Power Up Your Mind: Learn faster, work smarter

GETTING READING TO LEARN—IN A NUTSHELL

54 Power Up Your Mind

YOU HAVE LEARNED:

✔how to check your own emotional

readiness

✔about the relationship between curiosity

and learning

✔how to read your moods

✔about the impact of stress on performance

✔about different kinds of emotional needs

✔about the importance of self-esteem and

some ways of raising it

✔about the concept of learned optimism

and how to become more optimistic

✔about the relationship between physical

fitness and the mind

✔about a range of emotional responses

✔how to think about values

KEY IDEAS

Hierarchy of needs

Curiosity

Self-esteem

Cognitive therapy

NLP

Learned optimism

Brain gym

Emotional intelligence

Spiritual intelligence

KEY TECHNIQUES/

APPROACHES

Employee development

Being honest with yourself

Understanding how to deal

with what goes wrong

Using the past tense rather

than generalizations

Staying physically fit

Using a mood meter

Keeping a feelings diary

Understanding your values