067: Sharpening Your Memory and Focus with Joanna Jast
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Blogger Joanna Jast shares best practices for boosting your brain’s performance.
You’ll Learn:
- The optimal surroundings for optimal productivity
- Quick hacks for improving your focus
- How our brains are wired to absorb information
About Joanna
Joanna Jast is the author of Laser-Sharp Focus and a top mental performance seeker. She uses her medical background and low-tolerance for fluff to find proven ways of accelerating learning and personal growth. Her mission is to help people achieve professional and educational success faster.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: Shape Shifters Club by Joanna Jast
- Joanna on Quora
- Book: Laser Sharp Focus by Joanna Jast
- Book: Brain Rules by John Medina
- Book: Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Book: Smart Cuts by Shane Snow
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.1 | Well, hello again. You know, you must be very, very smart joining us for episode 67 here and I've got good news for you. |
| 0:29.0 | My next guest, Joanna Jast, has some pro tips in terms of getting even smarter. She's got some great practices associated |
| 0:36.2 | with boosting your brain's performance. So if you got to learn some things, cut through that |
| 0:40.0 | mental clutter, then this is the guest for you. |
| 0:43.1 | So you're gonna learn one, the optimal environment type |
| 0:46.2 | surroundings for optimal productivity. |
| 0:48.2 | Two, quick hacks for improving your focus. |
| 0:50.7 | And three, how our brains are wired to absorb information so if you want to check |
| 0:55.8 | out the show notes that transcripts the links to items mentioned here you'll find |
| 0:59.5 | them over at awesome at your job dot com job slash Epp 6.7. |
| 1:03.6 | However, if you would like those sorts of takeaways faster |
| 1:07.3 | in an email that you can read in under two minutes, |
| 1:09.6 | go ahead and sign up for the gold nugget email list |
| 1:11.5 | while you're over there at awesome at your job dot com to hear these pro tips from Joanna and the 66 guests |
| 1:17.2 | that came before her and the many to follow. So here's a quick bit about |
| 1:21.6 | Joanna Jast is the author of Laser Sharp Focus and a top |
| 1:25.8 | mental performance seeker. She uses her medical background and low tolerance for fluff to find |
| 1:31.1 | proven ways of accelerating learning and personal growth. |
| 1:34.0 | Her mission is to help people achieve professional and educational success faster. |
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