Rebooting Your Brain Using Motivational Intelligence to Adjust Your Mindset, Reach Your Goals, and Realize Unlimited Success

by Naylor, David

• ISBN13: 9781394157853
• ISBN10: 1394157851
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781394157860
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-15
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Learn—and teach others—to embrace change and collaboration

In Rebooting Your Brain: Using Motivational Intelligence to Adjust Your Mindset, Reach Your Goals, and Realize Unlimited Success, leadership development and sales expert, David Naylor delivers an incisive exploration of why people struggle and how to escape the shackles that hold individuals and organizations back. Leveraging the latest insights of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology, the book presents an easy to leverage framework that allows people to understand the exact steps necessary to let go the limiting beliefs and perspectives that create unhappiness, dissatisfaction and mediocrity.

Relying on the author’s unique and effective 2logical motivational intelligence-based solutions, readers will discover how to build greater success in both their career and personal life.

Readers will also find:

• Explorations of what holds people back and how to remove those obstacles
• Strategies for promoting and encouraging accountability, open-mindedness, listening, reflection, engagement, and drive
• Techniques for reducing or eliminating risk aversion, closed-mindedness, negative attitudes, fear and instant gratification bias

An essential and practical book perfect for team leaders, managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Rebooting Your Brain is the evidence- and cognitive science-based resource that leaders everywhere have been waiting for.

Author Biography

DAVID NAYLOR is the Executive Vice President of Global Learning and Development for 2logical, a trusted advisor and strategic consultant to CEOs and executive leadership teams around the world. He has worked with leaders at American Express, AXA Financial, General Electric, Time Warner, and other globally recognized firms.

Table of Contents

Preface 4

Part 1: When Everything Changed 4

Chapter 1: My Reboot 4

Chapter 2: Doing Your Own Reboot 14

Chapter 3: The Brain You Were Born With 16

Chapter 4: What Goes Wrong with Our Brain and Why? 21

Chapter 5: Modern Life with Our Ancient Mind 34

Part 2: Becoming the New You: Your Mental Reboot 39

Chapter 6: For Your Reboot: The Power of Choice Is Your Most Important Asset 40

Chapter 7: Rebooting Your Control of You 46

Chapter 8: Rebooting Your Limitless Ability to Learn 60

Chapter 9: Rebooting Your Thought Process 71

Part 3: Rebooting Your Happiness and Letting Go of Limiting Perceptions 84

Chapter 10: To Find Happiness, You Must “Unbecome” 85

Chapter 11: Myth: Some People have “It,” but You Don’t 91

Chapter 12: Myth: Circumstances Control Your Destiny 102

Chapter 13: Myth: There Is Always a Shortcut 108

Chapter 14: Myth: To Succeed You Need to be Lucky 115

Chapter 15: Myth: Success Happens Overnight 123

Chapter 16: Super Myth: Failure Should Be Avoided 130

Chapter 17: Super Myth: Feedback Can Be Negative 136

Chapter 18: Super Myth: You Should Be Afraid of Fear 141

Part 4: Finding Your Peace of Mind & Defining the Rebooted You 151

Chapter 19: Finding Peace in Your Time 151

Chapter 20: Finding Peace Through Love 166

Chapter 21: Redefining the Rebooted You 174

Appendix: Rebooting Your Beliefs and Perspective Affirmation Plan 186

About the Author 193