Summary of Daniel Goleman's Focus

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 John Berger, house detective, is constantly watching shoppers in a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He is focus embodied. His gaze roams like a spotlight. He is panoramic awareness alternating with constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal.

#2 Attention is a little-known and underappreciated mental asset. It is the beam of awareness that guides our thoughts and actions. It is vital for how we navigate life, and it is developed through cognitive science studies and practical applications.

#3 The indifference of that mother and the silence among the sisters are symptoms of how technology captures our attention and disrupts our connections. In 2006, the word pizzled entered our lexicon to describe the feeling people had when the person they were with whipped out a BlackBerry and started talking to someone else.

#4 The eight cognitive skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills. The eight mental skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669353966

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Insights on Daniel Goleman's Focus

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

John Berger, house detective, is constantly watching shoppers in a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. He is focus embodied. His gaze roams like a spotlight. He is panoramic awareness alternating with constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal.

#2

Attention is a little-known and underappreciated mental asset. It is the beam of awareness that guides our thoughts and actions. It is vital for how we navigate life, and it is developed through cognitive science studies and practical applications.

#3

The indifference of that mother and the silence among the sisters are symptoms of how technology captures our attention and disrupts our connections. In 2006, the word pizzled entered our lexicon to describe the feeling people had when the person they were with whipped out a BlackBerry and started talking to someone else.

#4

The eight cognitive skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills. The eight mental skills are attention, memory, problem solving, decision making, spatial reasoning, language, and social skills.

#5

The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman called an away gesture, which tells another person that we are not interested in what’s going on here and now.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

There are two types of distractions: sensory and emotional. The former is easy to avoid, while the latter is difficult. The more your attention is disrupted, the worse you will perform.

#2

The ability to stay focused on