Brain Training: Boost Memory, Maximize Mental Agility, & Awaken Your Inner Genius

193 Pages·2009·18.85 MB·English

BRAIN
TRAINING
boost memory, maximize mental agility,
& awaken your inner genius
Tips, puzzles,
foreword by exercises,
Tony Buzan and other
strategies for
supercharged
mind power
BRAIN TRAINING
the complete visual program
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BRAIN TRAINING
the complete visual program
foreword by Tony Buzan
written by James Harrison and Mike Hobbs
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Contents
LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, DELHI
Illustrator & Designer Keith Hagan at Foreword 6
www.greenwich-design.co.uk How to use this book 8
Project Editor Suhel Ahmed
Project Art Editor Charlotte Seymour
Senior Editor Helen Murray CHAPTER 1
US Editors Shannon Beatty, Jill Hamilton and
Brain potential
Margaret Parrish
Brain power 12
Senior Art Editor Liz Sephton
Senior Production Editor Jennifer Murray Picture the brain 14
Production Controller Alice Holloway What is intelligence? 16
Creative Technical Support Sonia Charbonnier Looking to learn 18
Managing Editor Penny Warren Where are you at? 20
Managing Art Editors Glenda Fisher and
Marianne Markham
Category Publisher Peggy Vance
Puzzles Consultant Phil Chambers CHAPTER 2
The authors and publishers have made every effort to acknowledge Memory
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the relevant puzzle and quiz providers and to ensure that the external All about memory
websites are correct and active at the time of going to press. 32
How does memory work?
Published in the United States by DK Publishing Memory testers 34
375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 36
The Journey Method
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Expanding visual memory
Copyright © 2010 Dorling Kindersley Limited 40
Pegging
Text copyright © 2010 James Harrison and Mike Hobbs
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More memory games
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CHAPTER 3
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Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. spatial awareness
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library Thinking in pictures 48
of Congress.
Seeing is learning 50
ISBN: 978-0-7566-5730-7
Visual teasers 52
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CHAPTER 4
Think creatively
Demystifying creativity 66
Don your creative cap 68
Creative treats 70 CHAPTER 7
Creative conundrums 72
The mind-body connection
Surviving the creative process 74
Healthy body, sturdy mind 144
Doodle art 76
The physical recharge 146
Thinking outside the box 78
Stress factor 148
Matchstick mayhem 80
Exercise the Eastern way 150
Original answers 84
T’ai Chi 152
More creative conundrums 86
Yoga 154
Optical illusions 90
Sleep and the brain 156
Brain food 158
CHAPTER 5
Numerical reasoning
CHAPTER 8
Numerical aptitude 94
Test your new brainpower
Quick-fire arithmetic test 96
Final workout 162
Improving numeracy 98
Visual math workout 100
Sudoku 106 Solutions 172
Samurai Sudoku 110
Useful websites 186
Kakuro 112
Logic flies out of the window 114 Further reading 187
Gambler’s fallacy 116
Index 188
Unraveling numerical riddles 118
Riddles to try 120 Acknowledgments 192
CHAPTER 6
Verbal reasoning
Talk your way to success 124
Quick-fire vocabulary test 126
Language and intelligence 128
A workout with words 130
Reading comprehension 136
Words and pictures 138
Build a story 140
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6 Foreword
Foreword
It is the dream of everyone to have a brain that works better.
You are holding in your hands a book that will help you make
that dream come true!
Brain Training is one of the first VISUAL guides to enhancing
your mental acumen. In this New Age of Intelligence, in which
the human brain has to think intelligently about managing
knowledge and processing the information it is bombarded
with, it’s vitally important that learning materials are brain-
friendly. One of the reasons I was so enthusiastic about writing
the foreword for Brain Training is that this book has everything
your brain needs: it is written in the brain’s own language—the
“visual” language. It contains relevant images, plentiful color,
excellent spatial design, clear associations, and lucid writing. It is
a book about the brain that is friendly to the brain. In its physical
form, the book is entirely congruent with what the brain needs.
In maximizing your brain it is also important for you to know
that, for learning, the majority of people do not use their full
cognitive potential. This might sound like bad news, but is
actually good news. It means that you have a lot of untapped
brainpower still left in the tank. All you need to do is learn
how to access it! Brain Training will allow you to do that,
by introducing you to exciting and enjoyable games and
exercises that will help you maximize your intelligence.
In this groundbreaking book, you will learn about your brain
and its remarkable structure and capacity. You will also be
enlightened about the power of your visual and imaginative
processes. You will find out about your memory and its
extraordinary capacities, your innate visual and creative
capabilities, and your ability with numbers. The book will
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offer “visual” approaches to increase your verbal reasoning
and word power. There is also a chapter that addresses the
vitally important relationship between your brain and your body,
and in which you will learn that the ancient adage: “Healthy
Body Healthy Mind, Healthy Mind Healthy Body” is true. By
working through the puzzles in Brain Training, you will improve
your focus and concentration, your memory, and your learning
and creative powers. These are abilities that will significantly
boost your confidence and joy in life.
By investing in the Brain Training program, you have invested
in your own intellectual capital, and that capital is the most
valuable capital in the world.
Tony Buzan,
Inventor of Mind Maps®
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8 How to use this book
How to use this book
Studies show that the sense of sight is the most
Working through the book
receptive when it comes to learning. Therefore,
this program is visually led, and is filled with a The structure allows you to either work through
diverse mix of popular cognitive exercises, which the book from cover to cover or to pick out a
are divided into thematic chapters covering specific topic—for example, memory—and work
memory, visual reasoning and spatial awareness, on it alone. However you choose to approach the
creativity, numeracy, verbal reasoning, and the book, we encourage you to start with the first
mind-body connection. chapter (and the “Where are you at?” exercises)
We open with a general introduction to the and finish with the final workout in Chapter 8, so
brain, and to the concept of intelligence and you can gauge how you have improved over time.
visual learning. This is followed by a range of For the majority of exercises we have provided
exercises—“Where are you at?”—to gauge your answer boxes for you to fill in. For the remaining
current mental agility. In the subsequent chapters exercises, we will instruct you to write your
we concentrate on a specific brain function, such answer on a separate sheet of paper. Finally, in
as memory or creativity. First, we explain how “The mind–body connection” chapter, we will
it works and then we offer the most effective introduce you to the type of foods, exercise, and
puzzles to exercise that particular mental function. other physical pick-me-ups that raise brain power.
Technique pages offer
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Hints and strategies
work with the material. There are also “fact file”
We also include techniques throughout the book, boxes, which offer fascinating information about
such as “The Journey Method” (see p.36) for the workings of the brain.
improving memory or “The physical recharge” You can use all the tips and techniques you
(see p.146) to increase mental alertness. These have learned to complete the mix of exercises in
appear as discrete features between exercises, and the final workout (Chapter 8). You may then want
come complete with an example of how and why to return to the start and retest yourself against
you might use the technique. We encourage you the puzzles in the “Where are you at?” section
to learn and apply these to the relevant exercises to assess overall improvement.
in the chapter. We might prompt you to use a
specific technique to complete an exercise so that
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you become familiar with applying it, which is an
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Also, try to learn the hints and tips we offer to the puzzles at the back of the book. Look for
throughout the book (denoted by the lightning the solutions arrow at the foot of the page, which
strike icon), as these will enhance your ability to guides you to the specific page number.
The colored band at the top
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Answer boxes to fill in as you
work through the puzzles
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