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书名：Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence专注
作者：Daniel Goleman丹尼尔·戈尔曼
出版社名称：Harper
出版时间：2014
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062344434
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：320
专注力，是互联网时代稀缺的心灵资产。
“情商之父”丹尼尔·戈尔曼用“情商”教你修炼专注力，进行自我提升。
这是一个分心的时代。高速的互联网、各种手机应用程序、电子邮件、让人沉迷其中的游戏，无时无刻都在冲击着我们的大脑。不论你是领导者、商业人士或者是普通白领阶层，抑或是求学阶段的学生，突然之间，你会发现，在这个互联网时代，你已经很难专注于做一件重要的事了。
专注力是一种重要的心灵资产，对我们的人生起到指航引路的重大作用。但长期以来，鲜有人正式讨论这个课题，更是低估了它的作用。在Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence《专注》一书中，世界知名心理学大师丹尼尔·戈尔曼，追踪人类科学前沿20余年，致力于为读者带来新奇、重要的发现。
In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.
Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.
Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not.
Review
“Goleman has provided a highly readable manifesto for turning our smartphones off once in a while.” — Financial Times
“With compelling insights, wide-ranging examples, and cutting-edge science, Daniel Goleman makes the convincing case that the ability to focus is a key to excellence, in both our personal and professional lives—and also explains how to boost that focus.” — Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project
“Daniel Goleman has written the perfect preion for today’s deficit of attention in business and life... Highly recommended!” — Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Peak and Emotional Equations
“I’ve been studying attention for more than a decade, but I learned something new on every page of Focus. It is a powerful guide for taking control of our attention and will lead you to nothing less than taking control of your life.” — Tony Schwartz, author of The Power of Full Engagementand CEO of The Energy Project
“Daniel Goleman has surpassed himself in the breadth, depth, and readability of this fascinating meditation on what is most important for human, organizational, and planetary flourishing. Focusshows us how to go about paying attention in all the ways that really matter.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and author ofMindfulness for Beginners
“Attention is so important that ordinary people take it for granted, while scientists subject it to microanalysis. Steering deftly between these extremes, Dan Goleman synthesizes what is known and what we need to know.” — Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs, Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
在Focus《专注》一书中，丹尼尔·戈尔曼以其深耕多年的心理学研究功底，精确提炼出专注力的三种形式，即内在专注、对他人专注和外在专注。
内在专注：能帮助聆听到直觉和价值观的声音——就像史蒂夫·乔布斯所说的“内心的声音”，做出更明智的决策。
对他人专注：能帮助你捕捉到微妙的情绪信号，培育与他人更加和谐的关系，成为更富同理心的聆听者，同时也能迅速提高你的情商。
外在专注：可以让他们在广阔天地任意翱翔，帮助你了解大环境，对决策、组织的管理和创新极其重要。
领导者若不关注内在就会随波逐流，不关注他人就会进退失据，不关注所处的大系统就会墨守成规。戈尔曼认为，我们只有同时掌握这三种专注力，生活才会更美好。他引用了大量案例论证了高效人士所需要全部三种专注力。
专注力的原理和肌肉一样：使用不当就会退化，使用得当就会增强。戈尔曼令人信服地论证了，在纷纷扰扰层出不穷的今天，我们要应对纷繁复杂的世界，甚至做到游刃有余，我们比任何时候都需要学会专注。
《专注》，必将成为一部震撼你心灵、让你励志一生的作品。
The author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence returns with a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what’s new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long-overdue discussion of this little-noticed and underrated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life. Attention works much like a muscle: use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grows. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to contend with, let alone thrive in, a complex world.
Goleman analyzes attention research as a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. A well-lived life demands that we be nimble at each. Goleman shows why high-performers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business. Those who excel rely on what Goleman calls smart practice—such as mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery from setbacks, continued attention to the learning curve, and positive emotions and connections—that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain excellence. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers. Ultimately,Focus calls upon readers not only to pay attention to what matters most to them personally, but also to turn their attention to the pressing problems of the wider world, to the powerless and the poor, and to the future, not just to the seductively simple demands of the here and now.
