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24 alternatives to Activate Your Brain

How understanding your brain can improve your work, and you

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Activate Your Brain launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long▲63

   What neuroscience knows about your productive life.

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Healthy Brain, Happy Life▲69

   Activate your brain and do everything better

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Effective Thinking▲127

   Become more successful through better thinking

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Smarter Than You Think▲128

   How tech boosts our cognitive abilities

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   The Science of Practice▲119

   How to rewire your brain for performance, from Hardbound

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain▲69

   Our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   This Is Your Brain on Music▲63

   Exploring the connection between music and the human brain

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   How To Be Productive▲70

   Discover the proven productivity factors for a better you

   2016 · beproductive.teachable.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Brain Rules▲69

   12 principles for surviving and thriving at work

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Mindset▲84

    How You Can Fulfil Your Potential

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Show Your Work ▲58

    Ten Ways To Show Your Creativity and Get Discovered!

    2015 · austinkleon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Smarter Faster Better▲83

    The secrets of being productive in life and business

    2016 · hudsonbooksellers.com · its alternatives →

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    Metaphors We Live By▲58

    How your brain uses metaphor to understand the world

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    How to Find Fulfilling Work▲61

    An inspirational guide to examining your career

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Brain Fog Fix▲73

    Reclaim your focus

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking ▲82

    Learn how to become more successful through better thinking.

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Reclaim Your Brain▲67

    How to calm your thoughts, heal your mind

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Smarter Faster Better▲72

    Use the science of productivity to get better at life

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Show Your Work!▲84

    10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Branded Mind▲57

    What neuroscience really tells us about the brain

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot▲62

    How to go about improving our mental apparatus

    2017 · fs.blog · its alternatives →

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    The Art of Work▲69

    A proven path to discovering what you were meant to do

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Wandering Mind▲71

    What the brain does when you're not looking

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    How the Mind Works▲71

    Tackles the workings of the human mind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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