A Job Recruiter Can Boost Your Search

A Job Recruiter Can Boost Your SearchA Job Recruiter Can Boost Your SearchWe hear a lot about what the latest employment numbers mean for employers Business is up, prompting companies to create more positions and hire more people. So if the demand is higher than the supply of candidates, do you need to find a job recruiter?Yes, if you want a partner to give your search a boost and land a job thatll be the best fit for you.Ive worked with candidates for more than 20 years, recruiting them for roles in a variety of industries, from manufacturing and healthcare to financial services and public accounting firms. One of the first things I learned is that navigating through the volumes of online postings to conduct a thorough search is hugely time consuming. And even if time isnt an issue for you, its likely you cant access information and openings on your own that the best recruiters have.Here are some of the other advantages of working with a specialized staffing agency when youre lookin g for a job in finance and accounting. Recruiters can do the following for youGive you access to positions not posted on job boardsThe best recruiters cast wider nets, with their extensive networks and long-term relationships with their client companies. That helps you find career opportunities that might not even be advertised.Match your career objectives with their client companiesRecruiters typically have insights into the companies and the openings theyre trying to fill. When they talk to you about your qualifications, work history and skill set, and discuss whether they fit with the role and the job description, they can match you with the accounting and finance role that best suits you.Help manage and speed up the job search processNot only do recruiters know which companies are looking for new employees they can help accelerate the hiring process. They can help you target your search and schedule interviews with hiring managers.Offer career guidance and feedback Recruiters ca n provide employment advice, interview tips, resume suggestions and more. If youre not chosen for a position, its tough for you to find out why, but recruiters can often give you feedback to help you strategize for your next opportunity.Share salary information for negotiationRecruiters know the market rates for the jobs youre looking for. They can also give you tips to help you negotiate your salary with your potential employer.Visit the Robert Half Salary Center, where youll be able to adjust salary ranges for your city with the Salary Calculator, and get your own copy of the Salary Guide.Help you reach your career goalsOf course, theres no guarantee youll get hired, even if you work with a job recruiter. But it cant hurt to have a one-on-one relationship with an industry specialist who not only has access to a large professional network but is also committed to your success.Here are some questions you might haveDo candidates have to pay their job recruiter? At Robert Half Financi al Accounting, services are free for registered candidates. Fees are paid by client companies.How do you find a recruiter who specializes in finance and accounting? You can begin the process by applying for a job on the staffing agencys website. You can also contact the nearest sekretariat location to schedule an in-person, confidential interview with a finance recruiting professional.WORK WITH OUR RECRUITERSEven in todays labor market, its not easy to pinpoint the perfect position and then persuade the employer that youre the one. Getting a new job, whether its your first or your 15th, can be a challenging experience. When you work with a recruiter, youre not alone in your search.Who knows? In a few months, you could be working at a job you love. Grace Fidalgo Grace Fidalg o is vice president at Robert Half Finance Accounting, North America. Shes worked as a staffing manager and branch manager for Accountemps and division director and field training manager for Robert Half Finance Accounting.

The real reason your boss lacks emotional intelligence

The real reason your boss lacks emotional intelligenceThe real reason your boss lacks emotional intelligenceOver the past century, the heartless, no-nonsense CEO has become something of an icon- and a clich- in American society. Hollywood would have us believe that the Machiavellian chief exec is still alive and well.But thats just TV, right? How about in the real world? Do businesses still allow behauptung inhumane relics to survive?Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moraTo find out,TalentSmartanalyzed the emotional intelligence (EQ) profiles of the million-plus people in our database- workers from the frontlines to the C-suite. We discovered that the answer is yes, organizations today do promote the emotionally inept except when they dont. Allow me to explain.We found that EQ scores climb with titles from the bottom of the corporate ladder upward toward middle management. Middle man agers stand out with the highest EQ scores in the workplace because companies tend to promote people into these positions who are level-headed and good with people. The assumption here is that a manager with a high EQ is someone for whom people will want to work.But things change drastically as you move beyond middle management.For the titles of director and above, scores descend faster than a snowboarder on a black diamond. CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.The trick is,for every title in the graph above, the top performers are those with the highest EQ scores.Even though CEOs have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace, the best-performing CEOs are those with the highest EQs. You might get promoted with a low EQ, but you wont outshine your high-EQ competition in your new role.The higher you go above middle management, the more companies focus on metrics to make hiring and promotion decisions. While these short-term, bottom-line indicators are important, i ts shortsighted to make someone a senior leader because of recent monetary achievements. Possibly worse than metrics, companies also promote leaders for their knowledge and tenure, rather than their skill in inspiring others to excel.Companies sell themselves short by selecting leaders who arent well-rounded enough to perform at the highest levels for the long term.Once leaders get promoted they enter