INCREASE YOUR MIND POWER: The Science of Clear Thinking
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They tested their fluid intelligence using Raven's Progressive Matrices , a widely respected test involving visual pattern manipulations. Think of those old newspaper ads for Mensa, and you won't be far off. What they discovered upended the conventional wisdom: By then, the first generation of commercial brain games had been largely discredited: But playing the dual n-back, it appeared, could truly make people more intelligent.
There are few surer ways to create a firestorm among psychologists and neuroscientists, it turns out, than to claim such impressive changes to an aspect of intelligence long considered fixed. Some in the field compared the Jaeggi findings to cold fusion, which is as close as you can get to accusing a fellow academic of hallucinating while remaining minimally polite.
Some prominently reported attempts to replicate the Jaeggi findings failed, but others found similar positive results in schoolchildren and the elderly. In , a meta-analysis based on 23 studies found "no convincing evidence of the generalisation of working memory training to other skills", though there's been debate about the selection criteria involved. Interviews conducted for Hurley's book show the scientific establishment to be well and truly divided. I got transcranial stimulation at Guy's hospital in , as a guinea pig. But then you do the hard research and you don't see much difference.
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Yet it would be very strange, ultimately, if it were to prove utterly impossible to modify your brain's basic capacities through any form of training. Sadly, that's probably a good sign, and it's one thing on which researchers do tend to agree: Unless the task involved keeps getting harder, so that you never quite feel you've got the hang of it, there's no way you'll get more intelligent.
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When you master a task, your brain becomes more efficient at performing it. And "efficiency is not your friend when it comes to cognitive improvement", as Andrea Kuszewski, a behavioural therapist trained in neuroscience, and a believer in the promise of intelligence-boosting, puts it. Once you're pretty good at sudoku, stop doing sudoku; switch to something you're worse at.
Keep seeking challenges that make your head hurt. Nobody ever said getting smarter was going to be easy. There could be ways to become smarter more quickly, though — so long as you're willing, like Anthony Lee, to do slightly nerve-racking things with electricity. The idea of electrically stimulating human bodies goes back at least to the 19th century, when it was used to cure "melancholy"; much later, electroconvulsive therapy would be used to induce seizures in psychiatric patients. The latest breakthroughs in neuroscience and physics suggest that several science fiction tropes mind control, telekinesis, etc.
This raises haunting questions like: Do we have a soul?
What happens to us after we die? And most important, this brings us to the ultimate question: The first successful brain surgeries took place during the Stone Age, roughly around BC. An engineering professor provides alternative and often simple strategies for learning complex subject matter. It climbs logically and majestically from addition through subtraction, multiplication, and division. Then it sweeps up towards the heavens of mathematical beauty. But math can also be a wicked stepmother.
She is utterly unforgiving if you happen to miss any steps of the logical sequence--and missing a step is easy to do. All you need is a disruptive family life, a burned-out teacher, or an unlucky extended bout with illness--even a week or two at a critical time can throw you off your game. Sign up to subscribe to email alerts and you'll never miss a post. And, most importantly, it reads beautifully. The book is published in but still seems current after all those years. Life is about understanding others. This book will help you do that.
But everyone knows your body's going to suffer as a result! The Jaeggi study relied on an especially vicious brain-training game known as the "dual n-back". McGonigal writes in a down-to-earth manner that inspires you to take action. Francis Bacon said it best:. You might conclude from this that Lee is a very foolish person, but the quest he's on is one that has occupied scientists, philosophers and fortune-hunters for centuries:
This classic book teaches you the science of persuasion. Quiet is a book about knowing yourself.
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And that simple skill can change the outcome of your life. It comes down to this: Weintraub is a Hollywood legend. And this book inspires you to be more practical, hard-nosed, and persuasive. If you read this book the way Og Mandino instructs, it will change your life.
Can I increase my brain power?
Making decisions is one of the most mentally draining things you have to do daily. This book changed the way I look at options: Forming new habits is a practical skill that immediately impacts the quality of your life. Want to lose weight?
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One thing is sure: Without habits, those things will be extremely difficult to pull off. Most people are afraid of negotiation. And you should do it more often. To me, Malcolm X is the real symbol of a self-made man. It has nothing to do with money or fame. You make yourself by expanding your mind. But so is life.