Your Brain At Work, Revised And Updated (Strategies For Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, And Working Smarter All Day Long)

Your Brain At Work, Revised And Updated (Strategies For Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, And Working Smarter All Day Long)

A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday-revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.In Your Brain at Work,