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Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > Memory improvement & thinking techniques
As we age, our memories become unreliable; we misplace things and
forget details. In Ultimate Memory Magic, memory expert Jim Karol
shows that these side effects of aging are not inevitable. His
memory-boosting system, called "Cogmental Intelligence," goes
beyond preserving mental acuity and actually enhances memory and
mental function through lifestyle changes and mental exercises.
Concentration, alertness, and focus can all be strengthened - by
anyone, at any age. Karol's cutting-edge program will show readers
how to: - Sharpen their thinking and regain their mental edge -
Live free from disease - Get in the best physical shape of their
lives - Clear away negativity and stress - Become more creative and
innovative A former steel worker who suffered from ill health,
Karol used this method to transform his own life. Now he is
physically healthy and renowned for his unparalleled memory. His
incredible feats of memory and mentalism have been featured on "The
Tonight Show," "The Ellen Show," "Today," and more. Karol has used
his Cogmental Intelligence method with clients from professional
athletes to business leaders and speaks at venues around the world,
from MIT to the Pentagon. With a foreword from bestselling author
and physician Daniel G. Amen, Ultimate Memory Magic will allow
readers of any age to hone their minds, strengthen their memories,
and transform their lives.
Few would disagree that improving our memories can enrich our lives
in countless little ways - from ensuring that we remember
birthdays, anniversaries and appointments to having impressive
facts and figures always at our fingertips; and from recalling
names and faces to being able to speak in public without notes.
This book is an expert course in memory enhancement, organized in
52 key lessons, complete with self-testing. Dominic O'Brien offers
us tried and tested strategies and tips that will expand your
mental capacities at a realistic but impressive rate to make your
memory bigger, better and sharper, week-by-week.
Are you a quick-wit? Are you logical? Would you be a good
detective? How well do you judge people? How creative are you? Do
you use your brain power? Here's a series of books that are not
just another set of test-yourself books. Highly readable, these
books are written by professionals and provide expert guidance to
help you to evaluate yourself and enrich and fortify your life.
From the ancient Greeks to Buddhism, our ability to check reality
and recalibrate has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years.
Yet it is only recently that we've developed the technology to
create a rigorous science of self-awareness, what we call
metacognition. Head of the Metacognition Lab at University College
London, Stephen Fleming is the world's leading expert in this new
field of neuroscience. In Know Thyself he explains both the vast
potential of metacognition and why it is that we still so often get
it wrong. Based on his own pioneering studies, full of cutting-edge
research from computer science, psychology and evolutionary
biology, made tangible with powerful real-life examples, Dr Fleming
shows how developing metacognition can help us become smarter, make
better decisions and lead more effectively. While AI has been
posted as the remedy to human error, its flaw is its lack of
self-awareness. In the way a coach can dramatically improve an
athlete's performance or a conductor can guide an orchestra through
a complicated piece of music, Know Thyself reveals how
metacognition offers humanity a crucial edge in our modern world.
It is one that might yet turn out to be our saving grace.
Cognitive and Working Memory Training assembles an
interdisciplinary group of distinguished authors-all experts in the
field-who have been testing the efficacy of cognitive and working
memory training using a combination of behavioral, neuroimaging,
meta-analytic, and computational modelling methods. This edited
volume is a defining resource on the practicality and utility of
the field of cognitive training research in general, and working
memory training in particular. Importantly, one focus of the book
is on the notion of transfer-namely, the extent to which cognitive
training-be it through music, video-game play, or working memory
demanding interventions at school-generalizes to learning and
performance measures that were decidedly not part of the training
regimen. As most cognitive scientists (and perhaps many casual
observers) recognize, the notions of cognitive training and
transfer have been widely controversial for many reasons, including
disagreement over the reliability of outcomes and consensus on
methodological "best practices," and even the ecological validity
of laboratory-based tests. This collection does not resolve these
debates of course; but its contribution is to address them directly
by creating an exchange in a single compendium among scientists
who, in separate research publications, do not always reach the
same conclusions. The book is organized around comprehensive
overview chapters from different disciplinary
perspectives-Cognitive Psychology (by Hicks and Engle),
Neuroscience (by Kuchinsky and Haarmann), and Development (by Ling
and Diamond)-that define major issues, terms, and themes in the
field, with a pointed set of challenge questions to which other
scientists respond in subsequent chapters. The goal of this volume
is to educate. It is designed for students and researchers, and
perhaps the armchair psychologist. Crucially, the contributors
recognize that it is good for science to persistently confront our
understanding of an area: Debate and alternative viewpoints, backed
by theory, data, and inferences drawn from the evidence, is what
advances scientific knowledge. This book probes established
paradigms in cognitive training research, and the long-form of
these chapters (not found in scientific journals) allows detailed
exploration of the current state of the science. Such breadth
intends to invite novel ways of thinking about the nature of
cognitive and perceptual plasticity, which may enlighten either new
efforts at training, new inferences about prior results, or both.
We all know that 'we only use ten per cent of our brain' is a myth,
but it is true that giving our brains a workout can really help our
day-to-day problem-solving abilities. In Brain Coach Intense,
puzzle master Dr Gareth Moore has designed an intensive 40-day
training plan to really stretch your mental agility, along with
tips and tricks to help you overcome mental strain and increase
your brain function and explanations of how the puzzles help your
brain. Each day you'll be introduced to a puzzle format and shown
how to solve a simple example, before tackling the increasingly
devilish variations by yourself. Train your brain and improve and
maintain your mental agility with the focused challenges in Brain
Coach Intense and see a difference in 40 days.
Frustrated with your brain? How would you like to remember where
you put your car keys? Is multitasking working for you? Do you ever
wonder how you drove to your destination? Baby boomers may be
painfully aware of "the Fade"---as parts of our mind, body, spirit
and relationships change and slow down through the years. "Max Your
Mind" points out many benefits or "the Boost" that come with
maturity, while offering tips to stay sharp and deal with the down
side. If you are willing to explore some uncharted waters, you may
discover satisfying gifts that light up your brain. Retirement can
mean a second wind and a new sense of purpose. "Max Your Mind"
takes a light hearted look from a spiritual perspective at the
serious subject of the ways brain, body, spirit and relationships
work together so we can more easily make choices to stay healthy
and happy. Researchers have great news for us! Our brains are
"plastic", which means they change, improving and growing stronger
in many ways as long as we give them what they need. However,
scientific studies may not be everyone's favorite reading material.
"Max Your Mind" uses anecdotal stories to translate their work into
usable tips that we can apply to our everyday lives. Conversational
neuroscience can help us a make life-giving choices. Solutions
appear that we can accept without blame or shame. Reader friendly
applications can guide us to live fully as God intended. We hope
you will find hope, help and humor within the pages.
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