丹尼尔·戈尔曼，哈佛大学心理学博士，现为美国科学促进会研究员，曾四度获颁美国心理协会荣誉奖项，并荣获美国心理学会终身成就奖。其经典著作《情商》，畅销逾1000万册，高居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜18个月。他还曾在《纽约时报》任职12年，负责大脑与行为科学方面的报道；他还是《今日心理学》资深编辑，文章散见全球各重要报刊。畅销著作有《情商：为什么情商比智商更重要》、《情商2：影响你一生的社交商》、《情商3：影响你一生的工作情商》、《情商4：决定你人生高度的领导情商》、《情商》（实践版）等。
Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago).
Part I: The Anatomy of Attention什么是专注力
Part II: Self-Awareness自我意识
Part III: Reading Others读懂他人
Part IV: The Bigger Context专注我们的大世界
Part V: Smart Practice巧妙的训练
Part VI: The Well-Focused Leader领导者的专注力
Part VII: The Big Picture大图景
To watch John Berger, house detective, track the shoppers wandering the first floor of a department store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is to witness attention in action. In a nonde black suit, white shirt, and red tie, walkie-talkie in hand, John moves perpetually, his focus always riveted on one or another shopper. Call him the eyes of the store.
It’s a daunting challenge. There are more than fifty shoppers on his floor at any one time, drifting from one jewelry counter to the next, perusing the Valentino scarves, sorting through the Prada pouches. As they browse the goods, John browses them.
John waltzes among the shoppers, a study in Brownian motion. For a few seconds he stands behind a purse counter, his eyes glued to a prospect, then flits to a vantage point by the door, only to glide to a corner where a perch allows him a circumspect look at a potentially suspicious trio.
While customers see only the merchandise, oblivious to John’s watchful eye, he scrutinizes them all.
There’s a saying in India, “When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are the pockets:” In any crowd what John would see are the pickpockets. His gaze roams like a spotlight. I can imagine his face seeming to screw up into a giant ocular orb reminiscent of the one-eyed Cyclops. John is focus embodied.
What does he scan for? “It’s a way their eyes move, or a motion in their body that tips him off to the intention to pilfer, John tells me. Or those shoppers bunched together, or the one furtively glancing around. “I’ve been doing this so long I just know the signs.”
As John zeroes in on one shopper among the fifty, he manages to ignore the other forty-nine, and everything else—a feat of concentration amid a sea of distraction.
Such panoramic awareness, alternating with his constant vigilance for a telling but rare signal, demands several varieties of attention—sustained attention, alerting, orienting, and managing all that—each based in a distinctly unique web of brain circuitry, and each an essential mental tool.
John’s sustained scan for a rare event represents one of the first facets of attention to be studied scientifically. Analysis of what helped us stay vigilant started during World War II, spurred on by the military’s need to have radar operators who could stay at peak alert for hours—and by the finding that they missed more signals toward the end of their watch, as attention lagged.
At the height of the Cold War, I remember visiting a researcher who had been commissioned by the Pentagon to study vigilance levels during sleep deprivation lasting three to five days—about how long it estimated the military officers deep in some bunker would need to stay awake during World War II. Fortunately his experiment never had to be tested against hard reality, although his encouraging finding was that even after three or more sleepless nights people could pay keen attention if their motivation was high enough (but if they didn’t care, they would nod off immediately).
In very recent years the science of attention has blossomed far beyond vigilance. That science tells us these skills determine how well we perform any task. If they are stunted, we do poorly; if muscular, we can excel. Our very nimbleness in life depends on this subtle faculty. Vhi1e the link between attention and excellence remains hidden most of the time, it ripples through almost everything we seek to accomplish.
