Focus: the Hidden Driver of Excellence | Daniel Goleman | Talks at Google

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  • čas přidán 5. 12. 2013
  • In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.
    Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.
    Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices-mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental "prosthetics" that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness-excel while others do not.
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Komentáře • 148

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly Před 8 lety +66

    endless seductions -- so pervasive in our culture. Any lecture that gives us insight to keep on track (when so many distractions take us away from our immediate concern or task) is of value.

    • @bhinderbinder
      @bhinderbinder Před 7 lety

      ... were the seductions planned? think about it ...

  • @benitomontero1704
    @benitomontero1704 Před 4 lety +30

    The problem with this video is that while you watch it, you start reading the comments at the same time.. therefore you lose focus.

  • @BennyBlancoo
    @BennyBlancoo Před 6 lety +5

    Awesome talk, thank you for sharing, I equally love the most accurate & simplified description, on complex issue such as achieving the most desired state, state of flow.

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Před rokem +3

    I'm thankful for this lecture once again; focus, attention and cognition. Environment and health promotes the social well being of an individual as well as those around, it helps to listen to one's environment, to others and apply empathy when necessary to resolve a ' wicked ' problem. Thank you Daniel Goleman.

  • @joelarao8363
    @joelarao8363 Před 6 lety +11

    Three years have passed and the talk is still very useful and up to date.
    thank you.

    • @goldnutter412
      @goldnutter412 Před 2 lety

      Yes, I try to convey this fact every day. Time is finite, mental resources are finite.

    • @bix194
      @bix194 Před rokem

      8 years now!

  • @ifeanyio7253
    @ifeanyio7253 Před 3 lety +4

    15:00 Good work - Howard Gardner: Combines our best kills (what we are excellent at), what we love (what engages us), and what we believe in (sense of ethics, value, purpose, and meaning). Alignment of excellent, engagement, and ethics.

    • @plko90
      @plko90 Před 2 lety

      Spelling/grammar fix and expansion: 15:00 Howard Gardner: "Good Work" combines our best skills (what we are excellent at), what we love doing (what engages us), and what we believe in (our sense of ethics, values, purpose, and meaning). In other words, an alignment of Excellence, Engagement and Ethics, resulting in an attentional state of maximal cognitive efficiency or maximal neural harmony, a state of "flow".

  • @azharoslan
    @azharoslan Před 9 lety +22

    2:36 party on !!

  • @oysterpopsicles3362
    @oysterpopsicles3362 Před 8 lety +3

    Once again, Dr. Goleman never fails to leave you with tools that pragmatic and blanket everyone pragmatically. His material is absolute gold!

  • @ftnsco
    @ftnsco Před 8 lety +16

    Such a great lecture. These google talks are amazing! Thanks for sharing them.

  • @ginnyfitzsimmons2541
    @ginnyfitzsimmons2541 Před 10 lety +3

    Time well spent with tons of practical application

  • @kennethlee6903
    @kennethlee6903 Před 7 lety +18

    Mindfulness , by Buddha , 5000 years ago.
    Emotional intelligence, 1990.
    I enjoy the way things are progressing and being explained scientifically,
    Something very important to us, spirituality should be practiced also.
    Mind , body, spirit.

    • @sanjiimr
      @sanjiimr Před 6 lety

      Kenneth Lee i was also wondering the same..

  • @LisaPellegrino
    @LisaPellegrino Před 10 lety +11

    How wonderful to hear such a brilliant mind sum up how destructively our industrial systems deviate from Nature. I sincerely hope more people (from Google and beyond) really start incorporating Biomimicry as an elegant & powerful lens for finding solutions. P.S. I love that Google brings in authors for lectures at the office!

  • @JK-pe4hr
    @JK-pe4hr Před 3 lety

    Yea, this the right audience to lecture about focus. It's those guys who allow/encourage CZcamsrs to placd ads in the middle of videos. Yea, great idea. 'How not to support a society's ability to focus and to memorise coherent information'. Well done!

  • @shmutz6051
    @shmutz6051 Před 4 lety +5

    basically a 1h reminder of getting back to work

  • @bentemela2739
    @bentemela2739 Před 9 lety +4

    Just finished this brilliant book! Daniel Goldman is superb!

