Sharp

14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science

Use neuroscience to unlock your mental potential and tackle life's challenges with ease.  After all, your brain is your business.

Coming April 2025

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“This user’s guide to your brain is the most practical, down-to-earth, and funny manual on mastering your life I’ve ever read.”

—Eddie Stern, author of One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life and co-creator of the Breathing App

What if your best days weren’t left to chance, but something you could control and activate at will?

Most of us want to be a little happier, a little more focused, and a lot less stressed. We want simple approaches that are easy to fold into our everyday lives.

In Sharp, you’ll discover dozens of evidence-backed strategies to help you unlock your potential and enhance your performance—whether at work, school, home, or in relationships. Therese Huston unpacks the latest neuroscience research to deliver a gold mine of techniques to help you feel your sharpest including:

  • how a calming deep breathing technique improves decision-making 

  • exactly what kind of exercise helps you think on your feet 

  • what brain science says you should look for in a doctor, and 

  • how to get focused on your most unfocused days. 

Forget the hard-to-implement advice of "get more sleep"—Sharp dives into more innovative, actionable tips that can make a difference in your daily routine.  Best of all, many of these strategies take five minutes or less.

If you’re looking to be a little happier, a lot more productive, and far less stressed, Sharp offers solutions you’ve been waiting for.

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  • "Extraordinarily readable—and a profound supplement to Sandberg's Lean In."

    —Booklist

  • “An authoritative guide to help women navigate the workplace and their everyday life with greater success and impact”

    —Forbes

  • “I thought I had read everything I needed to read on gender differences, but, as a CEO, this book showed me a new and critically important area in which we need to be very aware of our biases and take the steps Huston recommends to address them.”

    —Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family and President and CEO of New America

  • "With verve, charm, and a ruthless reliance on data,...[Huston] builds a convincing case that if businesses, government, and other organizations want to improve their decision-making at the highest levels, they need to have more women in the boardroom”

    —Publishers Weekly

  • “Finally! A well-researched book that affirms the fact that, despite their self-doubts, women make great decision-makers. This book will help you to compete with your male counterparts with courage and confidence.”

    —Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office and See Jane Lead

  • “If you’re a woman, read it. If you’re a man, read it . . . Sometimes a book tells you something you really needed to know, whether you realized it or not, and How Women Decide is one of those books.”

    —The National