virgin, author of JJ Virgins Sugar Impact DietThis brilliant book shows how to manipulate your brain to alternate between intense concentration and deliberate mindwandering.Mark Robert Waldman, coauthor of How God Changes Your Brain