Excellence through Mind-Brain Development

Everyone seeks to attain excellence and happiness in their lives, yet world-class performance is rare. Research shows that education accounts for only 1 per cent of performance levels, work experience only 3 per cent, and age in adults 0 per cent. The authors have unearthed the secret of world-class performance: Excellence in any profession

Autorentext

Dr Harald S. Harung is a high performer in lecturing, research and the sport of orienteering. He teaches management, ethics, and world-class performance to classes of up to 500 students at Oslo Metropolitan University. For more than 30 years, he has been working as a researcher and consultant within human performance development, both on the individual and organizational level. Dr Harung has lectured worldwide. Dr Frederick Travis has been Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management for 25 years. His work has focused on brain development from birth to adulthood and effects of meditation experiences on the brain. He teaches on the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels and has lectured globally on brain and consciousness. With Dr Harung, he has researched the brain patterns of successful people, which forms a pillar of understanding excellence.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A Vision of Possibilities through Higher Human Development 2.First Performance Dimension: Enhancing Brain Functioning: Objective Foundation of World-class Performance 3. Second Performance Dimension: Better Psychology: Getting to Effective Performance 4. Third Performance Dimension: Lasting Peak Experiences: Gateway to Lasting Excellence 5. Fourth Performance Dimension: Higher Organizational and Societal Development: Getting to Shared Excellence 6. The Performeasure® Assessment: Revealing the Secret of World-class Performance 7. How to Achieve Excellence: Transform the Performer to Transform Performance 8. Conclusion: Can Widespread Excellence Be Achieved? Appendix 1.Definition of Important Terms Appendix 2.The Biochemistry of World-class Performance Appendix 3.Names of World-class Performers References