The Working Brain
Optimize Your Workday Performance
Realize a more productive workday by understanding and using your brain better.
As news outlets buzz over AI and supercomputers, many professionals feel doomed to fall behind. The most complex, adaptive, and impressive computing technology still ever known exists inside you: your human brain. But how well do you truly understand or use this amazing asset? Popular brain myths and corporate lore have probably held you back from fully leveraging this powerful technology, leaving your professional potential latent. By busting brain myths and relaying the latest insights, Dr. Brynn L. Winegard wants to help you use your brain better to unlock your full potential and realize your most productive self, day, and work life.
In The Working Brain, Dr. Brynn draws on her academic research in neuroscience, positive psychology, and corporate career to show you how to get more from your brain while asking less of your willpower. This science-backed practical guide is the missing manual for using your brain better at work and makes the latest brain insights accessible, tangible, and actionable. Understand how to tap into the brain’s natural rhythms and use Dr. Brynn’s MERIT Framework (Move, Eat, Rest, Interact, Think) to customize your workday for optimum productivity and performance. Discover the best times to work, focus, zone out, and rest, and collect the tips and techniques to fuel, excite, replenish, and stimulate your brain in vital ways at work.
With its practical tips, The Working Brain gives you the potential to be more productive, feel more motivated, and perform at your peak all workday long.
Reviews
“Finally, a user’s manual for your brain. The Working Brain is a must-read to improve your cognitive performance and mental wellness at work. Organizations should share this book to strengthen their employees’ health, wellness, and performance. Dr. Winegard masterfully distills the wisdom of mind-body and lifestyle medicine into a succinct framework. As a proponent of exercise medicine and culinary medicine, I believe the focus on movement and nutrition as levers for professional optimization makes this book essential reading. “Health care” starts with “self care,” and this comprehensive guide is indeed the missing professional manual for your own better wellness, happiness, and performance.”
“My friend and colleague Dr. Brynn has crafted a brilliant book on how to perform to your potential while optimizing your brain. She presents a powerful framework and clear path to better mental health and performance for her readers. Her recommendations are based in research and science, as well as her extensive expertise in the business world. I am thrilled that this book has made its way into the world!”
“A fantastic “brain blueprint” filled with practical tips, tricks, and evidence-based strategies designed to enhance cognition and improve performance at work and in life. Dr. Winegard’s MERIT framework (how you move, eat, rest, interact, and think) beautifully encapsulates the pillars and practices of lifestyle medicine as they pertain to cognitive health. A must-read for any professional looking to optimize their health, performance, and longevity.”
24.95 CAD • 19.95 USD
Published 12/03/2024
Paperback