Building Attention

"Attention is, in fact a highly directed process. Shift the focus of attention, the area of interest and totally new sensory data flow in. This shift depends on such things as alertness, degree of concentration and areas of interest."

Before you can expand your intellectual horizons in the areas of information processing, comprehension and perspective, it is imperative that you increase your attention span and expand the perceptions of your senses. Think of the brain as a switching center, like that of a giant railroad, sending  different trains down different tracks all at the same time. You always want to be awake at the switch. 

When  one thinks "short attention span," one almost always identifies it with very young children and that is as it ought to be. When building your own intelligence, building your attention span first is a critical factor.

Intelligence tests require you to correctly repeat a sentence you have just heard, the gist of a longer passage and a series of numbers. Sentence memory, passage memory and digit memory are based on the span of your attention and are tests of that span and how well you are able to focus it.

To test your own attention span, try to picture the words as you read, written out on a blackboard. With the longer passage, concentrate on memorizing the key words. The others will fall into place by themselves. The scoring on a test like this tends to be absolute. You receive credit on the sentence memory and the digit sequence only of you repeat every word of the sentence exactly. Muff a word or a number and you receive no score. 

In a passage memory exercise, the scoring is again black and white, except you are not expected to remember every exact word. You are however, given credit only if you can recall every salient point in the passage. You are either get these right or you get them wrong. But, on an intelligence test, as the sentences, passages and number series become increasingly more complex and difficult, the test maker will usually begin to stumble more often. At that point, the test is stopped and the testee is given credit for the levels at which there no errors. It works sometime like an eye chart, except that you do not come away with new glasses.

If you have any trouble remembering the seven-digit series. Make up about dozen of them each day for the next week, practicing them until you are comfortable seeing or hearing a seven digit series once, then repeating it once or twice. When you can do that with ease, you should be able to hear a telephone number once and have no problem holding it in your short term memory until you actually dial it.

Although the word "attention" is singular, attention itself is not. There are several kings of attention, each useful in different way and all necessary. There is the long range kind of tenacity required to plow through and digest a boring, but necessary, corporate report and the creative kind of perseverance required to stay with an original project of your own. Too many half knitted sweaters or unfinished letters are languishing in desks or clothes because of insufficient perseverance.

Still other kinds of work require shorter, but more intense bursts of attention to make an extraordinary exertion of mental muscles or break through to new area of thinking, supplying you with final push that can make the difference between your reach and your grasp.

Building Vocabulary

Vocabulary is the foundation of your English skills. Without a large vocabulary, even the best understanding of English grammar will not allow you to speak English. Memorizing vocabulary may not be your favorite activity, but there are plenty of creative ways to make it more fun. We've prepared some study tips to make learning English vocabulary more fun and you can learn new words.

1. Read the dictionary.

Dictionaries contain most words that you find in daily life. Looking up words in the dictionary that you see or hear will definitely improve vocabulary, all be it slowly. The important thing to remember is to use your new word as soon as you have learned it. If you practice saying, and writing the new words throughout the day, you’ll start to remember it’s meaning and the new vocabulary word becomes a part of your common knowledge. Make yourself comfortable with the new word and keep repeating it in different areas of your life when talking to people. Using the new word in emails, blog posts, or other forms of writing will also cement the new word into the memory bank. Expanding your vocabulary will always be improved by regularly diving into the dictionary and reading entries for words you aren't yet familiar with.

2. Read more.

Read quality Newspapers, well written magazines, essays, and Online materials everyday. If you come across a word whose meaning is unknown to you, underline it and look up the word in the dictionary. Try using the new words you have learned in your daily conversation. Make it a habit. Start with a page a day, and in a while, your vocabulary will be expanded.

Also try to read at least one book and several magazines every week. Not just this week and the next week, but every week for a long time. As well as improving your vocabulary, you'll also keep updated and backdated, your general knowledge will increase, and you'll be a well-rounded person who knows a lot more than many other people do.

