Rasmus Hougaard, global leader of mindfulness launches ‘one second ahead’ in Hong Kong

Join Hougaard on Tuesday 31st May at 6.30 pm at Bookazine’s Prince’s Building store for a discussion on the key benefits of mindfulness and the first 15 visitors to the store will each receive a free, signed copy of Hougaard’s book One Second Ahead.

“Our attention has come under siege at work,” explains Hougaard. “We’re living in what we call the ‘Attention Economy’ where concentration has become a priceless commodity and is now just as important as technological, intellectual or management capabilities.

Hougaard will be encouraging everyone to address the four main problems faced by many of Hong Kong’s senior level execs known by the organisation as the P.A.I.D. reality:

• Pressure – Hong Kong offices are stressful, pressurised environments where the need to succeed sometimes comes at the expense of health and wellbeing;
• Always on/action addiction – The Potential Project estimates that 80 percent of Hong Kong’s corporate execs are addicted to emails, texts, tweets and pointless meetings whereby individuals get a dopamine kick just by doing something – anything – even though the action is unwarranted;
• Information overload – faced with a relentless flood of information, the exec’s brain tries to process everything at once. In other words, s/he multi-tasks. But multi-tasking is the worst possible reaction to information overload and the modern office is actually transforming competent professionals into frenzied underachievers;
• Distraction – text messages, emails, phone calls, meetings, deadlines, social media updates, tweets

For those not able to attend the book signing, more information on how mindfulness can transform corporate life can be found at www.potentialproject.com.hk