Executive Function


Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents' Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)
Brain Hacks: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning
How to Keep House While Drowning
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
FLIPP The Switch Strengthen Executive Function Skills
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)
ADHD, Executive Function, & Behavioral Challenges in the Classroom: Managing the Impact on Learning, Motivation, and Stress
Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Flexible and Focused: Teaching Executive Function Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders (Critical Specialties in Treating Autism and other Behavioral Challenges)
Smart but Scattered--and Stalled: 10 Steps to Help Young Adults Use Their Executive Skills to Set Goals, Make a Plan, and Successfully Leave the Nest
What if your lack of focus wasn’t failure—but a signal that your clarity system needs repair?
Felecia Etienne, Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women

Wendy Wood
When we exert willpower, we actively engage mental effort and energy. Decisions and willpower draw on what we call executive-control functions in the mind and brain, which are thoughtful cognitive processes, to select and monitor actions. We are mostly aware of these processes. They are our subjective reality, or the sense of agency that we recognize as “me.” Much as we experience the stress of exerting physical strength, we are aware of the heavy lift of exerting mental strength. Executive cont ...more
Wendy Wood, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

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