Project Description

Subtitle: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Successbook cover the winners brain

By: Jeff Brown and Mark Penske

Notes:

  • Winners work harder than other people.
  • Winners take charge of their brains adaptability.
  • Rohdan failed to get into art school three times, before becoming the best artist in the world.
  • Brain power quiz says I’m well developed and now I just need to fine tune them.
  • Great tools:
    • Goal laser: being able to see exactly what you want to achieve and going after it.
    • Effort accelerator: the tool that allows someone to push through obstacles to get to your goal.
    • Talent meter: the ability to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are and how to develop it.
  • Win Factors:
    • Self awareness:
      • How you related to the world and it to you.
      • Helps you to understand your talents and what to do.
      • When you narrow the gap between your public and private self, you become more of a genuien person and people trust you better.
      • To improve the way you read non-verbal ques, watch the body language of actors in a movie with no volume to see if you can capture the understanding. Then watch with volume to see if you understood.
      • Stability in thoughts lead to success and longterm planning.
      • Those who remain in the dark about their weaknesses, are doomed for failure.
    • Motivation:
      • Goal oriented:
      • Personal drive:
      • The power to drive through boring tasks is a trait of the winners brain.
      • To generate motivation, make small tweaks in your routine. Eat somewhere different.
      • Focus on each of the tasks that go into reaching a goal to drive your motivation.
      • Low quality is when money is the only reward for doing something.
        • It also leads to lower creativity. Therefore, bonuses generally don’t work.
        • Money drives people to complete tasks that are boring. (extrinsic rewards).
        • Extrinsic rewards help to get things going at first, but that can reverse if intrinsic rewards aren’t enough.
      • To avoid procrastination, list concrete tasks in detail. Broad tasks result in procrastination.
        • Start with a series of small tacks to get the ball rolling.
    • Focus:
      • Winners have the ability to focus on the most important details.
      • Implies withdrawing from one things to focus on others.
      • Average worker takes 30 mins to get back to their original tasks.
      • Ways to get back on focus:
        • Remind yourself that you are off task.
        • Compete to the original task.
        • Eliminate factors that derail attention.
        • Choose a starting point and make a physical action that gets you back on course. Check mark.
        • Pay attention to small details you may not ordinarily notice.
      • Reinvest focus: notice the small details to get back to the task.
      • Meditation training helps to make focus a lot better.
      • Video games have a positive impact on attention control.
      • The more things you can switch to autopilot, the more you can focus on the task as hand.
        • To get to autopilot, you have practice a lot.
      • Practice individual parts of the skill before doing the whole thing at once.
        • Use all of your senses to make the experience real.
      • To get organized and focused:
        • Make a detailed list of the activities that are necessary.
        • Give each task an A,B,C ranking in importance.
          • A for tasks that need to be completed in a day, B for a week, C for a month.
        • Rank each A, B, C task by time needed.
        • Refresh each week.
      • Loose and relaxed people to better at whack-a-mole.
        • Gaze at the center of the playing surface.
        • Don’t move head at all, but follow with eyes.
        • Return mallett to center after each time.
      • Boredom is where your abilities exceed the challenge. There is no reward for excelling.
        • Therefore, seek out challenges.
    • Emotional balance:
      • Winner brains are experts at channeling emotions.
      • Instead of asking, what are you feeling, instead of what are you thinking.
      • Read and experience things from the opposite view of yours.
      • You can literally choose happiness. It correlates with workplace success.
      • Reframing helps a person to be more calm. AKA, take a deep breadth.
      • Try bookending. When something traumatic happens,
    • Memory:
      • The ability to predict is what makes memory better.
      • To get memory working better, do unique things at least once a week.
      • To keep information better, attach it to something meaningful and already in your memory.
      • Repetition is also important for things that are routinized.
      • It doesn’t have to be real in order to be relevant.
      • Journey technique to increase memory:
        • Think of a familiar journey.
        • Place pictures along the path that represent things you are trying to memorize.
        • Go on the mental journey and pick up everything.
        • Even numbers are turn into pictures: 1. is a candle, 2 is a snake.
      • Really emotional outcomes can help with memory.
        • Especially in fearful and stressful moments.
      • Practice makes perfect memory.
      • Gesturing makes memories more durable.
    • Resilience
      • Bouncing back into success.
      • Winners reframe failures when things don’t go as planned.
      • Bad is when you blame everything on luck. Better to have an active roll in your fate.
      • Successful people are able to slow down after a mistake to recollect themselves.
        • Determine the source of the mistake, learn from it, and put it in the past.
      • When getting over something, ask yourself what you think your role model would do.
      • “Fall down seven times. Get up eight.” Marines.
      • Thomas Edison: “Many of life’s failures are with men who didn’t know how close they were to success when they gave up.”
      • Long term stress and depression causes the brain to shrink.
      • There is a relationship between math and musical ability.
    • Adaptability
      • Yoga and meditation help to rewire their brains to deal with things better.
    • Brain Care:
      • Physical care, eating right, and sleeping right.
      • Exercise has such a big impact on the brain, that it’s incredible important. Tons of findings.
        • Adds oxygen to the brain that helps utilize food ingredients.
        • Three times a week is good enough. Marathons aren’t needed.
        • Enjoying hobbies also help.
          • Working for life in your passion also has an impact on this.
        • It’s the only thing that actually improves brain operations hands down.
      • Food that helps the brain to work better:
        • Fish and nuts.
        • Apples and berries also helped.
      • Must sleep. Poor sleep affects the brain.
        • Studies say you can retain stuff for longer if you immediately go to sleep after learning it.
        • Going to sleep with a difficult problem can sometimes pop the solution into your head first thing.
        • Lowering body temperate triggers a bodies desire to sleep. Warm environments do the opposite.
          • Take a cool shower before sleeping.
        • Sleeping pills put you to sleep, but don’t probide the benefits of real sleep.
        • Meditation is one of the best ways to get to sleep. 30 mins at most.