an environment that tends to erode their emotional intelligence. They spend less time in meaningful interactions with their staff and lose sight of how their emotional states impact those around them. Its so easy to get out of touch that leaders EQ levels sink further. It truly is lonely at the top.Whether youre a leader now or may become one in the future, you dont have to succumb to this trend. Your emotional intelligence is completely under your control. Work on your EQ and it will boost your wertzuwachs now. Your effort can also ensure that you dont experience declines as you climb the corporate ladder. Even if your employer promotes you for the wrong reasons, youll still outperform your contemporaries.To help you get started, here are some of my favorite EQ-boosting strategies for leaders. They apply to anyone, so give them a try, even if youre not a leader (yet).Acknowledge Other Peoples FeelingsAssertive, action-oriented executives dont exactly ignore other peoples feelings. What they tend to do instead is to marginalize them or fix them so that they dont get in the way of action. While some have suggested that this is a predominantly male problem, it can more accurately be described as a power problem. People who fail to acknowledge other peoples feelings fail to realize that lingering emotions inhibit effective action. So the next time you notice someone on your team expressing a strong emotion, ask him or her about it. Then listen intently and play back what you have just heard in summary form. By validating their emotions, youll help them feel understo od so that they can move forward without hindrance.Watch Your Emotions Like A HawkThe techniques above are extremely effective, but both require an awareness of your own emotions in the moment. You may think you have a world-class poker face, but if youre like the average executive, your weakest self-awareness skills are understanding how your emotions impact others and recognizing the role you have played in creating difficult circumstances. In other words, you would become a much more effective leader if you obtained a better understanding of what you feel, when you feel it. Practice this by taking notice of your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors just as a situation unfolds. The goal is to slow yourself down and take in all that is in front of you, so that you can understand how your emotions influence your behavior and alter your perception of reality.Dont Hold GrudgesThe negative emotions that come with holding-gesellschaft onto a grudge are actually a stress response. Just thin king about the event sends your body into fight-or-flight mode, a survival mechanism that forces you to stand up and fight or run for the hills when faced with a threat. When the threat is imminent, this reaction is essential to your survival, but when the threat is ancient history, holding onto that stress wreaks havoc on your body and can have devastating health consequences over time. In fact, researchers at Emory University have shown that holding onto stress contributes to high blood pressure and heart disease. Holding onto a grudge means youre holding onto stress, and emotionally intelligent people know to avoid this at all costs. Letting go of a grudge not only makes you feel better now but can also improve your health.SleepIve beaten this one to death over the years and cant say enough about the importance of sleep to increasing your emotional intelligence and improving your relationships. Your self-control, attention, and memory are all reduced when you dont get enough- or the right kind- of sleep. Sleep deprivation also raises stress hormone levels on its own, even without a stressor present. The pressure that leaders are under often makes them feel as if they dont have time to sleep, but not taking the time to get a decent nights sleep is often the one thing keeping you from getting things under control.Quash Negative Self-TalkA big step in developing emotional intelligence involves stopping negative self-talk in its tracks. The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our negative thoughts are just that- thoughts, not facts. When you find yourself believing the negative and pessimistic things your inner voice says, its time to stop and write them down. Literally stop what youre doing and write down what youre thinking. Once youve taken a moment to slow down the negative momentum of your thoughts, you will be more rational and clear-headed in evaluating their veracity.You can bet that your statements arent true a ny time you use words like never, worst, ever, etc. If your statements still look like facts once theyre on paper, take them to a friend or colleague you trust and see if he or she agrees with you. Then the truth will surely come out. When it feels like something always or never happens, this is just your brains natural threat tendency inflating the perceived frequency or severity of an event. Identifying and labeling your thoughts as thoughts by separating them from the facts will help you escape the cycle of negativity and move toward a positive new outlook.When You Care, Show ItThis might be the easiest thing you can do- as long as you actually do it. Good leaders always notice when people on their teams are doing good work, but they dont often show it. When you appreciate something that another person does, let him or her know about it. Even a quick email or pat on the back goes a long way in this regard. There are people who do great work around you every day. Dont put off lett ing them know how you feel about it. Your praise will build fierce loyalty and inspire your people to work even harder.Bringing It All TogetherIs your employer perpetuating this trend, or are they bucking it by developing high-EQ leadership? Do you know high-EQ leaders who outshine the rest? Share your experiences in the comments section below, and lets have a conversation about this important topic.Dr. Travis Bradberryis the award-winning co-author of the 1 bestselling book,Emotional Intelligence 2.0,and the cofounder ofTalentSmart, the worlds leading provider ofemotional intelligence testsandtraining, serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Dr. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by,Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, andThe Harvard Business Review.This article first appeared on L inkedIn.

