TITLE : MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MIND.

 
Contents
 
Introduction
 
Your Brain's Potential 1
SELF-CHECK 1
Developing Your Approach
Chapter Design
Further Reading
General Advice
Developing Your Potential
SELF-CHECK 2
The Problems
 
1 Your Brain  9
From Past to Present
Your Left and Right Brain
The Structure of Your Brain - Your Brain Cells
Connections and Pathways in Your Brain
Unlimited Potential?
Your Upper and Lower Brain
Positive Positive Thinking
Improving with Age
Your Brain- Some Comparisons
SELF-CHECK 3
 
2 Your Memory Can Be Better Than You Think  31
SELF-CHECK 4
Memory Improves with Age
Retention and Recall
Retention - the Evidence
Your Recall - and How It Works
The Importance of Review
Special Memory Systems
Memory and Observations - Remembering Names and Faces
SELF-CHECK 5
The Number Shape Memory Technique
SELF-CHECK 6
The Great Memorizers
'Setting' Yourself to Remember
 
3 Listening  58
SELF-CHECK 7
SELF-CHECK 8
SELF-CHECK 9
The Potential of Your
Hearing Ability
Problems in Concentration
The ARCURRC Model
The Twenty Keys to
Effective Listening
Hearing and Your Other Senses
 
4 Using and Caring for Your Eyes  75
Amazing Facts About Your Eyes
Seeing at the Back of Your
Head Pupil Size
Do You See as Others See?
SELF-CHECK 10
SELF-CHECK 11
SELF-CHECK 12
Relationship of Vision to Health, Emotions, Other Senses, and Memory
Exercises in Observation
Keys for Caring for Your Eyes
 
5 Speed Reading  90
and Effective Reading
SELF-CHECK 13
The History of Speed Reading
Basic Eye Movements
Using a Visual Guide
Reference, Technical, and Study Reading
Applying Yourself to the Reading Task
Keys for Further Improvement
SELF-CHECK 14
 
6 Note-Making and Fast Writing 112
SELF-CHECK
Traditional Methods
Studies on Key Words
Creative Note-Making
Abbreviations
Physically Speeding Up
Extending Your Note-Making
 
7 Creativity 119
SELF-CHECK 16
SELF-CHECK 17
Creativity and Your Brain's Structure
The Fallacy of Standard Testing
The Quantitative Aspect of Creativity
The Qualitative Aspect of Creativity
An Exercise in Creativity
Mind Maps
The Great Minds
 
8 Numeracy  130
Fear of Numbers
Your Amazing Latent Mathematical Capacity
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Keys for Continued
Self-Improvement
 
9 Logic and Analysis  144
SELF-CHECK 18
Fallacies
The Use of Emotional Language
Arguments Which Appeal to Authority
Arguments from an Undefined Source
Changes in the Definition of Words
Greater Good or Evil
The No Decision/No Action Argument
Angering the Opponent
The Yes-But Arguments
Arguments Using Biased Statistics
Keys for Continued Self-Improvement
 
10 Family and Group Study  160
SELF-CHECK 19
SELF-CHECK 20
The Common Associations with Study
Study - The Appropriate Associations
Selecting Your Subjects of Study
Professional Group Study
Family/Group Study using MOST
Establishing the Most Supportive Environment
The Family/Group Study Day
The Family/Group Blitz
The Knowledge Books
 
Advice for the Future  178
 
Further Reading  182
 
Index  185
 
List of illustrations contained in colour inset
 
page 1: Mind Map of group study
page 2: Mind Map of memory functions
page 3: Mind Map of sight functions
page 4: Mind Map of numerary functions