3. Write more.

The more you write, the more your vocabulary increases as you're forced into a position of expanding your word usage to convey precisely what it is that you wish to get across to the reader. When writing, aim to replace commonly used words with less used and more descriptive and interesting words; get out the thesaurus and use more challenging words. Doing this can improve your fiction, biographical, and some forms of work writing a great deal. Most material written for public dissemination aims to avoid the use of words that the average reader would not know. Keep this in mind when flexing your new vocabulary; you'll still need to keep your plain English in good usage for everyday writing, especially in most work environments.

4. Open your mind to new ideas.

Every word you see is the translation of new idea. Think about the areas of human knowledge that may possibly be unknown to you - psychology, semantics, anthropology, science, art, music, management, etc. Then, attack one of these areas methodically, by reading books on that particular subject. In every field, from the simplest to the most abstruse, there are several books for the average, untrained lay reader, right through to those for experts in the field. Push yourself with the reading as far as you can, to expose yourself to new ways of using the vocabulary and forming ideas; doing this will give you both a good grasp of the subject and, at the same time, add new vocabularies to your existing knowledge.

5. Add the new words you meet in your reading

When you see an unfamiliar word in a book, magazine, manual, etc., do not skip over it impatiently. Instead, pause for a moment and say it to yourself. Get used to its sound and its appearance. At first, try to puzzle out its possible meaning in the context of the sentence. Whether you come to the right conclusion or not, whether indeed you're even able to come to any intelligent conclusion at all is of no importance. What is important is that, by that process, you're becoming super conscious of the new word. As a result, you will suddenly notice that this very word pops up unexpectedly again and again in all sorts of places. For now your mind has been alerted to notice it. Once you've tried this exercise, look it up in the dictionary and confirm its meaning.

6. Become actively receptive to new words.

Every time you read, there are opportunities to increase your vocabulary. Don't ignore these opportunities. Many of us tend to skip unknown words and gain general understandings of phrases or paragraphs from their overall context. If you're used to doing this, it may require additional effort to remember to note down the unknown words. Train yourself to be invariably aware when reading and listening to others, and remember the words that are not known to you. Look them up later in a dictionary. Consider keeping a small notebook with you and quickly jot down unknown words as you come across them for checking later. If you hear or see a word you don't know, be sure to look it up.

Let new words percolate in your mind. Learn the meanings and then add them into everyday speech as regularly as possible.

7. Do word puzzles and play word games.

Word puzzles are an excellent source of increasing your word knowledge because the puzzle creators will often need to resort to an array of unusual words to ensure that the words fit into their puzzles and that they are interesting for the puzzle doer. There are many varieties of vocabulary puzzles, including crosswords, find-a-word and hidden word puzzles. As well as strengthening your word knowledge, puzzles are also good for improving your critical thinking skills. For word games, try such games as Scrabble, Boggle, and Cranium to extend your vocabulary.

8. Set a goal.

Set your self a goal of finding and remembering several new words every day. While this may sound ambitious, you will discover as soon as you start actively looking for new words in your reading, and actively doing reading of a more challenging type, that new words are all around you and that this is an exciting goal to fulfill. And understand this – vocabulary building snowballs. The results of each new day search will be greater and greater.

Make looking up 10 words in the dictionary a day a habit. Once that gets real simple start looking up 20,30, 40, etc.

9. Use the new words that you met into a sentences.

If you learn some new words,do not hesitate. Talk to whoever you can and implement those words in sentences. Decide among your circle of friends that you will only talk in English with each other. This way you can get rid of hesitation and also have your friends correct you when you are wrong.

Building Information

If we accept the computer as a metaphor for the brain itself, then the intellect is the hardware and information the software. A computer accepts all information impartially, sorts it without judging it, store it, and regurgitates it on command. But a computer chip is built to last practically forever while human brings are comparatively short lived. All information is not of equal value, if we had eternity to sift through the information of previous centuries- all the books, music, art, ideas generated by the human race, all the wonders of the universe known and unknown-we could take our time selecting the best and leaving the rest.

In the last 400 years, we have mad a quantum leap in information technology. By the 1980s, if a Russian leader sneeze in Moscow, his ka-choo is transmitted instantly by satellite, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations can say "Gesundheit" in New York, and a few seconds later, they can hear "Thank you" back from the Kremlin.

