Instant Brainpower Tune up your thinking Now!

Instant Brainpower Tune up your thinking Now! Book Description

The old adage is wrong: it isnt who you know but what you know that matters. Nowadays knowledge and its creative use is the key to success. How effective are you at building a store of knowledge and making use of it? Could your memory be better? Do you want to be more creative? This workout for the mind will help you to hone your mental skills and increase your mental agility.



Instant Brainpower




is an easy-to-use action kit bursting with exercises that will help you to make the most of your unique asset: the brain. Full of simple, proven techniques that will help you to find fresh ideas and solutions, the book offers over 70 ways to stretch your mind whether you want to:




enhance your knowledge management and the ability to make connections;




make your memory a valuable asset;




increase your ability to think laterally;




think in new ways and find creative solutions.



Packed with ideas to help you improve your mental energy and agility, this handy book also includes star ratings and ranked lists showing the effectiveness of each exercise in improving knowledge, memory and creativity. A further ranking system tells you how much fun each exercise is to work through. Dont just think about improving your mind, do it now - in an instant



Contents:




Brain bashing


Brainpower?



Meet your brain



Education - brain stretching or brain deadening?



Knowledge, memory and creativity



Conscious and unconscious activity



Using this book

Getting the knowledge


What is knowledge?



The knowledge management business



A lot of theory



What about the Internet?



Becoming better knowledge managers

Memory


How memory works



Forgetting



Memory magic



The value of memory

Creativity


Creativity central



Born with it?



Other approaches



The creativity workout

The exercises


On the box



Water into wine



Broken record



Category magic



Doing and knowing



Metaphorically speaking



Sense and sensibility



Altered states



All that glisters



Chunks and breaks



Extremes



Surveying your mind



Story chains



Muddled model



One more time



Take a note



Words of wisdom



Round the world



Name game



Holistic awareness



Pub quiz



Number rhymes



No time to read



Spinning knowledge



Going down



The little black book



We ask the questions



Follow the finger



On the edge



Quick on the draw



Story time



Leaf mould



Car and goats



Found story



Remember, remember



Life saver



Get a laugh



Rapt concentration



Material gains



Twisters



Mapping for memory



Fact quest



Versatile coat hangers



Game theory



Technical creativity



Stolen thoughts



Broken CD



The bookshop raid



Birthday bonanza



Critical judgement



Number shapes



Encyclopedia dip



Horse whispers



Speed read



Never forget a face



The thrill factor



Different views



Binning paper



Something completely different



Programmed thought



Unconscious creativity



Scribbling



Questioning everything



Cloak and dagger



On the level



Go gallery



Strengthening your ghosts



School daze



Context is everything



Take a letter



! Get another life



An excellent mistake



Using it

Other sources


More brain development



Web sources



Books

Appendix The Selector


The Random selector



Techniques in timing order



Techniques in frequency order



Techniques in knowledge order



Techniques in memory order



Techniques in creativity order



Techniques in fun order






About the author:




Brian Clegg

is a journalist and creativity consultant. He is a well-known writer, both in traditional media and on the World Wide Web. He has also co-authored
Instant Teamwork

and
Instant Creativity

and written
Instant Time Management

in the same series.

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