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MAXIMUM NEURO-HARMONY AND COGNITIVE CONTROL
3 TYPES OF FOCUS
I wrote
out some notes from Prof. Daniel Goleman talk at google on his new book: Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence. He stated the 3 types of focus anyone with a
sphere of influence requires.
Inner
focus: The ability to manage oneself.
Outer
focus: The ability to read other people effectively and be able to persuade
other people.
Systems
awareness: useful for strategic thinking – ability to be aware of what is going
on in our world with respect to technology, the economy, and so on. For
example, if your boss gave you a query at work, that is a threat. So is global
warming. However, intuitively, the latter is usually relegated to “nothing”.
INNER
FOCUS
Here I
will focus on inner focus: the ability to work at one’s best. This is sometimes
called Good work, and it occurs when we have “maximum neuro-harmony”. Good work
tend to reflect when we fulfill 3 main requirements.
The best
set of skills for the job
Love for
the job
Perfect
alignment of the job with one’s ethics.
To also
get to the state of Good work, psychologists have figured out that cognitive
control (also called delay in gratification) is non-negotiable.
TWO
STUDIES
The
famous marshmellow test. Four year olds were given 1 marshmellow, and they were
instructed that if they could wait 10 minutes without eating the marshmellow,
they will get an additional one. Some grabbed and some waited. About 14 years
later, the kids that delay gratification (waited for 10 minutes) had a 200
point average advantage on the SAT.
In a similar
study in New Zealand about a thousand 4-8 year olds were tested for cognitive
control. 32 years later they were tracked down. The study revealed that their
cognitive control predicted health and financial success better than their IQ
or the socio economic status of their family.
Hence,
there has been a push to teach cognitive control to kids.
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