商品簡介
In The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane offered a groundbreaking approach to becoming more charismatic. Now she teams up with Judah Pollack to reveal how anyone can train their mind to induce breakthrough insights.
The idea for Siri came to designer Adam Cheyer as he woke up from a nap. Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when his eureka moment hit; Archimedes was getting into a bath. Similar accidental breakthroughs have recurred throughout history, from Louis Pasteur to Mahatma Gandi to the development of penicillin and the pacemaker.
But there's a hidden pattern to all these seemingly random breakthrough ideas. Thanks to recent neuroscience discoveries, we can now explain them--and also induce them through a series of specific practices. This book is a highly practical guide to the skills that will turn our brains into idea machines.
Cabane and Pollack identify a step-by-step process for accessing the part of the brain that produces breakthroughs (the Default Mode Network or DMN) and systematically removing internal blocks. Their tactics range from simple to zany, such as:
·Imagine an alternate universe where gravity doesn't exist, and the social and legal rules that govern it.
·Map Disney's Pocahontas story onto James Cameron's Avatar.
·Rid yourself of imposter syndrome through mental exercises.
·Literally change your perspective by climbing a tree.
·Stimulate your DMN by watching a foreign film without subtitles.
By trying the exercises in this book, readers will emerge with a powerful new capacity for breakthrough thinking.
作者簡介
Olivia Fox Cabane, author of The Charisma Myth, has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and MIT. As an executive coach to Fortune 500 leaders, her many clients have included Google, Deloitte, and Citigroup. She contributes regularly to Forbes and has been featured in many other publications.
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Judah Pollack is a writer, speaker and coach specializing in the art of leadership. He is currently pioneering the Starfish Program with the US Army's TRADOC Command, and leads programs for Special Forces as well as civilian clients such as Google and The New York Times. He has lectured at Stanford and Berkeley.