  • @ricardowgomes
    @ricardowgomes Před 4 lety +6

    I'm reading this book right now and it's wonderful

  • @grakhel
    @grakhel Před 10 lety +2

    Thank you for the lecture :).

  • @macll1
    @macll1 Před 10 lety +3

    muy buena elección es tener este nuevo libro y disfrutar atentamente de sus páginas con aleccionadores estímulos para estar "enfocados/as"

  • @Truongchihai83
    @Truongchihai83 Před 5 lety +2

    SUPERB , GREAT LESSON OF FOCUS

  • @sonicapujji
    @sonicapujji Před 2 lety +3

    I loved everything about this talk. Great takeaways for someone designing learning experiences. Thanks for having such great conversations and sharing it @Google.

  • @MekonenMeteor123
    @MekonenMeteor123 Před 3 lety +3

    Love the opening guy lol

  • @victoriabarbaros8788
    @victoriabarbaros8788 Před 2 lety +6

    A wonderful speech that I savored with my ears and mind :) However, I am a bit confused about a thing. At 10:46 Mr. Goleman specifies that " ... managing ourselves turns out to be based on how aware we are of ourselves.". Is it always the case for it to be that way? As far as I know, according to the Big Five model, being aware of ourselves relates to the trait Conscientiousness and self-consciousness is a trait facet of Neuroticism. There is no correlation between Neuroticism and Conscientiousness, meaning they are independent of one another. So while listening, I was still thinking "There are so many people overly conscious of what they feel and still not able to manage their emotions.". So maybe the cognitive ability to inhibit impulses is more important in this case? ( Sorry for this long comment. I am simply very curios about this topic :)) )

  • @sanjiimr
    @sanjiimr Před 6 lety

    8:53 How do you tackle it, when the top 10% of the role holders have variation in the traits exhibitted,due to their style of working (equifinality)? Does the competency model hold its relevance?

  • @DanielFonseca1
    @DanielFonseca1 Před 10 lety +5

    A great talk from a brilliant mind.

  • @anikyt7570
    @anikyt7570 Před 6 lety +3

    Great speech !! Thank you Talks at Google

  • @saintjabroni
    @saintjabroni Před 2 lety

    An incredible speaker and intellect on the subject, speaking the speak at Google which is helping destroying people’s attention every second of every day. Interesting, that’s all. No one can stop the addiction to smartphones but themselves.

  • @GR_BackingTracks
    @GR_BackingTracks Před 11 měsíci

    15:05 "good work" - excellence + engagement + ethic

  • @timeabezdan9927
    @timeabezdan9927 Před 7 lety

    Well, I think that connection between making love and focus is worth to think about that....

  • @TheAlirezaSha
    @TheAlirezaSha Před 5 lety +3

    34:34 the moment that you realize, we have 20 more minutes, let’s forget the subject of the talk and speak about Human Footprint on earth! Really!!!!

  • @claungwen
    @claungwen Před 9 lety

    Thank you so much, Google !

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you very much.

  • @JoshuaRaichur
    @JoshuaRaichur Před 10 lety +1

    Great talk!

  • @tchedoumenou1165
    @tchedoumenou1165 Před 5 lety

    my heart has melted @19:47 ,damn you you lucky cameraman !! cant't focus anymore...

  • @cyc7lops
    @cyc7lops Před 5 lety +1

    Fabulous lecture; this one won't waste your time.

    • @manjunatham8835
      @manjunatham8835 Před 4 lety

      There is no such thing as wasting time, whether you give it others or give it yourself both do not make any sense. Time is running away every day.

  • @CristobalRuiz
    @CristobalRuiz Před rokem

    What a great introduction! I wish I was I had a friend like that fella!

  • @bazar_historias_peludas

    Thanks Google Talks!

  • @femmefatale5715
    @femmefatale5715 Před 9 lety +5

    that was awesome !!!

  • @jimmyramos6296
    @jimmyramos6296 Před 3 lety +1

    Focus to the solution and breaking the hard core.

  • @diegonayalazo
    @diegonayalazo Před 2 lety

    Thanks for sharing

  • @vouserdelegado
    @vouserdelegado Před 8 lety +1

    Thanks 😀

  • @ireneulbrich2720
    @ireneulbrich2720 Před 9 lety

    Inspired to learn more about our everyday working brain, emotional and physical!

