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    How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World.
    How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World.
    How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World.
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    How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World.

    By Theo Compernolle

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    Your most important tool to be successful is your brain. What do you know about your brain that is of practical help every day to get the best out of it? Most people, even highly educated professionals, do not know anything about their brain and what they know is often not correct and not useful.
    Even without this knowledge about their brain, more and more people discover that the way they use their computers and especially their smartphones does not improve, but undermines their intellectual productivity and even their health. Quite a few then worry that there is something wrong with themselves, since everybody else seems to have no problem interacting all the time with their smartphones and with multitasking.
    Hundreds of research publications, however, support this idea that the way people use their great technology indeed undermines their intellectual work, instead of enhancing it. This research also clearly demonstrates that this is true for everybody who is always connected and multitasking.
    This book is a very short and crisp version of the comprehensive book “BrainChains. Discover your brain and unleash its full potential in a hyperconnected world”.
    “BrainChains” is about how to fully develop the synergy between your brilliant brain and your amazing Information and Communication Technology (ICT), computers in general and smartphones in particular, to become more intellectually productive.
    Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the human brain, you will get the best from your brain and your technology and become measurably more productive, more creative, in less time and with less stress.
    When “BrainChains” became a bestseller, Dr. Compernolle discovered an interesting paradox. The people who need “BrainChains” the most to become more efficient, do not have the time to read a comprehensive book, to understand how to develop an optimal synergy between their brain and their ICT, to become more efficient, productive and creative.
    Therefore, he wrote this brief “directions for use” for your brain, with only 50 pages of 250 words, one subject per page, to explain the basic knowledge about the brain that you need to know to understand the five BrainChains and the five BrainChain-breakers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheo Compernolle
    Release dateJan 27, 2017
    ISBN9789082205862
    How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World.
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    Theo Compernolle

    Prof Dr Theo Compernolle MD. PhD. tis an independent international consultant, executive (team)coach, trainer and key-note speaker. He consults, teaches and coaches professionals, managers and executives in a wide range of (multi)national companies, professional services firms and training institutions in many different cultures and countries. He holds these sessions in English, Dutch and French. He is an adjunct professor at the CEDEP European Centre for Executive Development. He teaches and coaches in the executive programs of business schools like INSEAD in France and TIASNIMBAS in the Netherlands. He has held the positions of Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development at the Solvay Business School, Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, visiting professor at several business schools and Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam. As a medical doctor, neuro-psychiatrist, psychotherapist and business consultant, Theo studies research from very different fields including medicine, biology, psychology, neurology, physiology and management. He then burns the midnight oil to integrate this information into a coherent whole and to find simple ways to pass on this knowledge, in a memorable way, to all kinds of professionals. His clients often call his sessions "Science made simple and useful". Theo was first drawn into the world of business after the publication of his PhD about stress caused quite a stir in the media. Since then he has become an expert on the emotional and relational aspects of leadership and enhancing the resilience of executives, executive teams, organizations and families with a business, especially in times of conflict, stress and change. He has published several non-fiction books and more than a hundred scientific articles. Three of his books ao. "STRESS: FRIEND AND FOE. Vital Stress Management at work and in the family" became bestsellers and long-sellers. He is just finished his latest book "'BRAINCHAINS. Discover your brain to unleash your performance in a hyperconnected multitasking world." Available from Amazon.com, Createspace https://www.createspace.com/4731062 or a bookshop near you. He has also been the director of several inpatient and outpatient departments. Theo gained a Ph.D. on his research into stress from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He is certified as a psychotherapist and as medical specialist in neuropsychiat...

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      How to Unchain Your Brain. In a Hyper-connected Multitasking World. - Theo Compernolle

      HOW TO UNCHAIN

      YOUR BRAIN

      Unleash the full potential of your brain in a hyperconnected multitasking world

      A concise version of the bestseller BrainChains

      Prof Dr Theo Compernolle

      Compublications

      2016

      Copyright © 2017 Theo Compernolle and Compublications

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-9-08-220586-2

      Illustrations: Huw Aaron (contact@huwaaron.com)

      Cartoon on page 111 is an idea of Serge Diekstra

      More Information: www.brainchains.info

      Please send your feedback, comments, edits or questions to comments@brainchains.info

      Abbreviations:

      ICT: Information and Communication Technology. The hardware and software you use to find and distribute information such as your smartphone, tablet, computer, email, browser, social media etc.

      AbC: Always being connected (AbC) to the internet, constantly checking emails, texts, news, social media, voice mails via your phone, your tablet, your computer, etc.

      Readers’ comments about BrainChains

      Stunning work, aggregating the best and newest research to create a User Manual for Your Brain! Whether all the new tech is leveraged as a positive tool or allowed to seduce us into numb- and dumbness is a fine line, and Theo delineates that with brilliance. Read at your peril.

      David Allen

      Excellent book on productivity. If you have read David Allen's Getting Things Done this book will be beneficial to comprehend the whole system and why we do what we do. Theo Compernolle's work is based on scientific research and backs up his arguments in style. If there is one thing you should take from BrainChains Do not use your phone while driving :-)

      Addo General Mrch

      I'm so glad I got my hands on this book. Forget all the other business books, tips and theories which everybody else uses, THIS is the book that will separate you away from the herd and should be read before anything else. This book will be kept on my desk instead of my bookshelf, as a constant reminder.

      NoName

      In a few words: an amazing book. Loved reading it. The author knows very well how to explain this matter in an open end very comprehensible way. I look at my laptop in a different way now. Must read!

      4bozzza

      This is one of those books that do have impact on your habits … at least for me it did and that is I think the biggest value a book can have…

      Joanne

      … an easy to read page turner… which I feel everyone in the connected world should read.

      Dave Scott, President

      Top experience. Extended documentation.Accessible reading of scientific topics. Really professional. Appreciate the style and art of communication of the author. Congratulations. Excellent buy and investment.

      Jean-Paul Antonus

      … a compelling, meticulously researched, and cleverly illustrated case against the twin tyrannies of hyperconnectivity and multitasking… also shows how to free ourselves from them

      Nélida and Jorge Colapinto

      THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,

      For, put them side by side,

      The one the other will include

      With ease, and you beside.

      The brain is deeper than the sea,

      For, hold them, blue to blue,

      The one the other will absorb,

      As sponges, buckets do.

      Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

      There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time…. The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.

      Lord Chesterfield April (1694-1773)

      It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.

      Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

      So a great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is interrupted and disturbed, its attention distracted and drawn off from the matter in hand; for its superiority depends upon its power of concentration — of bringing all its strength to bear upon one theme, in the same way as a concave mirror collects into one point all the rays of light that strike upon it.

      Arthur Schopenhauer: On Noise. 1851

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Readers’ comments about BrainChains

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      INTRODUCTION

      YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON THE SYNERGY BETWEEN YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR TECHNOLOGY

      YOU NEED BASIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR BRAIN TO GET THE BEST OUT OF IT AND YOUR ICT

      FIVE BRAINCHAINS

      FIVE BRAINCHAIN-BREAKERS

      CONCLUSION

      FURTHER READING

      REFERENCES

      COMMENTS, FEEDBACK AND QUESTIONS

      MORE FEEDBACK FROM READERS OF BRAINCHAINS

      YOUR NOTES

      About the Author

      Prof Dr Theo Compernolle MD., PhD. has held the positions of Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development at the Solvay Business School, Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, Visiting Professor at several business schools and Professor at the Free University

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