Every day we are bombarded b an onslaught of information from the airwaves, from our newspapers and magazines, by video clip and radio-cast, and even by headlines spelled out in lights blinking around public buildings. At least, most of this bombardment is unnecessary overload. Much of the time, it is simply junk. at worst, however, it is dangerously misleading. 

Always remember that there is more information than truth. Information is only the first step to Data, and Data only the next step to Fact. Fact is on the road to Truth, but is has a long way to go. And do not ever confuse Information with Truth, or you will wind up with a painful of dirt, or at best, fool's gold.

Know exactly who and what it is feeding you information before you swallow or digest it. Chew the information thoroughly first. We have talked before about how people unconsciously select slanted or biased newspapers, magazines and other sources of information and "opinion" to buttress their own beliefs. By now you should be out of that habit. 

Learn to install facts from commentary. Probably the greatest difficulty in distilling facts from commentary is telling the difference. The words you hear spoken on the news have often been so homogenized that the milk of commentary and the cream of fact are blended so completely you can not tell where one leaves off and the other begins.

Understand that a lot of the time this is not even done consciously. There is no conspiracy to matter of each person in power having his or her own political beliefs. This fact causes each speech or program to be slanted in that particular direction. Overt instructions to slant the news are quite unnecessary. Every employee knows that the fastest route to advancement is to please the boss and fix into the organisation.

Many television news programs actually employ "commentators", media stars who are paid to deliver a one-sided opinion of national and world events. They tell you up front that this is their commentary and doesn't reflect anything but that. Presumably, the viewer is meant to believe that the rest of the news is therefore free of slant or bias. But to believe that is an naive as believing that newspapers run unbiased stories off the editorial pages and put of the purview of its columnists.

Effective Communication Skill

Effective Communication Skill

To communicate with people, be aware of how many and who they are. Notice that you will speak differently to three people from how you will speak to one, even on the same subject. People who do not a lot of public speaking to large audiences are often unable to talk to a single person on a on to one basis. If you have identified this as your problem, that you address different people differently in different situations, practice to correct it except in cases where you choose to do it deliberately. But learn to tell the difference. Some silly thing you re not supposed to do while communication. 

We have stated some explanations those never tried to make communication with others:

Never try to explain a subject when you don't know enough about it

Expressing your knowledge or Teaching something is a great way to learn it, but do not waste your own or other's time by teaching something you don't know in depth. 

Try not to use the Telephone as a means of Communication

The Telephone, which ought to be used as a convenience form of communication for too many people, replacing the written word and the face to face meeting. That's not good for batter communication, because it is almost impossible to make real contact over a telephone. When you can see the person you are talking to, you can guess his understanding in hundred subtle ways, including his body language and facial expression.

Stop using the word "Opinion"

"Opinion" is often used to mask or glorify a dumb idea. And all opinions are not equal. Many of them are just plain wrong. A tightly held opinion is the hallmark of a mind closed just as tightly. Open your mind and let out those stale opinions.

Do not afraid to be wrong

If you ever be afraid to be wrong. this fear will hold back your intellectual development. It is almost impossible to see your flaws in communication unless you are communicating with others who will point them out or question your statement closely. Respond openly, not defensively, to the challenge. This is perhaps the best opportunity you will get to discover your errors and correct them. If you can't get used to admitting your mistakes, it is unlikely you will ever get beyond them. Admit you are wrong and embrace the truth gladly.

Do not defend your Point of View against every criticism

Most points of view have bad aspects as well as good ones. That doesn't necessarily mean that you have made the wrong choice. But if you knock yourself out trying to prove to a critical listener that you are right on every point that's been attacked and if you are proved wrong, then the rest of your argument will tend to lose its credibility. In the same way learn that exaggeration doesn't strengthen an argument, rather it weakens it by reducing the credibility of the speaker.

Don't raise your Voice

Don't shout, argue or raise your Voice for a month. If what you say has merit, communicating it calmly will be as effective than raising your voice. Practice getting your ideas across quietly or not at all.If you really want to get somebody's attention, lower your voice, even to whisper. You will be surprised at how many people will strain to here you.

