The 5 Best Books for Brain & Concentration: Dynagrams & Dialogical Thinking {Reading Tip}

Dynagrams are dynamic thinking aids that succeed in visualizing topics in a few steps and creating clarity. 5 books for better thinking and focusing.

Dynagrams - thinking in stereo

The title of the book “Dynagrams” may be a bit misleading at first. This is not (only) about Business-Charts. The book is based on the conviction that only then can we fully exploit our intellectual potential.

To do this, as many areas of our brain as possible must be active when thinking and working. Objective is to find new insights, ideas or solutions and make them visible. For yourself or in a group.

Exploit the spiritual potential

In concrete terms, this means that Dynagrams combines drawing and speaking. Only then does thinking in stereo, as the authors call it, occur. Together new ways find about one Problem discuss or explore opportunities:

The drawing, listening and speaking makes sure that several areas of the brain work simultaneously. New ideas and points of view develop. And this process is stimulated by the diagrams above.

Complex issues - manageable and arguable

The diagrams clarify the facts for all participants. Drawing also contributes positively to the culture of conversation. Instead of going straight to the other person's point of view criticize, can be referred to the elements of the diagram. It will then be improved together.

The use of the diagrams is shown in the main part of the book in the form of case studies in practical use. Even well-known forms such as a matrix are reported in a well-founded and stimulating manner. However, the reader also sees lesser-known types such as the Venn, Canvas or Mintzberg diagrams in practical use. The book could become an absolute insider tip. The reader learns how to properly use a variety of diagram forms, some of which are little known, in order to use their potential in creative development or Solution to exploit problems.

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Happiness and success thanks to Limbi

The new book by bestselling author Werner Tiki Kuestenmacher (Simplify your life) is here: “Limbi – The path to happiness leads through Brain" goes Ask nach wie: Why does the couch turn into a magnet when we were about to go jogging? Why can't the to-do list just be our friend? The author has the answer in “Limbi” our limbic System found.

First off the good news: Knowing how Limbi is ticking loses the couch (a bit) from her strong magnetic appeal, and the to-do list can still become a friend. Küstenmacher's book offers an entertaining journey through the neuropsychological depths of life and with specific instructions for a limb-friendly life in the river with ourselves.

Drive- and emotion-driven

Bestselling author, caricaturist and business professional Werner Tiki Coastmaker goes with his book “Limbi” in search of the ultimate formula of happiness and finds it in the brain.

She is with everyone People present from birth – the Rede is from the limbic system. The part of the brain that emotions and drives behavior that “works fantastically quickly, but judges only lazily”.

Luck formula in the brain

In short: The part in Head, who decides in a fraction of a second what is pleasing and what is disgusting. Being able to take countermeasures here if necessary is the basis of the happiness formula, according to Küstenmacher.

The author does not have a neurological treatise in the Sinn. Quite the contrary: he is concerned with one person light consumable practical guide that shows in almost all situations in life how emotions affect us Behavior control, influence thoughts and feelings and how the seemingly rigid construct of stimulus and reaction can be interrupted.

Limbi leads through the book (and life)

For this he sends Limbi into the field, a cute little caricature that symbolizes your own emotions and also your inner ones Schweinehund. Limbi is the protagonist of the book, whom the reader gets to know sometimes as a partner on their own side, sometimes as an opponent.

Coastmaker quickly makes it clear that Limbi always has a hand in things, 24 hours a day. No matter whether it's about career, diets, love, friendships, Things to Learn or going to sleep – the inner one secretly reports voice always speaking.

Not always the best guide

And not always is the soft appeal from the subconscious mind the best guide. The author explains how to unmask Limbi, de-value it if necessary, or completely unlink it.

For example, when overeating: simply the “I-contract-what-impulse (= Limbi) that“ fills-how-many-plates-what-I-have-eaten-insight ”(= rational view of the cerebral cortex ) and see how it ends.

Love: back to memory

Limbi is by no means just a hedonistic tormentor. In love, he plays all his talents. For example, when it comes to rekindle the fallen passion. And recommends: Back to the memory, back to the places, to the music or movies that made the hearts beat faster. It is very likely that the passion will come up again (probably a bit smaller). Because Limbi has a damn good memory.

Conclusion: Neurology and happiness research in a double pack: Rarely does it have so much Fun made to deal with your own subconscious. Coaster Maker turns the mysterious limbic system into your best friend, Limbi, who is always at your disposal or disappears when you don't need him.

Concentration ability as key qualification

A cellphone is constantly ringing, reaching us 3 eMails all at once and Whatsapp doesn't rest either - who should have a successful one Presentation finish? In his new book, “Concentration”, Marco von Münchhausen shows how it is still possible today to concentrate on the point despite all the demands and distractions we are confronted with every day.

The ability to concentrate, writes Marco von Münchhausen, is an important key qualification in modern society Working world, yes, it is even “the decisive raw material of the 21st century”. It's all the worse that we're losing this ability more and more. Concentration has become a “state of emergency that is becoming increasingly rare” for all of us.

Munchausen is himself for surethat we are “in a anti-concentration Welt" life. Example Workplace: Science has found that on average we are interrupted in our work every eleven minutes - by phone calls, colleagues, eMails.

Multitasking is part of the problem

This is not without its consequences: around 80 percent of employees are no longer able to concentrate on just one task. Multitasking is not, as some believe, part of the solution, but part of the problem.

