Why smart people underperform

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Why smart people underperform

• Henry

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Norm of current society

• The chief value of the modern era is speed the
  form of ecstasy that technology has bestowed on
  modern man. Milan Kundera
• The close door button in elevators is often the
  one with the paint worn off. Faster the
  acceleration of just about everything. James
  Gleik

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ADT (Attention Deficit Trait)

• What does ADT stand for ?
• ADT Attention deficit trait
• Cause Brain overload caused by overwork
• Symptom Distractability, inner frenzy and
  impatience
• Result Difficulty in staying organized, setting
  priority and managing time.
• As our minds fill with noise, the brain gradually
  loses its capacity to attend fully or thoroughly
  to anything.

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ADT (Attention Deficit Trait)

• The ADT sufferer feels a constant low level of
  panic or guilt. Facing a tidal wave of tasks,
  curt, peremptory and unfocused, while pretending
  that everything is fine.
• ADT is characterized by ADDs negative symptoms
  which include a tendency to procrastinate and
  miss deadlines.
• ADD Attention deficit / hyperactivity
  disorder A learning disability in
  children

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Executive Functioning (EF)

• EF guides decision making and planning, the
  organization and prioritization of information
  and ideas, time management, and various other
  sophiscated, uniquely human management tasks.
• Fear shifts us into survival mode and thus
  prevents fluid learning and nuanced
  understanding.

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Working environment

• Companies demand fast thinking rather than deep
  thinking.
• Firms ask employees to work on multiple
  overlapping projects and initiatives resulting in
  second rate thinking.
• Companies reward those who say yes to overload
  while punishing those who choose to focus and say
  no.
• Organizations force their employees to do more
  and more with less and less by eliminating
  support staff.
• People rely on their cell phones, email and
  digital assistants in the race to gather and
  transmit data, plans and ideas faster and faster.

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The treatment of ADT

• The treatment of ADT does not require meditation,
  it can be controlled only by creatively
  engineering ones environment and ones emotional
  and physical health.

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The treatment of ADT

• Promote positive emotions
• Building a positive, fearfree emotional
  atmosphere is important because emotion is the
  on/off switch for executive turning.
• Building environment where people are in physical
  contact and where they trust and respect each
  other.
• Fostering connections and reducing fear promote
  brain power.

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The treatment of ADT

• Take physical care of your brain Sleep, a good
  diet and exercise
• Sleep deprivation endangers a host of problems,
  from impaired decision making and reduced
  creativity to reckless behavior or paranoia.
• A good rule of thing is that you are getting
  enough sleep if you wake up without an alarm
  clock.
• Get up from your desk and go up and down a flight
  of stairs.

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The treatment of ADT

• Organize for ADT
• Before you leave the day, make a list of no more
  than five priority items that will require your
  attention tomorrow.
• OHIO rule
• Only handle it once
• If you touches a document, you act it, file it or
  throws it away.

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The treatment of ADT

• Protect your frontal lobe
• If you begin to feel overwhelmed try to the
  following mind clearing tricks.
• Do an easy rote task, such as resetting the
  calendar on your watch or writing a memo on a
  neutral topic.

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Facts

• As demands continue to increase, a toxic, high
  pressure environment leads to high rates of
  employee illness and turnover.

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What leader can do ?

• Leader should invent a positive environment
• Leader should match employees skills to tasks.

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Key finding and learning

• Quality sleeping -gt Quit smoking
• Standing, walking and thinking while working
  hours
• Exercise
• Playing tennis
• Climbing mountain -gt mental refreshness
• Reading the book
• Clear your desk
• Put your things in right place