Building Communication

Comunication

Communication is the science and art of transmitting and imparting information from one mine to another. Communication can be done b speaking, drawing, writing, music, an expressive silence, a sympathetic smile or the technology of satellites. By means of music, we can set a mood evoke emotions, stimulate feelings of romance, sadness, suspense, dread or exhilaration. By the mute but eloquent clasp of hand, we can communicate our feelings of warmth and empathy. Until science discovered some method whereby humans can read one another's minds, we must use our own Brain Power and words to get a clear idea across in the shortest, surest most effective way.

The most important element in any form of communication is Clarity. Clarity of thinking and Clarity of communication are two sides of the same golden coin and the development of both is paramount in building your brain. Having to get an idea across to others forces you to put your own thoughts in order. Whether you are guiding a friend, managing employees or holding down a challenging job, your effectiveness depends largely on how clearly you can make known your needs and instructions, how easily and fully you can make others comprehend. To do this you must first be able to organize your own thinking into a logical and easily communicated structure.

How to Improve Communication Skill

To communicate with others in a batter way, you must understand and learn the following manners to Build perfect and impressive Communication Skill:

Think Before you Speak

Don't jump into any discussion from a standing start. Take a moment to put your thoughts into a rough order, at least, What is it you are trying to impart? and What do you hope to provoke in your listener?. These few things you must consider to start communication.

Listen to what you say

Try to judge your speaking from another person's view point. Use your speaking as a means to organize your thinking as well. What if one of the others taking part in this communication? 

Mean what you say

After a heated discussion in which you have taken part, select from all your conversions the six most important things you said. Write them down and list what you actually meant privately. Analyze those things and try to cure it for further communication. Clear communication is predicated on speaking the truth, not on verbal wresting matches.

Communicate positively

It is easier to communicate when you do not worry about what your listeners think of you. Good communicators are well loved. Short words, brief, direct sentences spoken with feeling are best part of good communication Skill.

Do all your Important Communicating yourself

Do not let to others the most important things you want to get across to somebody. The more practice you get, the better communicator you will become, and the less you will fear the consequences of poor communication.

Building Attention Span and Senses

"Attention is a highly directed process. Change the focus of attention, the area of interest, and totally new sensory data flow in. This changes depends on such things as alertness, degree of concentration and areas of interest."

Attention Span and Senses

Before you can expand your intellectual horizons in the area of information processing, comprehension and perspective, it is imperative that you increase your attention span and expand the perceptions of your senses. Think of the brain as a switching center, like that of a giant railroad, sending different trains down different tracks all at the same time. You always want to be awake at the switch.

When one thinks "short attention span," one almost always identifies it with very young children, and that is as  ought to be. Toddlers are so curious about everything that they will drop an activity in the middle to pick up some thing else that catches their eye. So do chimpanzees. But we adult humans should have enough adjustments to stick to a job until it is done, and with anyone of powerful intelligence. When building your own intelligence, building your attention span first is a critical factor.

Intelligent test require you to correctly repeat a sentence you have just heard, the gist of longer passage memory and series of numbers. Sentence memory, passage memory and digit memory are based on the span  of your attention and are tests of that span and how well you are able to focus it.

The scoring on your own attention span, you receive credit on the sentence memory and the digit sequence only if you repeat every word of the sentence exactly, down to the last syllable, or the digit in their correct order, down to the last numeral.Muff a word or a number, and you receive no score. You are, however, given credit only if you can recall only if you can recall every salient points.

You attention, focus, alertness and concentration is highly required to build brain power. When yo want to remember some sentence, you need to repeat sentences word for word. When yo want to remember some passage, keep the salient points in the same order as you hear them. When yo want to remember some digit series, repeat the digits in the same sequences that you hear them. 

Try following to Build attention span and senses

• Work on one task at a time
• Finish what you start
• Finish an old project first
• Do all little things a once
• Sleep less
• Do not sleep on a problem unsettled
• Do not eat unless you are hungry
• Delegate responsibility
• Learn how to prepare
• Try not to watch Television at least once in a week
• Do not drink or eat at your Desk
• Do not tie a break to the clock

Building Physical Orientation

Steps to Build Intellectual Orientation

Physical and Mental Orientation

Physical orientation entails seeing where you find yourself in your surroundings. This means you have to learn about your surroundings before you can place yourself within them.

