When I first read the manuscript for Your Brain at Work, I asked David Rock if I could share it with my wife and two teenagers. The writing is clear, the ideas transformative, and the setup fabulous: Scenes are played out in normal day-today work and home life, then the same situation is reenacted when the characters have learned to think and behave with the “brain in mind.” When they’ve developed the ability to understand their minds more deeply—to have what I call “mindsight”—they have a conscious choice over how to engage their brains, and now have the power to change their habits.
The mind—how we regulate the flow of energy and information—uses the brain to create itself. For this reason, the emerging science of the brain is ...