Mental fitness
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This book discusses not only effective behaviour in the professional environment, but also the challenges of work-private life balance that many upcoming managers face. It offers credible ways of coping. It has a sound blend of insights from therapy and practical business advice for those who have to cope with everyday paradox style management decisions.
This book is not promoting itself boastingly like in comparison the "multiple habits" series does. Instead, it maintains a practical style and the advices can easily be selected for the applicable situation.
No guru-style talk, just plain advice. That's why in my practice I find this book helpful for developing professionals and managers. Self-esteem, self confidence, self organization: that is the kind of questions this book will answer.
But, if you consider yourself wise beyond learning, then don't try this book. Buy a mirror instead ;-)
Peter Ambagtsheer
Business Psychologist of Mentaspex
The Netherlands
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Practical and complete
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This is a complete users manual for the brain. Thought is too linked to personality to make it easy for us to evaluate what we do and how we think.
The writers are objective and very methodical, taking the reader through common sense and less obvious steps. The chapters are well divided and enable reference back to specific areas of interest. For example, although interesting, the chapters on addiction were not relevant to me, while time manaement was; the sectioning of the book enables me to refer to Time Management as a topic.
There are lots of points here that may seem obvious but I don't see that as a point of criticism. I would rather this than other points and methods of management were left out. We do tend to ignore the obvious sometimes anyway.
The book is unemotional, and not an inspiring, lifting book to change your life. This isn't a criticism, but an observation. You can get that in other books. This is a mechanic's manual.
Another good point is that this deals with a range of functions of the brain. For example, depression may be a reason for you reading the book, but such is the application, those of us not suffering from it can benefit from the knowledge of cognitive therapy. Further, topics range from illnesses such as depression to practical tips for normal healthy relationships and managing work committments and solving problems.
Many of us who already use our minds well don't fully see how we do this. The book stands outside and objectively shows us how we do it and what else we can do. In that, it's a winner.
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It got me a new job!
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I can't remember why my wife bought me this book now but after reading it I changed in so many ways (for the better) that I managed to free up extra time for the things that are important to me, get over my fear of flying but more importantly gave me the confidence to get a new job. I can't rate this book enough for everyone - if you think it's not for you then read it and make your decision afterwards!
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UMMM help????
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Ok Firts off all i was actually fooled by the title and the review for this book, i did read it but it presents no constructive arguments, rather dribbles rubbish that is common information. Forexample stress effects memory well i mean duh! In summary i think this book misses the point, rather then actually giving the reader task on how to improve memory contructively, it prefers to be vauge and aims to do too much and achieves very little. Waste of money i feel :(
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Conquering stress,depression&time management all in one book
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I've been hunting for a book for ages to try and free up some time. A stressful job and studying via distance learning does not leave much spare time and can result in me becoming very stressed. The book details loads of tips to try and help life in general and has chapters on specifics such as anxiety, over/under eating, effective studying, alcohol etc. It is proving to be a must, you wonder how you coped beforehand. I would recommend this book to anyone prepared to spend a few minutes each day thinking about different ways of approaching situations to improve your life in general. It's well worth the money and lends itself to be either read through completely or just dipped into chapters as necessary. A great deal better than lots of other self help books as it's easy to apply and memorable.
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