Prepare for Baby Boomer Employees with Acquired Disabilities

Prepare for Baby Boomer Employees with Acquired DisabilitiesPrepare for Baby Boomer Employees with Acquired DisabilitiesPrepare for Baby Boomer Employees with Acquired Disabilities HasseProductive baby boomers are now choosing to continue to work on a part-time basis, even though they are already retired. Thats no big secret.But, as a recruiter, HR professional or hiring manager, you may notlage have thought about the implications of this shift in the employee landscape. These talented retirees who come back to work may have acquired a disability along the way and, as a result, require some workplace accommodations.The Impact of Aging BoomersHeres why, during the coming decades, every job sector in the US is going to have a growing number of baby boomers with disabilities on the pay roll demographics and economics.Each of the first three decades of the 21st. Century will add 25 million more Americans over age 65, according to Older Population by Age 19002050, US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.And, according to the US Census Bureau, about 56 percent of women and about 45 percent of men who are 65 years old or older have some schriftart of disability.Disability often comes with age. The number of people in the US who are blind, for example, is expected to double to at least 19.2 million in the 32 years between 1998 and 2030, according to a 2007 Lou Harris poll conducted for Lighthouse International.And, these aging baby boomers may be headed for a financial crisis, because they have saved, on average, only 12 percent of what they believe they will need to meet basic living expenses during retirement, a crisis that will cause them to delay or interrupt their retirement to bring in an income (Allstate Financial Retirement Reality Check) Reveals Financial Crisis for Baby Boomers Heading into Retirement, PR Newswire.)Also remember this The age for eligibility for Social Security retirement benefits is going up incrementally. That age will eventually climb from 62 to 67, with a substantial reduction in benefits for early retirees. During the next couple of decades, your employees wont be taking early retirement nearly at the same rate as they have in recent years.Rehire the Best TalentAs an employer, you will be in a position to leverage this need to work by not only retaining experienced workers but also bringing retired workers back to fill short-term needs. Youll likely find yourself tapping into minds that do not necessarily fail with age.If you have laid off a bunch of people or reduced the overall size of your staff during the Great Recession, you now might need extra help in special situations or a little special expertise on special projects.You will find it extremely economical to rehire the best talent. This will especially be true of those who only recently retired from doing high-level work for you at significant salaries. Many will be willing to come back part-time or on a contract basis in what are increasingly termed retirement jobs for much less than they earned before retirement and with scaled-down or no benefit packages to drain your coffers.Clearly not all of the over-65 workers you eventually retain, rehire, or add to your work force will be disabled, but it is likely you will be increasingly required to address a range of workplace accessibility issues.One way to counteract the economic impact of more workers who are older and who have a disability is to create a workplace now that is inclusive of disability. Another way is to help your colleagues become literate about the adaptations that can be made to remove the impact of disability within your workplace.Remember, the worker who becomes disabled due to age will not be like the disabled workers you are hiring now. Workers who do not regard themselves as disabled (but who do need assistance) may not be familiar with the many adaptive tools that they can use to keep working productively. It will largely be up to you, as an employer, to prepare for this eventuality.Younger disabled people are more likely to self-identify as individuals who happen to have a disability. These younger people are less likely to regard vulnerability as an obstacle to work. They are more likely to be aware of (and have used) adaptive technology, such as scooters, crutches, and screen readers. They are more likely to have experienced working while being disabled.By contrast, the older adult, for instance, who starts losing vision due to age, identifies herself as an older person but not as a visually impaired individual. It is common to hear older people deny their blindness, even if they are, by definition, legally blind. They will say, I just dont see as well as I used to. They do not know there are ways around visual impairment. They may not be aware that visual impairment does not mean an inability to keep working.And they almost certainly will not be as knowledgeable about the tools to gain access to information a nd to carry out on-the-job tasks.At the onset of a disability, the current emphasis is on helping older adults to achieve skills so they can stay independent but not to send them back to work. Therefore, it may very well fall to you to be the one in the know about what an existing or returning older employee who has a disability can do to stay on the job.Building disability awarenessand developing inclusive hiring and advancement practices into your business now will allow you to be adept at such challenges before they become critical in the years ahead.Hire younger workers with a disability now as you look to recruit top talent. /hr/hr-best-practices/recruiting-hiring-advice/acquiring-job-candidates/emotional-intelligence.aspx They will help you pave the way within your organization for retaining or rehiring your most valuable employees on perhaps a part-time basis, even though they are retired and have a disability.Adapted from Perfectly Able How to Attract and Hire Talented Peop le with Disabilities by Lighthouse International. Compiled and edited by Jim Hasse. Copyright 2010 Lighthouse International. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Author BioJim Hasse, an Accredited Business Communicator and auf der ganzen welt Career Development Facilitator, is the owner of Hasse Communication Counseling in Madison, WI, a company he founded that helps people with disabilities gain the confidence they need to develop meaningful careers for themselves and perform effectively in their jobs.

