Summary of Friederike Fabritius & Hans W. Hagemann's The Leading Brain

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#1 In 1963, astronaut Gordo Cooper was scheduled to be the sixth American to venture into outer space. He was strapped into a chair and prepared to be launched into space. However, he was taking a nap.

#2 Pasteur, the man who discovered bacteria, was a great example of how tenacity and patience are the keys to success. He never left anything to chance, and he was well aware of the secret of his success: his tenacity.

#3 Peak performance is the level of excellence that we commonly refer to as being on top of our game. It is the result of a masterful combination of temperament and mindset.

#4 The sweet spot is the place where the ball responds in the best possible way. We all strive to find our sweet spot of performance, where we’re at our most productive and effective. But what is it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822516571

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In 1963, astronaut Gordo Cooper was scheduled to be the sixth American to venture into outer space. He was strapped into a chair and prepared to be launched into space. However, he was taking a nap.

#2

Pasteur, the man who discovered bacteria, was a great example of how tenacity and patience are the keys to success. He never left anything to chance, and he was well aware of the secret of his success: his tenacity.

#3

Peak performance is the level of excellence that we commonly refer to as being on top of our game. It is the result of a masterful combination of temperament and mindset.

#4

The sweet spot is the place where the ball responds in the best possible way. We all strive to find our sweet spot of performance, where we’re at our most productive and effective. But what is it.

#5

The Inverted U is a graph that illustrates the relationship between arousal and performance. Peak performance comes at the top of the graph, where the level of arousal is sufficient to provide optimal focus and attention. Without adequate arousal, we’re likely to feel bored or apathetic.

#6

There are about 1 trillion nerve cells in your brain, each of which measures about one-hundredth of a millimeter. They are tightly packed inside your brain, but their tentacles don’t physically connect. They maintain microscopic gaps called synapses and employ chemical messengers called neurotransmitters to cross the remaining distance.

#7

The nerves that send signals from one neuron to another are called axons, and each neuron comes with only one. However, it has plenty of dendrites, which are neuronal receivers. The dendrites don’t physically connect, which allows them to create new circuitry.

#8

Dopamine, as one journalist suggests, has become the Kim Kardashian of neurotransmitters for its involvement in pleasure, addiction, and reward. It is involved in your ability to update information in memory and focus on the task at hand.

#9

Noradrenaline, or norepinephrine, is the rush we get when we bungee jump or when we react in surprise to the sudden lunge of a neighbor’s friendly dog. It is released when we push ourselves to perform a difficult task better, faster, or with fewer resources.

#10

The third neurochemical that makes up Peak Performance is acetylcholine, which is found in abundance in a special group of human beings: babies. Babies release acetylcholine without even trying, and adults are not so lucky. We must manually turn on the acetylcholine mechanism after the critical period of neuroplasticity is over.

#11

The inverted U shape of the performance curve is a clear and concise explanation of how performance works. However, it doesn’t have any units. How do you measure arousal. In inches. In ergs. In Scoville units.

#12

The definition of spicy in a Thai restaurant is like the definition of arousal in a Yerkes-Dodson graph. Some of us are right-side performers, while others are left-side performers or somewhere in