  • @meseletsegaye3998
    @meseletsegaye3998 Před 5 měsíci

    Daniel Golamen a lecture who a Good exepration

  • @rajansahu6720
    @rajansahu6720 Před 2 lety +1

    45:04 Reinvent Everything!

  • @giscertified
    @giscertified Před 9 lety +2


    How wonderful to hear... do you come to india?

  • @tanha8178
    @tanha8178 Před 2 lety +1

    Any idea on the book about focus, written by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt?. To be honest, I trust someone with true deep expertise like Daniel Coleman to make a speech, that sharing real first hand knowledge, rather than those who make money with talking and writing selfhelp books and no real acclaimed expertise ---And that includes Jim Rohn, the Herbalife dude, and Brian Tracy, the sale guy.

  • @lucasscolari1215
    @lucasscolari1215 Před 2 lety

    Amazing

  • @dilpagalho4306
    @dilpagalho4306 Před 5 lety +4

    Had to run this at 1.5x otherwise I'd loose focus :)

  • @virginiapetkova
    @virginiapetkova Před 8 lety +6

    I want to add Bulgarian subtitles to this video. Is it possible and what should I do?

    • @jsarvesh
      @jsarvesh Před 7 lety

      support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en

  • @MasterRealYou
    @MasterRealYou Před 8 měsíci

    information consumes your attention

  • @PaulaStreet
    @PaulaStreet Před 9 lety +5

    what about tapping into the creativity of ADD students in the educational system, rather than just classifying it as a problem all through the school years - the educational system should adapt, not the other way around....

  • @Austin-nf7cx
    @Austin-nf7cx Před rokem

    Ironically ... am listening while coding :D ! Focus !

  • @simonwang4389
    @simonwang4389 Před 7 lety +2

    24:35

  • @marchelandersen6839
    @marchelandersen6839 Před 2 lety

    gut feeling , what about experiances

  • @gopalkrishna294
    @gopalkrishna294 Před 3 lety

    Can anyone summary whole video

  • @dbsk06
    @dbsk06 Před 5 lety +1

    Reading comments on a video on focus

  • @charlessmyth
    @charlessmyth Před 6 lety

    I thought that was Eric Schmidt at 11:12, but it's not :-)

  • @lauratan4392
    @lauratan4392 Před 4 lety +1

    11:06 the way this man's looking at Daniel is absolutely terrifying.

    • @thelastsamuraiRonin
      @thelastsamuraiRonin Před 2 lety

      😀 he is trying to "focus" in a hard way.

    • @plko90
      @plko90 Před 2 lety

      He is thinking deeply - he asked three questions at the end!

  • @mintusaren895
    @mintusaren895 Před rokem

    Follow diversion.
    By diversity.
    Not guide line

  • @simonwang4389
    @simonwang4389 Před 7 lety +1

    28:26

  • @sanjeevnayak4063
    @sanjeevnayak4063 Před rokem

    I find it it hard to focus while listening to this. Can someone summarise it

  • @AMMIMTIC
    @AMMIMTIC Před 4 lety

    Notes to myself:
    Hiring: 9:00

  • @crono282
    @crono282 Před 10 měsíci

    0:13 Emootion... 👀

  • @maheshshimoga204
    @maheshshimoga204 Před 2 lety

    Divrrsions in all ways is the culprit

  • @thunderlei1865
    @thunderlei1865 Před 8 lety +2

    49:56 Q: cognitive control

  • @simonwang4389
    @simonwang4389 Před 7 lety +1

    15:40

  • @okybastian.5840
    @okybastian.5840 Před 4 lety +1

    18:00

  • @smartgenes1
    @smartgenes1 Před 3 lety

    Flow is something like a bored state, not an aware state at all.

  • @siddharthjani3637
    @siddharthjani3637 Před 2 lety

    What happened after 40 mins? Where did it go or was it my Focus?

  • @princekumaryadav1932
    @princekumaryadav1932 Před rokem

    ❤️

  • @stn5334
    @stn5334 Před rokem

    Who’s the first guy I love their friendship

  • @leswhitetrash697
    @leswhitetrash697 Před 3 lety +1

    At 8:20 a woman is looking at her phone.

  • @KoolIsKeith
    @KoolIsKeith Před 10 lety +7

    The people they cut to in the audience all look mad for some reason, haha.