Financial experts share the best money advice theyve received

Financial experts share the best money advice theyve receivedFinancial experts share the best money advice theyve receivedOver the years, you may have gotten money advice from various people, from yur parents to a certified financial planner (CFP). However, until you implement that advice, its hard to know what will work for you.Theres a lot of different financial advice out there, and too much can be overwhelming and demotivating, Andrea Woroch, a consumer expert, told Business Insider in an email. In order to be successful in improving your financial situation, follow and apply tips that fit your current lifestyle.For instance, she said that it may not be possible to pay off your leistungspunkt card balance in full every month if youre on a limited income, but you may be able to consolidate your debt using a low-interest personal loan to save on interest.Below, financial experts share 11 tips about the best money advice theyve ever received. (The responses have been edited for leng th and clarity.)1. Live on less than you makeOne of the best pieces of money advice is to live below your means. Everyone has different income levels, savings, debt, etc., yet everyone wants to impress others and keep up with the Joneses.But thats a quick way to end up in a lot of debt. Instead, people should prioritize saving and investing for the future - things that can help you reach financial freedom - over upgrading your car or house just because you want to.A lot of people have little or no savings due to overspending on unnecessary upgrades. These people can end up in trouble if theyre faced with an unexpected job loss or other emergency.- Todd Kunsman, marketing and growth, Invested Wallet2. Always use cashInvestments are fine, but always have cash if you need it. This advice is from my late father, a child of the Great Depression. Its kept me out of major trouble in the past and is solid advice for both individuals and businesses.- James Stefurak, CFA, founder/editor, The Invoice Factoring Guide3. Take willpower out of your saving habits by setting up automatic transferWhen you set up an automatic transfer, you take willpower out of the equation, and it makes saving effortless and consistent.Make it even easier using an app like STASH, which helps you save automatically by analyzing your spending and earning patterns. The app learns when you have extra cash to spare and, little by little, money is saved into your STASH account, where it earns interest until you decide to invest it or put it toward one of your goals.- Andrea Woroch, consumer expert4. Start saving while you are youngThe number one most common mistake I see young people make is that they think they dont need to departure saving until they get older. This is completely wrong.Getting an early start on savings can pay off in a big way. The gift of time and compound interest is one of the greatest you can give yourself.Compounding happens when earnings on your contributions get reinves ted to generate their own earnings, which also get reinvested to create more earnings, and so on.Over time, compounding can add a lot of fuel to the growth of your savings. For example, if you invest just $100 a month, over 40 years you will have put aside $48,000, but it will actually be worth about $186,000 (assuming about 6% annual return). If you can save $125 a month, after 40 years, youll have $232,000- Kate Ryan, wealth management advisor with TIAA5. Invest 15% of your salary in a simple portfolioSome of the best money advice I ever received welches through a written piece from investing expert William Bernstein that only took me about 10 minutes to read. Its called If You Can.In the article, Bernstein presents extremely simple but very powerful steps that anyone can take to (potentially) outperform 90% of finance professionals and retire a millionaire.The advice is simple Save 15% of your salary and invest it in a simple portfolio. What makes this exciting and challenging i snt the advice, but the execution.- Uri Pomerantz, CEO of Twine6. Do not increase your spending when you get a raisePay yourself first Far too often, we fall victim to lifestyle creep, where we raise our standard of living to match our income when what we should be doing is raising our standard of saving to match our income. When you get a raise, pay yourself first- Chad Rixse, co-founder, Millennial Wealth7. Look at your leistungspunkt reportAs a young man with a good job and a mortgage, I was disappointed when I was repeatedly turned down for the credit cards I wanted. My financial advisor suggested that I take a look at my credit report, something I hadnt done in years. I was shocked to see not one, not two, but three large collection accounts in my name. It looked like I was a deadbeat to the tune of five figuresTurns out, another Mark Fidelman wasnt as good as paying his bills as I was, and his financial failures were showing up on my credit report. It took me three months to get the faulty collection accounts removed, but my credit score rose over 125 points.- Mark Fidelman, personal finance expert and CMO at free online financial resource MoneyTips.com8. Make the most of your credit card pointsThe first lesson I learned about travel loyalty programs is that if you are creative and willing to experiment, you can stack up rewards almost everywhere.In college, I spent time flying back and forth between California and Ohio. Growing up, my family was poor, so I started looking for ways to cut my travel costs using airline miles.In my search, I found that a regional grocery store was offering bonus miles after spending a certain amount on groceries. Needless to say, I signed up everyone in my family who had the card with my frequent flyer number, which quickly turned into discounted flights.That year the promotion went on, we all saved a little money - on gas through grocery store discounts, on groceries with local promotions, and even on flights.- Joe C ortez, NerdWallet credit card points and miles expert9. Dont work for money let money work for youOne of the best pieces of advice I got about money is to not work for money - instead, let money work for you. Too many times, people get stuck in the cycle of just banking their money in a savings account.While it is OK to put some into an emergency savings account, getting to your savings or retirement goal will take much longer this way. Instead, put that money to work. This means investing in 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, brokerage accounts, real estate, etc.You want your money making you more money while you sleep.- Todd Kunsman, marketing and growth, Invested Wallet10. Save every $5 billSave every $5 bill you come across, and put it in an envelope. After a year, youll be surprised by how much youve saved.- Paris Chevalier, chief marketing officer at Xceed Financial Credit Union11. Always save for a rainy dayThe best money advice I received is from my grandmother, who said, Always save fo r a rainy day, because nothing lasts forever and nothing stays the same.I developed some health challenges that prevented me from working for a few years. Luckily, I had taken her advice and had accumulated savings that allowed me to recover without having to worry about how I was going to pay my monthly expenses.Saving for a rainy day makes any transition much easier to absprache with - you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you handle it.- Harrine Freeman, 40, financial expert and CEO/owner of H.E. Freeman EnterprisesThis article first appeared on Business Insider.

