The "smartest person in the world" has written the ultimate illustrated how-to book, a program designed to improve our most powerful natural tool--the brain. Illustrated with drawings, charts, and graphs.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
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Practical strategies for improving your mind and life!,
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This review is from: Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks (Paperback)
Brain Building is a workbook for improving your intelligence, but it's much more. You'll be pleasantly surprised by the unconventional, down-to-earth, downright fun "exercises". The author provides an array of effective, specific techniques and strategies for improving your understanding of and facility with words, numbers, logic, and life, in general. I worked through it several years ago and it literally changed my life. Not a day goes by that I do not draw on its ideas which range from assembling an "intellectual first aid kit" to how to analyze a newspaper editorial. Beautifully written in vos Savant's clear, powerful, concise style, each "exercise" is a gem of wisdom. "Brain Building" is my toolkit for coping with the vortex which is life in America at the dawning of a new millenium.
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Better Living through Thinking,
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This review is from: Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks (Paperback)
If I could give a copy of this book to every person on the planet, I would. I cannot count the number of fundamental insights into understanding life and living that this book has given me. Starting with the single most vital point "your brain is the most important thing that you own", Marilyn Vos Savant goes on to illuminate the many different facets of thinking, pointing out common mistakes and providing exercises to improve each area. I would consider the second essential point to be "just as physical exercise is required for physical fitness, mental exercise is necessary for mental fitness." The exercises themselves are very informative. Generally, they are tasks which materially improve one's life, while working out specific areas of the intellect. Hmmmm.... this may be overly melodramatic, but I would summarize by saying, "Life is a journey, but if you lead it in a smart fashion, it will be much more productive and rewarding." _Brain Building_ is a guidebook toward a better journey.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Does not live up to the title:,
This review is from: Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks (Paperback)
Altough this book did not live up to its title of brain building, it was still an interesting read. This was mostly due to the interesting ways the author thinks about and relates to many common occurences. The author also writes intelligently and shares a great deal of knowledge and wisdom with the reader throughout the text. The actual brain building techniques are simple, everday excercises that don't do much in the way of making an individual smarter (maybe they work for the author's point of view, which is defined as how an individual could score higher on an IQ test). I did, however, feel smarter after reading the author's prose throughout the course of the book, which makes this a book that is a worthwhile read, but not a groundbreaking discovery of a way to make people smarter.
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- How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book) by Mortimer J. Adler on page 187, page 188, and page 197
- Mathematics for the Million by Lancelot Thomas Hogben on page 58, page 72, and page 74
- Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) by George Sullivan on page 24, page 25, and page 26
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Hb by John Bartlett on page 226, and page 238
- What If? by Marshall Brain on page 155, and page 231
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