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.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Part 1 When Everything Changed 1
Chapter 1 My Reboot 3
Chapter 2 Doing Your Own Reboot 15
Chapter 3 The Brain You Were Born With 19
Chapter 4 What Goes Wrong with Our Brain and Why? 27
Chapter 5 Modern Life with Our Ancient Mind 43
Part 2 Becoming the New You: Your Mental Reboot 49
Chapter 6 For Your Reboot: The Power of Choice Is Your Most Important Asset 51
Chapter 7 Rebooting Your Control of You 59
Chapter 8 Rebooting Your Limitless Ability to Learn 75
Chapter 9 Rebooting Your Thought Process 89
Part 3 Rebooting Your Happiness And Letting Go of Limiting Perceptions 105
Chapter 10 To Find Happiness, You Must “Unbecome” 107
Chapter 11 Myth: Some People Have “It,” but You Don’t 115
Chapter 12 Myth: Circumstances Control Your Destiny 129
Chapter 13 Myth: There Is Always a Shortcut 137
Chapter 14 Myth: To Succeed You Need to Be Lucky 145
Chapter 15 Myth: Success Happens Overnight 155
Chapter 16 Super Myth: Failure Should Be Avoided 165
Chapter 17 Super Myth: Feedback Can Be Negative 173
Chapter 18 Super Myth: You Should Be Afraid of Fear 179
Part 4 Finding Your Peace of Mind and Defining the Rebooted You 191
Chapter 19 Finding Peace in Your Time 193
Chapter 20 Finding Peace Through Love 211
Chapter 21 Redefining the Rebooted You 221
Appendix: Rebooting Your Beliefs and Perspective Affirmation Plan 233
Acknowledgments 243
About the Author 245
Index 247
