Play Your Brain: Adopt a Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career

  • 3h 19m
  • Anette Prehn, Kjeld Fredens
  • Marshall Cavendish
  • 2011

Do you want to... Turn your brain into a co-player not an opponent? Create that crucial readiness to change in yourself and others? Build a stronger repertoire in whatever you do? Then get to know the 8 keys on your inner piano. In Play Your Brain, award-winning trainer Anette Prehn and neuroscience researcher Kjeld Fredens introduce a groundbreaking approach to coaching yourself: through knowledge of how your brain works, combined with a playful, flexible, musical attitude in working along with it. Here are simple yet powerful tools for achieving the goals in your life and career. Whatever your experience in other instruments, you can become a virtuoso at playing your brain and playing your way to success.

About the Authors

Anette Prehn is an award-winning trainer, leadership consultant, thinker, public speaker, sociologist (M.A.), and professional certified coach (International Coach Federation). Specialising in how to apply the insights of neuroscience to human interaction, resultoptimisation and change, Anette has worked with executives, managers, and teams in numerous organisations, and is also a guest lecturer at Copenhagen Business School. She has published two books in Danish. In 2009, Anette was awarded the title Trainer of the Year (Leadership/Coaching) by Confex.

Kjeld Fredens is a medical doctor, independent brain researcher, thinker, innovator and highly sought-after public speaker. He has worked in the field of neurobiology for more than 35 years, and has been associate professor of neurobiology (brain research) at the University of Aarhus, director of research and development at a rehabilitation centre, principal of a teacher-training college, and editor of the Danish magazine, Cognition & Education. He is an adviser of competence and recipient of the FTF Culture Prize. His special interests are the actions and mental processes that lead to learning, innovation and co-operation. Kjeld has written eight books.

In this Book

  • Play Your Brain—Adopt a Musical Mindset and Change Your Life and Career
  • Introduction—Setting The Tone
  • Thoughts—Tuning Your Mind For Success
  • Values—Appreciating The Core Of Interplay
  • Body—Mastering Your Physical Instrument
  • Perception—Directing Your Interpretations
  • Vision—Rehearsing The Future
  • Goals—Making Your Dreams Attainable
  • Emotions—Picking Your Emotional Strings
  • Successes—Tapping Into Your Achievements
  • All Together Now! Playing The Keys, Creating The Change
  • Glossary
  • Notes
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