Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

by Daniel Goleman
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

by Daniel Goleman

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062114860
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/08/2013
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

1 The Subtle Faculty 1

Part I The Anatomy of Attention

2 Basics 13

3 Attention Top and Bottom 24

4 The Value of a Mind Adrift 39

5 Finding Balance 47

Part II Self-Awareness

6 The Inner Rudder 61

7 Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us 68

8 A Recipe for Self-Control 76

Part III Reading Others

9 The Woman Who Knew Too Much 93

10 The Empathy Triad 98

11 Social Sensitivity 116

Part IV The Bigger Context

12 Patterns, Systems, and Messes 129

13 System Blindness 136

14 Distant Threats 146

Part V Smart Practice

15 The Myth of 10,000 Hours 161

16 Brains on Games 176

17 Breathing Buddies 186

Part VI The Well-Focused Leader

18 How Leaders Direct Attention 209

19 The Leader's Triple Focus 221

20 What Makes a Leader? 233

Part VII The Big Picture

21 Leading for the Long Future 249

Acknowledgments 259

Resources 261

Notes 266

Index 295

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