What to Ask When Your Ideas at Work Get Shot Down - The Muse

What to Ask When Your Ideas at Work Get Shot Down - The MuseWhat to Ask When Your Ideas at Work Get Shot Down I wish I could tell you that your manager will always love your ideas. But unfortunately, as you probably already know, thats not the case. And whenever she shoots something down, youll want to deliver a monologue along the lines of, Youre missing the brilliance behind my thinking and should be taken to a hospital. Or, you might let yourself believe that youre a failure and that you should just quit now. Or you might even lash out and holler about how they never listen to you. As cathartic as those reactions might feel, none of them are actually productive. To help you move on and learn from every rejection, make these phrases a regular part of your vocabulary.1. What Would Make You Say Yes to This Idea?Your idea is toast when your manager shuts it down, right? Well, it doesnt have to be. Your original thinking mightve been off the mark, but that doesnt mean there isnt anythi ng worth salvaging from it. And chances are, your anfhrer would agree with with that.So instead of accepting defeat, ask questions like What would make you say yes? and Is there any part of the idea that did resonate? Those answers will help you understand what worked and what didnt. Then, use that feedback to come up with something else thats more impactful and even more difficult for your boss to shake her head at.2. Thanks for Your Feedback, Would it Make Sense for Me to Bring it Up Again in a Few Weeks/Months?Its worth saying this again, so I will Youre smart, you bring a lot to the table, and you have a lot of good ideas. But nobody on the face of the planet has ever had 100% of their ideas implemented. At the same time, it doesnt necessarily mean that theyre bad. Ive lost count of the number of times my manager has said to me, This is interesting, but we have bigger fish to fry. Lets revisit this in the future.But why not now, right? After all, you havent presented something r idiculous. Why cant your manager move things around to accommodate you? Re-read those questions and think about how they sound. Would you respond in kind to someone who made this much of a push?Instead, simply thank your manager for the feedback and ask if theres a specific time period during which she feels you could explore it further. Youll be able to gauge from her response whether shes genuinely into the idea or just avoiding shutting you down altogether.3. What Should I Focus on Instead?You could very easily shut down after you, well, get shut down. It might even feel like you dont have anything else worth working on, especially now that your idea is off the table. But its also important to remember that you mucksmuschenstill have plenty of other things to do at work. And even though your manager said no thanks, Im willing to bet that she has bigger priorities on her plate that she could use your help with. So, instead of pouting, find out what you can be working on instead. T his response will show her that youre truly a team player, even when youve been shut down. And if and when there is a fit for one of your brilliant ideas, your boss will remember just how helpful you are and make sure you get the resources needed to accomplish it.So far, weve talked about what to do when your idea gets shot down. And thats a great start. But are you still feeling like you should keep your big mouth shut? Does it seem easier to keep your thoughts to yourself, especially if your boss always says no to your ideas? I hope you dont buy into that idea.Raising your hand (either literally or metaphorically) takes guts. And every time you do it, it gets a little easier and a little less scary. So dont stop speaking up. Instead, push yourself to turn every single rejection into a lesson. Eventually, youll get so good at pitching your ideas that theyll be (almost) impossible to turn down.

