About the book
Bring More Brain to Every Decision That Matters
You're still performing. The question is whether you can keep performing this way.
You reread the same email and still miss the point.
A decision that used to take minutes now sits on your list for days.
You leave a meeting and struggle to remember what was decided.
You have less patience with your team, and at 3 a.m. your brain is already working through tomorrow.
So you push harder. More coffee. Longer hours. More effort.
But pushing harder does not mean your brain is working better.
In my doctoral research, I interviewed leaders about decision-making during crisis. These were experienced, capable people who knew what to do. Under pressure, the problem was not a lack of knowledge.
In the moment, they could not always access what they knew.
These are not failures of character.
They are failures of access.
I know this personally. Many years ago, I fell down a flight of stairs and ended up in the ICU. At the time, I had two-year-old twin boys, and life was full. I was not doing much reading, so I did not realize anything had changed.
It was a couple of years later, when I began reading more again, that I noticed something was different. Reading was harder. Processing took more effort. What had once come easily no longer did.
That experience changed the way I understood the brain.
We often label what we are feeling as stress, exhaustion, or burnout and stop there. But sometimes the better question is: What is keeping you from accessing the clarity, energy, and ability you know are still there?
That is the journey behind Brain On Game On.
Stop guessing. Understand what your brain needs, turn it back on, and get your game back.
