Outsmart Your Brain: How to Master Your Mind When Emotions Take the Wheel - Paperback

by Marcia Reynolds (Author)

"Change your thoughts, change your behavior" has long been the mantra for the personal growth movement. Yet no matter how hard you try, thereare times you can't to stop the mental chatter that leads to needless arguing, tension, frustration, and eventually a numbing process that restricts access to your joy and passion.Why can't you stop the noise? You are under the spell of your over-protective brain. To feel more energy, stimulate creativity, strengthen relationships, and live healthier, more joyful lives, you have to be smarter than your brain. Once you know how your brain works, you can consciously choose how you want to feel and act. Knowing how to shift your emotional states at will is the most important factor in achieving success and happiness.Outsmart Your Brain is full of exercises, examples and guidelines that teach you how to tap into your hidden mental powers to make better decisions and establish powerful connections with others. Readers from around the world have shared their success based on the teachings in Outsmart Your Brain.Read this book to...* Become emotionally "self-aware"* Make good choices when consumed by emotions* Understand what triggers the emotions of others* Improve leadership, coaching, and conflict-resolution skills* Use insight and empathy to inspire engagement, creativity, and results

Author Biography

Dr. Marcia Reynolds is the expert organizations call on to breathe life into their connections, conversations, and cultures. She has trained, spoken at conferences, and coached leaders in 36 countries and reached over 100K people worldwide. She is the author of 3 books including her bestseller, The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs. Her doctorate is in Organization Psychology and she continues to research transformational leadership to help startups and established Fortune 500 firms prosper in today's chaotic, unpredictable world.