Mental orientation is a bit more difficult. It requires attention to more than what your eyes see. It requires orientation to things such as days and dates. If you are not sure what day it is, you are wandering on the edge   of the woods. If you do not know what month it is, yo have taken the wrong path and all the trees are starting to look alike. And it you are still writing the wrong year on your checks every April, the robins will come and cover you with leaves. 

Intellectual orientation is a combination of the first two, producing what we will call situational orientation. With this kings of orientation, you are aware of both the seem and the unseen environments, which affords you the capacity to act with as much power thinking as is needed for the situation.

With Intellectual and Mental orientation a person can become very well oriented mentally. He would memorized the dates of every significant event in recent past. He does not bother to carry an address book because he knows everybody's address and telephone number as well as their birth date by heart. He jumps around eagerly in his seat until the instructor calls upon him to work a math problem on the blackboard in front of hundred fellow students. Yet, intellectual as he appears to be, there's something very odd about him. His il fitting clothes are thrown on with no correction of style and patterns. he gets tired just watching other guys working out at the gym. he very seldom has a date. Out of mind, out of sight. Thus, the person who is capable at both physical and mental orientations has genuine intellectual orientation. He can take what life dishes out, and who can handle most situations and encounters with calm assurance.

If you finds some place and you have map, look only once at the map, then go. Use your eyes, your memory, and your sense of orientation instead. When somebody gives you directions to a new place, write them down, read them through, and carry them with you, but try not to use them unless you are lost and / or running out of time. The same goes for maps. Check the map before setting out, figure out how you are going to get where you are headed, then put the map away and simply concentrate on getting there. 

Mental Tools Approach

Mental Tools Extend Your Mental Reach

Mental Tools

Mathematics is a function of the logical, reasoning brain.which often relies upon tools to extend its reach. Your body clock is part of your intuitive functioning, and you should strip away all outside mechanisms and allow your intuition to develop its full range. Mathematics is an absolute. it is either right or wrong, black or white. Your intuition is a flexible, sensitive instrument that requires a difference kind of honing.

As your sense of time  improves, you will fell a "keening' of sensitivity, a triumphant feeling that will make you want to continue its development in other areas. There are two levels of sensitivity. the first, the external or sensitivity to your surroundings, is far easier to achieve. Here's another external approach.

*  Read the best of the Mystery Novels 
*  Turn into Yourself
*  Become your own Instrument of measure
*  Study Spelling

As you build both your insight and your intuition, the time comes when you must combine them to read what we call "the fine print of life." Everyday, you are bombarded by glowing promises from advertisers,  politicians, clergymen and others. You are called upon again and again to make decisions based on what others tell you. in almost every case, however, what they leave out is as important as what they say. Allow your intuition and your insight to lead you to discover what the pitchman doesn't tell you.

If your intuition tells you not to accept something completely, listen to it. Use insight to read the fine print or between the lines. It may change your attitude. As you work on the Mental Tools approaches, you will begin to feel a kind of peripheral intellectual vision, a greater trust in your own abilities and capabilities, and a sense that you can grasp and make successful use of everything within your range and even begin to extend it.

Solve Number Series

Work on Solving Number Series

Number Series

Number series, which are given on most intelligence tests and which you will find in a good paperback puzzle book. They focus your scan tightly, thereby making your search a little easier and helping you to define and hone the process.

The difference with number series and insight in general is that with number you must take extra trouble to 'lock in' on a find, then proceed to check its accuracy. If your answer comes up incorrect, you 'lock in' on another find, over and over until you find the one that really works, the one that satisfies the requirements of the series. By doing this repeatedly, you will learn to can much more efficiently. Here's an example of a number series:

Exercise  :    4      9      25      49      81       (?)            -        (Find last number)

The correct answer is 121, that i s 11 x 11. And here is how to arrive at that solution.

The first successful step you take in your scanning process, your first insight into solving the problem is noticing that the above numbers are all squares: 4 is  2 x 2;  9 is 3 x 3; 25 is 5 x 5 ; 49 is  7 x 7; 81 is 9 x 9. therefore the square root number series would read:

                    2      3      5      7      9       (?)

Scan that series, and your second insight will be that the above are all prime numbers, numbers which can be evenly divided only by themselves  and by 1. Logically, then the next number in that series would have to be the sixth prime number, 11. Going back to the original series. the answer would be 11 squared, or 121.