Multitasking is an illusion, says von Münchhausen. Because trying to work on several construction sites at the same time damages the ability to concentrate. Also the Stress, under which most of us are in professional life, is detrimental to the ability to concentrate:

Diffusion is the natural enemy of concentration

"In stress, the brain works at frequencies that are hostile to concentration," writes von Münchhausen. But that's not all: our own distractions add to the external disturbances.

Fast in between the eMails check what's new at Facebook, something has certainly happened in my WhatsApp group, once fast call home to see if the expected package has finally arrived or just let your thoughts off the leash and daydream...

An important book on an underestimated subject

Conclude, says von Münchhausen. The good news is: the ability to concentrate can be trained, just as a muscle can be trained. For example through meditation, through mindfulness training or simply through concentrated doing.

In addition, von Münchhausen gives numerous tips and recommendations on how to avoid external disturbances or at least keep them within limits. And last but not least we get klare Instructions on how to use our “electronic toys” (smartphone, tablet computer etc.).

“Concentration” by Marco von Münchhausen is a good and easy to understand book on an important and often neglected topic. It reminds us that excellence, but also the joy of doing without the ability to focus on the point, is not possible. And von Münchhausen shows us how we can easily regain and train this ability.

Schuster, do not stick to your last

Sometimes it's the little nudges that steer you in a different (and hopefully better) direction. A small book full of such nudges (for career, professional and personal advancement) is now available from one of the world's most influential Leadership-experts before. A stimulus to think, to come up with new ideas and to implement them.

The most important tool in the world is between our ears. For the brain is the place where the world is changed. In the big and small. The individual destiny is ultimately a result of what goes on the nearly six million kilometers of nerve tracts.

And because, as the neuroscientists today know, the brain adapts to its use, it makes sense to use the brain productively. Without going into the scientific background, John C. Maxwell has now written a guide to thinking differently. Namely, as successful people think.

Thinking is work

"Thinking differently is difficult," writes Maxwell, dispelling a widespread prejudice right at the beginning of his little book on thinking. Because “I thought of something great” or “I have a great one Idea” has nothing to do with thinking.

Because thinking is work. Something to take your time for. Something to practice and train. And it's not about brain fitness and logic puzzles, but about thinking as activity. To chew on a thing from beginning to end. And then implement. For those who stew in their own juice, Maxwell gives interesting and good impulses to free themselves.

Result-oriented thinking: wings with landscaping

In eleven short chapters, Maxwell addresses thinking methods and techniques. They lead to a different, constructive view of problem areas. And they encourage you to leave the drawers of thought and existence. His focus is always on the Balance between “out-of-the-box thinking” and the Implementation.

Because ideas alone are of no value as long as they are not so well thought out that they can be implemented. "Big ideas don't just need wings, they also need flaps," Maxwell rightly writes. Therefore, next to “creative thinking” there is “possibility-oriented thinking”, next to “unselfish thinking” there is “result-oriented thinking”.

Once through the brain turns durchkärchern

“This is how successful people think” always comes to the point, is professionally written, in a nutshell and therefore easy to read. Clear that there is also a lot here that you already know (or think you know). For example, that it is important to set goals (Chapter 2).

But Maxwell is also not originality. But for effectiveness. And you just can not preach the basics too often. Conclusion: A small, fast-to-read book full of impulses. And a nice ad for an incredibly unspectacular but incredibly effective activity: thinking.

Subtitles for fast readers

Whatever the future of books, we're always reading more. It is all the more important to optimize this old cultural technique of “reading”. This works out! I read Göran Askeljung's fast-reading book very slowly and the Method checked. Bingo!

Starting point for Askeljungs Technology: The Swedes learn to read quickly from an early age. TV shows in Sweden are mostly in the original with subtitles. In this way, even the little Swedes learn to quickly grasp the essence of a sentence. Askeljung has now “deciphered” this technique and Success made learnable. In his book he describes how it works.

Everyone spends an average of 4,7 hours reading

Age Swede! In his book “BrainRead”, Göran Askeljung sends you back to school to teach you to read (again) – but this time correctly. This means: grasping texts and contexts faster and remembering them more easily – entirely according to the Swedish teaching method.

Do not you need? However, even if you, like the average European employee - spend around 4,7 hours (!) Reading each day. Newspapers, books, eMails, websites, leaflets and advertisements - all of this can work your brain up much faster if you train it. Result: You are saving 2 hours, which you can spend with other things (or other texts).

To read quickly is to capture the essentials

Askeljung systematically trains you for faster reading comprehension. The goal: You can record up to 400 words per minute and still understand about 90 percent of the content.

More is also not necessary to grasp the essence of a text. How it works? They will read in future word groups, no more letter for letter.

The detalis is NOT important

Also, resist the temptation to Eye jump back to the previous line or join in quietly. Even at the risk that one or the other detail will remain hidden. never mind

“Out of a big pond full of big fish, you only fish those that taste best to you at the moment: the ones you need to make a decision to meet or at your Projects to keep working".

Scan and filter

That doesn't happen overnight, but with you exercise and system. Askeljung has the right tips (“scanning”, “filtering”) that will turn you into a fast reader in just a few weeks. You can check your continuous progress in numerous small tests.

Conclusion: "Brainread" is a really good and very useful book for everyone who has to read and process a lot of texts professionally. The tips are easy to implement and show surprisingly quickly Effect.

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