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Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career Hardcover – June 11, 2019

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To succeed at work, first you need to understand your own brain

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move?

We know that psychology can teach us much about behaviors and challenges relevant to work, such as making better decisions, influencing people, and dealing with stress. But many popular books on these topics analyze them as universal human phenomena without providing real-life, constructive career help.

Bring Your Brain to Work changes all that. Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career--getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position--and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

To succeed at a job interview, for example, you need to understand the mindset of the interviewer and know how to come across as exactly the individual the company wants to hire. To keep that job, it's critical to master the mental challenge of learning every day. Finally, careers require constant development, so you need to be able to sense when it's time to move up or out and to prepare yourself for the move. So many of the hurdles you face throughout your career are, first and foremost, psychological challenges, and Markman shows you how to use your different mental systems--motivational, social, and cognitive--to manage them more effectively.

Integrating the latest research with engaging stories and examples from across the professional spectrum, Bring Your Brain to Work gets inside your head, helping you to succeed through a better understanding of yourself and those around you.

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"After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of your professional fit, from where you currently fall in line to where you need to be. You'll be much more in tune with the people around you, and you'll be able to champion yourself and your career." -- TD magazine (Association for Talent Development)

Named a Financial Times Business Book of the Month

Advance Praise for Bring Your Brain to Work:

Daniel H. Pink, author, When and Drive--
"Bring Your Brain to Work is a glorious mash-up of cognitive science and career counseling. Rich with the latest research, this book reveals what our brains are doing at work--whether we're looking for a job, beginning a career, or moving on to a new position. Then it distills the findings into smart takeaways you can apply on Monday morning. Use your brain--and read this wise and useful book."

Vanessa Van Edwards, behavioral investigator, Science of People; author, Captivate--
"Every professional needs this book. Markman has written the perfect primer for being more effective at work. And the best part? It's science based!"

Jeff Kaye, Co-CEO, Kaye/Bassman International and Next Level Recruiting Training--
"Bring Your Brain to Work provides the tools for you to be the CEO of your own career and the author of your own life. The next chapter awaits."

Katharine Brooks, EdD, author, You Majored in What?--
"Based on sound research in psychology and cognitive science, Bring Your Brain to Work will help you capitalize on the motivational, social, and cognitive mental systems critical for your success. Whether you're seeking a job, trying to succeed in your current role, or hoping to move on, Markman's book will help you stand out every step of the way."

Heidi Grant, PhD, author, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently and Reinforcements--
"In Bring Your Brain to Work, Art Markman explains what you need to know about your brain to get it to see things clearly, make better choices, and ultimately get you where you want to go: where work is meaningful and rewarding."

David Burkus, author, Friend of a Friend and Under New Management--
"A fantastic collection of insights about how to put your brain to work when you're navigating the workplace."

About the Author

Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also the executive director of the IC2 Institute. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done, and is cohost of the popular radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head (@2GoYH) on KUT radio in Austin.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press (June 11, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633696111
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633696112
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
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Art Markman is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations. His research explores a variety of topics in thinking including the way people form and use analogies, generate creative ideas, and make decisions. He blogs for Psychology Today, Fast Company, occasionally for HBR. He is co-host of the public radio show and podcast Two Guys on Your Head, produced by KUT in Austin. Art's books include Brain Briefs, Smart Thinking, Habits of Leadership, and Smart Change.

In his spare time, Art plays saxophone in a Ska band, writes for the Psychology Department Limerick Committee, and hangs out with his family.

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Interested Learner
5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, concise, extremely useful
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019
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This is such a wonderful compendium of important ideas related to building a successful life and career. Markman effectively organizes the findings of research in psychology and explains their relevance to the the various personal dimensions of work: the often daunting elements of job hunting, dealing with colleagues and bosses, and knowing when to step away and try something new. The writing is lucid and approachable, and the ideas he presents help you better understand yourself and the people around you. It was a pleasure to read.
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wazzy26
4.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing approach to career help
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019
This book is a refreshing way to look at career help. The author writes about three aspects of the brain: Social-helps you deal with your co-workers. Motivational-what drives you. Cognitive-how you make decisions. I like how each chapter ends with takeaways focusing on each aspect of the brain. If you are looking for a fresh approach to job searching definitely read this book.
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Isaac N Asare
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2020
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This book is great, I learned a lot from reading it. It is very easy to read. I first heard about your book from Wharton school of business on Dr Dawn show career talk. The book is very good, a lot of good information and knowledge in the book.I am a baby reader but I enjoyed reading it.This is my first one from you.
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Ning Duanmu
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Read
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
This a great book that helps you understand profound concepts using simple and understandable language. I highly recommend this book.
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Becky Lee Maggio
5.0 out of 5 stars It was a gift & I hadn’t heard anything yet.
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Robert Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars How cognitive science can help accelerate personal growth and professional development
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019
Briefly, cognitive skills are the core skills your brain uses to think, read, learn, remember, reason, and communicate. Art Markham helps his reader to understand "how to develop your career using cognitive science. To do this effectively, you need to do two things: First, you must appreciate the three phases that define a career path: getting a job selling, excelling, and moving on. Second, you should become acquainted with the three brain systems that will help you achieve your goals: the motivational brain, the social brain, and the cognitive brain." As a "bonus," he also examines the jazz brain that involves a capacity to improvise with expertise.

Markham skillfully uses several reader-friendly devices. Probably the most valuable is a set of "Takeaways" that concludes chapters 2-10. Each consists of key points about "Your Brains" and "Your Tips." This device will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of the most important material later.

Here are other passages that also caught my eye, included to suggest the scope of Markham's coverage in Chapters 1-7:

o Making the Most of Your Career (Pages 3-5)
o Bonus Brain: The Jazz Brain (11)
o Consideration Sets and Values (23-25)
o Creating Your Consideration XSet (28-32)
o Your [Job] Application (36-42)

o The Interview (42-43)
o After the Interview (54)
o Negotiation Time: Fixing the Information Asymmetry, an dc, What Is Negotiation?(60-65)
o Reaching a Decision (71-73)
o Saying No (76-77)

o Learning as Gap Filling (83-91)
o Continuing Education (97-99)
o Communicating Effectively in Different Modes (106-109)
o Hard Conversations (117-121)
o Barriers to Productivity (130-146)

As I worked my way through Markham's lively as well as eloquent narrative, I was again reminded of an observation by Alivin Toffler in Future Shock (1984): "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Literacy in years to come will be measured by how well developed most or (preferably all) of a person's four brains are. As Marham explains, the motivational brain "is a set of mechanisms that get you to do something (or sometimes avoid doing something)"; the social brain "is the collection of systems that help you deal with other people"; the cognitive brain "is the elaborate set of structures that permit you to communicate, make excellent snap decisions on the basis of your experience, and engage in complex reasoning"; and the jazz brain is "our capacity to improvise...dealing with new [perhaps wholly unfamiliar] situations and revising a plan on the fly."

The title of this remarkable book could well have been "Bring Your Brains to Work...for Better or Worse." For you, which will it be?
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Axel Ebermann
1.0 out of 5 stars wishy washy name dropping
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019
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While there is plenty of use of fancy lingo and research name dropping the content is actually quite thin
as far as useful advise is concerned.
If you take out all of the hyperbole you can sum it up as 'Be pleasant, flexible and nice to your co-workers' - not exactly a a groundbreaking discovery.
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Gizelle A.
2.0 out of 5 stars Snoozefest
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020
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Dry and boring. Nothing innovative here. Waste of money.
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