The following number series problems will offer you some practice. Now you know that your first step. your first insight is to determine what the given numbers have in common so that you can extrapolate that similarity to discover the unknown number.

Exercise 1  :    2      9      28        65      126       (?)            -        (Find last number)

Exercise 2  :    5      25      61      113    181       (?)            -        (Find last number)

Exercise 3  :    7      22     52      102     178       (?)            -        (Find last number)



Answers:

Exercise 1  :    271

Exercise 2  :    265

Exercise 3  :    286

Insight and Intuition

Insight and Intuition

Intuition

Instinct operates almost independently of our desires or our reasoning powers, while intuition is more "voluntary". You can develop it and build it into a very important tool for delving into the deepest of life's problems. Although- just as with instinct and intuition, there is an overlap between insight and intuition. There is also a distinction between them. "Insight" is the clear perception of the framework of situation-getting a handle on things. Although it, too, is innate- that is, it comes from within ourselves. It is fueled by factors outside of us: logic, reason, experience in similar or parallel situations. "Intuition" is entirely innate. It requires no reasoning, no logic, no rational thought of any kind. It is the immediate recognition from within of how, why, and the way thing come to pass.

With insight we perceive obvious signals and put them together in a way that is not obvious. Here's a simple example: A monkey wants his soft teddy bear, but someones cleaning his room has put the toy up on a shelf he can't reach. However, the cleaning person has left a broom behind. Picking up the broom, the monkey uses it to knock the bear off the shelf and onto the floor of  his cage. That connection the monkey has made between the problem and the solution is insight. It can be as simple as monkey and teddy or as complicated as Archimedes' discovering the principle of specific gravity while sitting in his bath.

Insight - The Cognitive Leap

Insight-some mat call it genius, other may call it "a cognitive leap". But actually it is a combination of motivation, hard work, and perseverance. If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely insight must be the midwife. It is possible, of course, to have a series of small insights and yet miss the most important one. 

Look more closely at "UNRELATED" things

Pay more careful attention to them than you usually do, and try to find something about them that is similar, ways in which they are alike. It is an experience designed to encourage you to discover aspects of things you hadn't noticed before and is an important part of the process of strengthening and building insight.

Look more closely at "RELATED" things

When you see closely related things in your environment, pay more attention to them you usually do and find pertinent ways in which they are not alike at all. This will also encourage you to notice significantly different properties of things that you may very well have been taking for granted. perhaps all your life. This is an even more important aspect of the process that produces insight.

Building a Logical Mind

How to Build a Logic

Logical Mind

"Reasoning is as natural and familiar a process as breathing but it is also a skill in which indefinite improvement is possible for anybody who is not a genius"

For a best logical approach, the first step is to become aware of the problem. The second is to define and analyze it, establishing its parameters. The third step it to approach it rationally from different angles, considering a number of options and various working hypotheses for its solution. And the last step is to select a solution and verify its effectiveness. 

Logical reasoning is something you will need to employ just about every day of your life. The more logical you are, the easier problems become, and the swifter and more painless their solutions. What you have learned of mathematical reasoning can easily be transferred to logical reasoning. They both work the same way, except that in logic, numbers are involved much less often, and when they are, they are not of such central importance.

A tough mathematical mind will make you intellectually potent in virtually all areas of analysis. The analysis of any problem and the separation of fact from fallacy is the key to solving any logical problem. And you don't have to know mathematics to have a mathematical mind. You can solve the same with your Logical approach too.

In everyday life, when you are confronted with a problem involving mathematics or containing logical or mathematical elements, move its factors around into a good sequential order much like the way that problems are described in an elementary math text. There are many ways to do this, so find one that works best for you. You might try it first in chronological order. If the problem doesn't lend itself to time framing. though, you might simply start with rearranging its components from the general to the more specific. This method often works, because problems typically flow that way. 

Don't think consciously about dealing with logic the way you used to think about mathematics as a difficult subject that must be learned. Instead, practice dealing with it more subjectively in the beginning, as a way to figure out thing and situations that are relevant to your own daily life. Just as your feelings should change about mathematics, they should change about logic. 

