This brain skill matters more than your IQ

Below, Adrian Owen shares five key insights from his new book, Think Before You Think: Understanding and Mastering Executive Function. Adrian is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and imaging at the University of Western Ontario. He has been featured in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Nature, Wall Street Journal, and Science, among other publications. What’s the Big Idea? Your success in life depends less on how smart you are and more on how well you manage your mind. Executive functions…