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Description: The old adage is wrong: it isn`t 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. Don`t 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.
Target Audience: General readers, professionals.
Special prices are applicable to the authorised sales territory only.
Prices are subject to change without prior notice. ISBN 9788175544376
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Pages : 124
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