Letter from Lhasa, number 227. (Rock 2009): Your Brain at Work. Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Rock, D., Your Brain at Work. Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, HarperCollins e-books, 2009.
(Rock 2009).
David Rock
It is important prioritize prioritizing. This is done by visualization, visualizing images, metaphors, stories etc. ...Simplifying, approximating and focusing on the essential elements of an idea. ...Selecting what to do and what not to do. ...Avoid distractions, both external and internal. ...Change is hard. The power for changing is in focus.
The book is more complex than these simple sketches. It is structured around a narration on two imaginary personages and each short story is used for focusing on behavioural problems and possible solutions.
I’d like to suggest that, for combining productivity and creativity [which is at the base of a real problem-solving], one should combine defocusing (or multiple focusing) and focusing, in a constant interaction. Concentration on a question or task should not be impoverished suppressing a rich and multiple thinking (what is different from a wondering inconclusiveness), if one is capable of it.
Rock, D., Your Brain at Work. Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long, HarperCollins e-books, 2009.