The point is, of course, that you can bring an objective logic to all sorts of questions, and it works equally well. If there is sufficient data in your premises, then your conclusion will be a valid one. Not only detectives in mysteries, but also computers work by deductive logic. If such and such is true, then this must be the conclusion.

If you are having trouble with a logic problem, go back through it and see if you are taking anything for granted. Making assumptions is one of the places where you can get into trouble, not just in logic problems, but also in life. If you can learn to stop doing that, it will stand you in good stead in both your professional and personal lives.

Mathematics a useful tools

What is Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is something agreed upon in communication. The language of Mathematics differs from everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. Mathematics allows you a extend your intellectual reach in that way it's similar to the pole a maintenance man uses to unscrew a ceiling light bulb that's out of his reach. It is a tool, there for you to use once you have learned to use it. On one hand, numbers are absolute and authoritative. They don't give an inch. An answer is either right or wrong. This absolutism terrifies many people and turns them off. 

Mathematics will serve you extremely well in your day to day life, in your home, in your workplace, and in the many areas of intellectual thought you may be exploring. You can trust math. Numbers are friends that are unchanging in their loyalty to the intellect. 

When you understand how numbers function with mathematical precision, you will save anything from little bits of time to huge blocks of time. It helps a person to make choices based on reality and logic rather than on guess work. A mathematically logical point of view helps you to take into account all possible factors and weigh them unemotionally according to their relative significance before adding in the emotional factors. Thinking mathematically will help you separate emotion and intellect confusing the two is absolute anathema to powerful intellectual functioning. 

There is nothing wrong with taking emotional factors into account as long as you recognize them for what they are feelings and not facts. A sound mathematical mind will help you discover which facts truly impact on any given situation and which have nothing to do with it.

The Brain and Intelligence

"The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement in fact, of nervous functions in general are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance."

An Overview of the Brain

Brain and Intelligence

For centuries we have understood that "he himself" was way off base, that, in fact, the opposite is true. The heart is simply a biological pump that brings oxygen flowing into our cells to keep tissue alive. It is the brain that controls movement, both voluntary and involuntary. Passion begins in the brain; so dies love, hate, pain, fear, wonder, imagination, inspiration, enthusiasm, apathy, speculation, mistrust, honor, a sense of humor, a craving for rocky road ice cream, and all other thoughts and feelings. The brain runs the slow, from the involuntary intake and outgo of breath to the voluntary embrace of beloved friend. 

The Brain is the far more complex organ than any superficial examination could reveal. It is composed of two major sections, the left and right cerebral hemispheres, which are almost, but not quite, mirror images of each other. Each of these hemispheres is composed in turn of four sections, the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe, and the temporal lobe. Separating these hemispheres and lobes are three fissures that look almost like crevasses within mountain ranges, the longitudinal fissure, the sylvian fissure, and the central sulcus. 

What is Intelligence?

What about intelligence? Does is arise from one single spot in the brain? Can we follow it to its source and pinpoint its location in this efficient but complicated network of cells, chemicals and fluids? The twin cerebral hemispheres control humankind's highest functions-those cognitive, ideational, and imaginative functions, the intelligence. The cerebral hemispheres may then be called the true home of our inner cosmos or our minds. This complex system functions in the body as we do in the world, through communication, through signals sent from one cell in the brain to the next. A single nerve cell in the brain consists of the branching fibers. Nerve signals are sent from the cell body down the path of the long fiber and out through the branches. Synapses are the link between nerve cells.

Who is is Operator of the Brain?

Your head may be the processor of your brain, but are you the one who operates it? Are you in control, or is your mind at he mercy of the buffeting, biting winds if life? The secret to a more powerful intelligence is twofold. First, you need to gain control of the raw material that pinkish gray matter inside your head on which so much of your life depends. Second, you need to widen your viewpoint to include every perspective; in short you need to stop seeing through your eyes alone and begin to see through universal eyes. The first will make you intellectually strong; the second  intellectually powerful.

However, one thing is certain. You can be smarter tomorrow than you are today. The mind can stretch it can be strengthened, toned, and conditioned to perform miracles for you.