  • @okybastian.5840
    @okybastian.5840 Před 4 lety

    45:00

  • @eoadedapo2071
    @eoadedapo2071 Před 2 lety

    What is the meaning of ADD?

  • @TheSWATSPAM
    @TheSWATSPAM Před 7 lety

    This needs ENG sub titles

    • @8Trails50
      @8Trails50 Před 7 lety +1

      Closed captioning has pretty good subtitles.

  • @susancappello5213
    @susancappello5213 Před 3 lety

    skin care products? Where did that come from?

  • @sands7779
    @sands7779 Před 2 lety

    06:30 floor effect

  • @okybastian.5840
    @okybastian.5840 Před 4 lety

    32:00

  • @linwang8068
    @linwang8068 Před rokem

    Who is this Meng?

  • @enormfilms9935
    @enormfilms9935 Před 6 lety +1

    8:22

  • @bhaskartripathi
    @bhaskartripathi Před 9 měsíci

    Dont read comments. The video is on focus!

  • @simonwang4389
    @simonwang4389 Před 7 lety

    2:35

  • @ashuua2909
    @ashuua2909 Před 7 lety

    He will find him, and make him SQUEAL! I know a squealer when I see one, and that,

  • @Stupchek
    @Stupchek Před 6 lety

    52:42 The penguin has escaped gotham city to attend google seminar.

  • @ycnexu
    @ycnexu Před 8 lety +12

    So, the talk is about focus until the speaker drifts off topic to some generic environmental awareness concern... thing (that I personally don't care about). So much for the focus then.
    (still find the talk useful)

  • @user-oe1iq9ir4b
    @user-oe1iq9ir4b Před 3 lety

    Dry beast 11

  • @lewy7601
    @lewy7601 Před 5 lety

    Ok, he explained John Wick's focus.

  • @mohammadhuzaifa7
    @mohammadhuzaifa7 Před 5 lety

    Didn't Expet To Hear About Dan Segul

  • @TheAlirezaSha
    @TheAlirezaSha Před 5 lety +1

    The talk is supposed to be about “focus”, but surprisingly the talk doesn’t make a coherent focused lecture! To me he just narrate whatever interesting comes to his mind! Ironically, this is the example not being focused!

    • @TheAlirezaSha
      @TheAlirezaSha Před 5 lety

      34:34 the moment that you realize, we have 20 more minutes, let’s forget the subject of the talk and speak about Human Footprint on earth! Really!!!!

  • @smiechu47
    @smiechu47 Před 6 lety +1

    It was interesting until the point when he started talking about the footprint. Guess what, my amygdala doesn't care.

  • @awesoome
    @awesoome Před 2 lety

    Stop 🛑 reading the comments and focus on the video ✋🏼

  • @HassanuddinKasim
    @HassanuddinKasim Před 6 lety +1

    damn i lost focus.

  • @hanter4898
    @hanter4898 Před 3 lety

    "Intelligente warrior 69"

  • @asapb
    @asapb Před 3 měsíci

    no mention of the presenter yall sure are funny

  • @user-jg4mu6vn5e
    @user-jg4mu6vn5e Před 3 lety

    Bad hunter 97

  • @meio4744
    @meio4744 Před 8 lety +3

    Is it just me or is this talk all over the place - it ends with discussion about global warming what?

    • @galinaa.schwartz2
      @galinaa.schwartz2 Před 8 lety

      +mo O it is you, and me too. ==> it is all over the place. but still leave a good overall feel.

    • @Deleted_Account_2023
      @Deleted_Account_2023 Před 8 lety

      +mo O Yeah... I was wondering about the same thing haha!

  • @YoLninYo
    @YoLninYo Před 7 lety

    Nothing irks me more than people who use an obscure abbreviation define it once in the beginning and then keep talking about it for the next 25 minutes... LCA... LCA blah blah blah LCA

  • @daveatlw
    @daveatlw Před 4 lety

    .

  • @paulocgrf
    @paulocgrf Před 7 lety

    51:16 - Instruction CDs for kids

  • @susancappello5213
    @susancappello5213 Před 3 lety +1

    I lost interest so much I started reading the reviews to see if it was just me. The comments are hilarious and kept my attention better than the lecture.