The Bizarre Secret of Cv 6

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Think Slow and Other Tricks for Better Problem-Solving

Think Slow and Other Tricks for Better Problem-Solving Article by Sam EiflingAs a kid, I welches the sort of nerd who got serious about quiz bowl. During my senior year of high school, I was on a team that advanced to the state playoffs. In college, at a Big Ten university, I was on a team that traveled the Midwest playing other teams of fast-twitch buzzer-mashers.Whereas some players had deep recall of Russian novels or the periodic table, I tended to skate by on loose-ends trivia pop culture, sports, the occasional lucky stab at U.S. history. By the time I was old enough to drink, I was a solid bar-trivia player. In a weekly pub game, I once nailed down a win by correctly naming the capital of Uganda (Kampala) on the final question. A different night, a new teammate and I simultaneously blurted the answer apogee to a question about the moons orbit. Smitten, I asked her out, and we dated for the rest of the summer.Like I said nerd.That was years ago, though, before Google even existed long before everyone toted around wireless supercomputers that fit in ur jeans. These days, any worthwhile trivia night strives to be at least partially Google-proof because huge swaths of the worlds loose knowledge have been rounded up and cataloged by the most complex network of machines ever devised. The instant recall of facts, formerly a marker of elite intelligence or at least the image of it, has become an affectation. You want to know the capital of Uganda? Two keywords in a search bar is all you need to get the answer faster than you could even ask the question. Quick recall is now a parlor trick, like grabbing a live fly out of midair or uncapping a beer bottle with a folded dollar bill. An intelligence predicated on stockpiling facts is outmoded, nave. Look what happened in the past 20 years to card catalogs, road atlases, and Rolodexes. The databanking that got you through multiple-choice tests no longer secures your relevance. Just a sk a phone book.But these are also heady days to examine the way you think, if youre willing Neuroscience and the rise of artificial intelligence (more on that later) have given us new insights into the interplay between the mind and the brain, two interlocking (but sometimes competing) parts of ourselves.For those of us who have long conflated a facile memory with actual smarts, though, analyzing our own thought habits is about as enticing as counting carbs or auditing leistungspunkt card bills. Some routines are so entrenched that drilling into them requires a confrontation with the ego especially if youre the sort who considers themselves a good thinker. This most likely describes most people, in part because they give so little thought to the matter. If you werent good at thinking, well, wouldnt that catch up with you? Surely, yes, of course ergo, theres no need to think about the matter any further. But if you did, being such a good thinker, would you bedrngnis, askoranversdl y, come up with a way to improve your thinking even further?In his new book,Winning the Brain Game Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking, Matthew E. May sets out a convincing case that no one much likes to examine the ways they think in part because were all so conditioned to receiving cheap rewards for quick answers that we scarcely bother to do much real thinking at all. May explains that hes the sort of guy whos hired by companies large and small to stump workers and executives with brain teasers. This sounds like great work if you can get it, and the way May writes about these sessions breezily, almost like a street magician recalling audiences he has stumped makes him sound like a guy who genuinely has hacked into something fundamental about being a partie in the 21st century We have access to so much external knowledge that weve forgotten how to ask ourselves decent questions. School rewards answers fast ones. Work rewards productivity, which is predicated usually on finding paths of least resistance.Mays enduring thesis, and one thats hard to debate, is that weve been conditioned by a lifetime of what amounts to trivia contests to mistake the regurgitation of facts for the act of thinking. May argues that, actually, the rote recall of information or the obligatory regurgitation of possible solutions at top speed takes place somewhere outside the analytical mind. In other words, it is an act less intellectual and more glandular in nature.Our brains are amazing pattern machines making, recognizing, and acting on patterns developed from our experience and grooved over time, May writes. Following those grooves makes us ever so efficient as we go about our day. The challenge is this if left to its own devices, the brain locks in on patterns, and its difficult to escape the gravitational pull of embedded memory in bestellung to see things in an altogether new light.This strikes me as likely true. Those of us who went through American schools have been con ditioned to rely on those patterned responses for decades. Looking back, the best quiz bowl players always buzzed in before the proctor finished reading the question.***In his day job, May prods groups in any project to reach for what he calls elegant solutions. By and large, those are the simplest, cheapest, least-intrusive, most-effective changes you can make to a system. Lesser solutions, he finds, tend to trade quality for speed. He insists that many of the reasons we fail to find elegant solutions are self-inflicted. We overthink a problem, or we jump to conclusions, or we decide after a few minutes of mumbly debate that weve come up with a solid B-minus answer, and then were ready to move on to the next emergency. A less charitable author might describe those pitfalls themselves as lazy, but realistically, theyre the shortcuts we all use to navigate the zillion gnat-like tasks that drain our attention. You make mistakes and compromises because your brain has evolved over eons to value functional near-facts over perfectly crystalline truths. And often, the good enough is so-called for a reason. Duct tape and Taco Bell are revered for a reason.InWinning the Brain Game, May describes a brain teaser he presented to a team composed of bomb technicians from the Los Angeles Police Department, the sort of group whose members regard themselves as unflappable thinkers and decision-makers. Heres the scenario May posed to them You andrang