{"id":2040,"date":"2011-03-11T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cerebyte.com\/journal\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T10:57:27","slug":"the-role-of-mindfulness-in-peak-mental-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2011\/03\/11\/the-role-of-mindfulness-in-peak-mental-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of mindfulness in peak mental performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p><strong>By William Seidman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>I continue to be impressed by leadership coach <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.davidrock.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Rock\u2019s <\/a>book \u201cYour Brain at Work.\u201d\u00a0 He makes the point, reinforced with data, that \u201cpeak mental performance requires both \u201cknowing your brain and the ability to observe brain processes occurring.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Rock uses a theater metaphor:\u00a0 think of actors as conscious information, the audience members as subconscious awareness (memories, habits) and the director \u2013 a very important role \u2013\u00a0 who stands outside experience and makes decisions about how the actors (your conscious information) will respond. This &#8220;director&#8221; is your executive function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Socrates and many of history\u2019s great teachers and philosophers have recommended self-awareness and self-examination, another way to think about the &#8220;director.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/psychology\/fac-bios\/Ochsner\/faculty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Ochsner<\/a>,\u00a0who directs the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Columbia University, puts it this way: \u201cSelf-awareness is the capacity to step outside your own skin and look at yourself with as close to an objective eye as you possibly can. In many cases it means having a third-person perspective on yourself: \u00a0imagine seeing yourself through the eyes of another individual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mindfulness<\/strong> is another term for this, and its importance to effective leadership can&#8217;t be overstated.<\/p>\n\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,287,73,18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The role of mindfulness in peak mental performance - Cerebyte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cerebyte.com\/2011\/03\/11\/the-role-of-mindfulness-in-peak-mental-performance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The role of mindfulness in peak mental performance - 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