Mozart's brain and the fighter pilot
Subtitle: unleashing your brain's potential
By: Richard Restak
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harmony Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780609604458
Subjects: Brain; Mental health; Popular works; Cognition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220).
Table of contents: title: Learn as much as possible about how your brain works.; title: Apply your knowledge about the human brain to organize your ideas.; title: Think of the brain as the creator of incredibly rich and fascinating montages.; title: Your capacity for new learning remains and may increase as you grow older.; title: Learn about your brain's motor programs and how to use them.; title: Take advantage of the intimate interrelationships of learning, memory, and intelligence.; title: Improve your memory by using a memory system.; title: Develop your emotional memory.; title: Think in terms of brain geography.; title: Develop linkages associating as many things as you can.; title: Engage in activities that stimulate extensive portions of the brain.; title: Let the brain just be the brain.; title: Practice forms of mental hygiene.; title: Turn your feelings and emotions to your advantage.; title: Take active measures to reduce stress.; title: Learn to work in concert with your personal bodily rhythms.; title: Strengthen your powers of attention and concentration.; title: Train your powers of logic.; title: Develop a tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.; title: Develop your powers of metacognition: thinking about your thinking.; title: Increase mental acuity through wide and varied reading.; title: Heighten your sensory capacities.; title: Learn about and experience art and music.; title: Organize a physical exercise program that aims at brain enhancement.; title: Cultivate fine-motor-control skills involving your hands.; title: Regularly practice some form of mental relaxation.; title: Use technology to augment your brain's functioning.; title: Concentrate on and act in harmony with your natural abilities.