a fancy health club that in its shower stalls offers fancy shampoo in big bottles that would retail for $50 at a salon. Unshockingly, these big bottles often go the way of a hotel bathrobe Members take them home at a distressing rate, costing you. What solution can you devise that will be unintrusive, cheap or free, and protect your inventory?Yes, sure, you could switch to travel bottles or force guests to check the shampoo out, but these will complicate operations at your otherwise immaculate and successful health club, so think h arder.May says the employees at the real-life club this problem is based on figured out an unintrusive and simple solution that cost no money. It is a solution any bright child could devise and yet, the bomb techs didnt arrive at it in their few minutes talking over the problem (and neither did I as I read the book). In a health club where people are stashing a big ol bottle of fancy shampoo in their gym bags on their way out, it turns out merely uncapping the bottles, is one heck of a deterrent.May writes that when groups tackle this problem, he sees all seven of the categories of thinking mistakes he lays out in the book. To summarize them as a holistic piece of advice for how to think smarter Be more deliberate. Ask many questions before deciding on an answer. Do leid accept a sloppy solution because it is easy. Do not talk yourself out of great ideas. Do not reject solutions because someone else came up with them.All of this sounds rightly agreeable when laid out in those terms . No one thinks of themselves as a sloppy thinker, but then, such is the tautology a careful thinker would already know the pitfalls in their own process. Even then, history is littered with terrible ideas that lasted for very long periods of time. As Carl Sagan wrote of the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy inCosmos,his Earth-centered universe held sway for 1,500 years, a reminder that intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong.The more you force yourself to think slowly, the more likely your brain becomes to engage that gear.Its freeing to realize youre probably, profoundly, deeply wrong about something you believe very much. Freeing, because it gives you permission to think intently on what exactly that might be. Were all victims of our hard-wiring, you see, and May revels in citing studies in neuroscience and behavioral psychology that point to our flaws, as well as our ability to overcome them.The brain is passive hardware, absorbing experience, and the mind is active software, directing our attention, May writes. But not just any software its intelligent software, capable of rewiring the hardware. I could not have said that with confidence a few decades ago, but modern science is a wonderful thing.This is, in a nutshell, the value of bothering to bother. The more you force yourself to think slowly, the more likely your brain becomes to engage that gear.***To help you engage your slow thinking, May builds his book largely the same way he sets up his seminars around sinister Mensa-style riddles that make you aware of how inflexible youve let your brain become. Most are incredibly simple, which is what makes them so humbling. The favorite here is the classic Monty Hall problem, a distillation of the crux of the show Lets Make a Deal. In a book called Winning the Brain Game, this particular puzzler feels like a required stop.The old game show climaxed with a logic puzzle folded into a game of chance. You, the contestant, were offered the choice of three doors. Behind one door was a fabulous prize say, a car. Behind two doors were booby prizes in the classic arrangement, goats. When you chose a door, the host, Monty Hall, would karenz before revealing what was behind it. He would open one of the remaining two doors to show you a goat. Hed then ask Do you want to stick with your original door, or switch?Strangely, this innocuous question, raised many times over the years but most notably in a 1991 Parade Magazine column, creates genuine havoc. May takes glee in recounting the fallout from the solution offered by columnist Marilyn vos Savant that one should always switch doors. Professional mathematicians at the time wrote in to upbraid her for numerical illiteracy, insisting it was a 50/50 proposition. Even after vos Savant was vindicated and previously incensed Ph.D.s wrote in with mea culpas, the spat echoed for years. When The New York Times revisited the logic problem in 2008, for instance, the paper built an o nline video game for readers to play for goats and cars, to keep score over many tries. And sure enough, you click on enough doors, you learn to switch.The reason could scarcely be simpler. When you choose one door, you leave two doors for Monty. At least one of those doors must by definition have a goat, and at the turn, hell always show you a goat but then, you had to know he always has a goat to show. Theres a two-in-three chance that you didnt pick the car when you chose your door. When he offers to trade the closed door for your closed door, hes effectively giving you both of the doors you passed on with your original choice.Two for one. A two-thirds chance of winning. By switching doors, you raise the possibility of winning a car by 100 percent. And still this strikes many people as counterintuitive. When you hold onto that first door, it somehow seems more likely to hold a car. The decision to stay, May writes, is easy and lets you rest without scrutinizing the actual odds.A Harvard University statistics professor, Persi Diaconis, told Times reporter John Tierney in a 1991 story about the fracas that our brains are just not wired to do probability problems very well, so Im not surprised there were mistakes.Such a simple little trap is the Monty Hall problem, and yet its very name was coined in a 1976 paper written for the journal American Statistician. This tiny puzzle is taken very seriously. Your intellectual capacity is no protection against being wrong.