Mental Fitness Exercise

Exercise to Mental Fitness

Mental Fitness

Brain Power Techniques is a program of mental exercise. it is cumulative which means that from maximum effect, you must expand the program and build on the exercises, adding new exercise to ones you have already mastered. You begin with a few minutes of stretches, to warm up and loosen the muscles. Then you might learn a set of exercise for the upper arms and shoulders and later, another for the legs, still more exercises for the lower back, and a different set of strengthening the chest and upper torso. You add these exercises gradually, but without discarding the ones you already do easily. So a workout program might start with ten minute of exercises, and by the end of the second week, you could be up to thirty minutes. By the end of the month, you could be doing a sixty minute workout using all the exercises you have learned.

Be aware of how you are thinking right now. How you arrive at opinions and make decisions. This self awareness is the first step in Brain Power Techniques. This program will help you reach an awareness of how your own special, individual mind operates.

We will start off slow and easy, building your vocabulary. You will work with what is familiar to you, your everyday reading of newspapers and magazines. This Mental Fitness Exercises will teach you how to take note of something new, how not to pass over the unknown without trying to know it, and how to use reference books to look up what you don't know.

After vocabulary, Brain Power Techniques moves to the Challenging exercises in mathematics and logic to prepare the mental ground for everything else to come. We hope to show you the beauty and simplicity of precise thinking and how important is to you.  Logic is the foundation of correct thinking. It is dispassionate and not tinged by emotions. Armed with the weapon of logic, you can now forge ahead boldly into new areas of thinking and problem solving. 

Increase the frequency of the exercises until they become part of you daily routine. As with a physical exercise program. this becomes easier as you practice.

Brain Power Techniques

INTRODUCTION

Brain Power

Our mind is the heart and spirit of our life. It is the one thing that can be taken from you and the on e thing that you can never give away. It is always yours, under your control. Build it, and you build the workings of your future. Let it stagnate, and you live in the past.

Whoever told you that you cannot increase your intelligence? Whoever taught you not to try?  they didn't know. Flex your mind and develop it. Use it. It will enrich you and bring you the love of life that thrives on truth and under standing. We have tried to contains the most effective direct methods and Practicals to build your brain power. and we have also provided various methods to incorporate into your way of thinking and into your daily perception of reality that can vastly improve your mind. 

The essence of Brain Power Techniques is the taking of active control of your thought processes, developing mental tools to approach difficult problems in effective fashion, freeing yourself from false assumptions and the mental hammer lock that lack of self confidence and over reliance on authoritarian opinion can have on you. You will learn to think with more clarity and with greater precision. You will learn to trust yourself. Your intelligence will expand and your interests will broaden. The only way to success is though persistence and hard work. The only efforts that can command all your energies are those are really worthwhile.

The human body can be strengthened and toned to muscular power through bodybuilding exercise, so the mind can be strengthened and sharpened through a program of Brain Power Techniques. Specific bodybuilding exercise are designed for specific muscles, making them work, stretch, and break through old limits to new limits. Brain Building Techniques works exactly that way on your intelligence, stretching and shaping your mind and bringing you to new heights of intellectual fitness. The key to any exercise is habit, the constant repetition that makes it second nature as automatic perhaps as breathing. 

Hereby we have tried to help to to build your mental muscles in the same way by showing you how to develop the habit of thinking. The Brain Power Techniques program is a trimester something like a school term. With our Brain Power Techniques you will acquire and learn to use the tools and techniques of power thinking. In our Brain Power Techniques program we have included some simple and difficult exercises, but the logic behind both the simple and complex exercises is the same to show you how to build your perceptions, sharpen your intellect, and open your eyes to new ways of thinking.

You will find the Brain Power Techniques program stimulating, challenging and fun. It is up to you to make the exercises work by incorporating them into your daily routine, making them a habit for a lifetime of improvement. If you make good use of them, we can with confidence promise you that Brain Power Techniques Program will help you to develop your intelligence and unlock the almost limitless power of your intellect, your perceptions, and your under standing. You will be able to bring these new found, newly developed skills and techniques to bear on every aspect of your daily life, including problem solving, decision making, business, and personal relationships. Once it becomes a habit, the techniques of Brain Power will be yours forever, your own permanent ky to thinking better and success.