***At some point in the near future, robots will pfotele a lot of the rote chores (and even deep intellectual efforts) that sap us on a given day. Even now, artificial intelligence (AI) researchers are grappling with the ways computer intelligence built to perform a specific job might hack that task, in a nearly human fashion, by rearranging its priorities to derive the largest reward under its programming. In a paper published this past June titled Concrete Problems in AI Safety, a team of AI resear chers, including three from Google, forecast both the workarounds that a hypothetical housecleaning robot would devise to satisfy its assignments and the pitfalls of those workarounds. Oddly, several of them sound like what any teacher or boss would have to deal with when working with a petulant or nervous teenager. How do you keep robots from breaking things or getting in peoples ways as they rush to finish their jobs? How do you keep them from asking too many questions?The most human concern, to me, is how we keep robots from gaming the rewards system.For example, if our cleaning robot is set up to earn reward for not seeing any messes, it might simply close its eyes rather than ever cleaning anything up, the researchers write. Or if the robot is rewarded for cleaning messes, it may intentionally create work so it can earn more reward.This is a complex question, one that examines much of what we take for granted as a basic social contract. Taken literally, though, it points to the problem of fixation, of setting monomaniacal goals. A cleaning robot that believes its use of bleach is a good measure for how much work it has done might simply bleach everything it encounters.In the economics literature, the AI researchers write, this is known as Goodharts law When a metric is used as a target, it ceases to be a good metric.The stated goal, in other words, is rarely the actual goal.Yet we all set goals, and Mays business is to help us figure out how to reach them. At times, Mays framework betrays how accustomed he is to working for big corporate clients who no doubt respond best when employees and middle managers are told to ignore all limits on the way to greatness. May enrolls for this exercise a 60-something potato farmer named Cliff Young who, in 1983, entered an ultramarathon in Australia, a 542-mile zulauf from Sydney to Melbourne. Shabbily attired, unsponsored and untrained, Young nonetheless managed to beat a field of professional runners by 10 hours over five days. Why? Well, he apparently had become ludicrously fit by scampering around his farm chasing livestock over the years. But to Mays point, Young simply had no idea the conventions of the sport held that runners should sleep six hours a night during the race. May writes In fact, his navet in all likelihood enabled him to win in the manner he did because he didnt know it couldnt be done, he was empowered to do it.Thats an amazing example, though it does overlook the many, many, many things considered impossible because they are, in fact, firmly impossible. More inspiring to me, and probably to schlubs everywhere, is the embrace of our natural limits. You free up a lot of mental and emotional bandwidth to do great things when you stop chastising yourself for not being the Cliff Young in this analogy. Yeah, you might wind up running seven-minute miles for the better part of a week and become a folk hero straight from the farm. But more often, youre going to be trying to figure out how not to make an arithmetic error or obvious typo in an schmelzglas to a client when youre in the 10th hour of your workday, wondering whether you should cook dinner or just say to hell with it and stop at Taco Bell on the way home. We all bump up against our limits in different ways, and as it turns out, many of them are real.Inevitably though, the simpler the problem you face, the more likely you are to get it right, and a small, correct thought can be infinitely more valuable than a large, incorrect one, even an incorrect one off by just a few degrees. The lesson I took from Mays analysis Shrink your problems to a size that allows you to think clearly about them. Do this by first asking very good questions. Then, as you build to an answer, be aware of the pitfalls your brain invariably will stumble into as a clumsy instrument of human apprehension. No thought forms in a vacuum most are derived from the leftover crumbs of old thoughts.I experienced this recently when driving to a wedding shower in a suburb of Chicago Id never visited. I turned onto the street of the home I was driving to, saw about 10 cars parked around a driveway and the adjoining street, and thought, This must be the place. It was inane of me to leap to that conclusion without so much as glancing at the house numbers. During a long day of travel in an unfamiliar setting, I reached for an answer that would be comfortingly simple. But in part because I had May on my mind, I was fully prepared to notice why I was messing up and to call myself on it.Knowing when and why our brains take shortcuts (and why we let them) allows us to catch ourselves (our brains?) in the act. It also hones our intuition around when we are, as May terms it, downgrading or satisficing essentially, convincing ourselves to tap out early or just staying in our usual ruts.Its comforting to know that human intelligence, like the artificial intelligences were bringing into the world, is capable of being hacked. Most of what May proposes falls under the heading of habits to cultivate. One trick, though, sits right at hand for any stressful occasion. It begins with seeing oneself impartially, a tendency May traces back to Adam Smiths concept of an impartial and well-informed spectator. In our best moments, most of us hope to be that spectator for ourselves, and one way to accomplish that is to treat ourselves as spectators. May cites a University of Michigan study that found people who addressed themselves in the second person or by their own names (e.g., You got this Sam totally has this) to psych themselves up for a speech did better and felt less anxiety than people who used the first person (e.g., I got this).In a sense, we are our best selves when we leave ourselves momentarily, look back in, and reassure everyone that, having done all we can, its going to be fine, so long as we take our time.A version of this article originally appeared in the November 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and on SUCCESS.com.Sam Eifling is an itinerant American reporter and editor who lives in Brooklyn, New York. His writing and documentary work has appeared in such outlets as theNew Republic,Sports Illustrated, theOxford American,Pacific Standard,Vice, theAssociated Press,The New York Times, andThe Tyee. His newspaper writing has won a Sigma Delta Chi from the Society of Professional Journalists and has been supported by a grant from the kenntniserlangung for Investigative Journalism. A graduate of Northwestern University and the University of British Columbia, he enjoys beer and naps.