Building Mental Muscle: Conditioning Exercises for the Six Intelligence Zones

by David Gamon, Allen D. Bragdon

This text uses scientific discovery to reveal how to can maximize on the extraordinary power of the human mind. Why does depression destroy memory faster than age? How can changing your facial expression actually change your mood? Why is laughter so beneficial? How does men and women's brain function differ? Why are women less likely to suffer permanent language loss from the effects of a stroke? How can nicotine benefit the brain? "Building Mental Muscle" explains the complexities in the brain in a straight-forward manner, aided by illustrations and tests, detailing how the brain processes new information, how it stores data and how it can trick us. The authors have set conditioning exercises to help sharpen up the six zones of intelligence - memory; executive/social; mathematical; language; emotional response; and spatial visualization.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Psychology, Research, Self Help, Neuroscience, Health

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[N · Rating 1 out of 5]

Misleading title. Most of the chapters are redundant and boring. I am puzzled whether its an academic work or self-help or popular-puzzles book or an amalgam of everything. Not sure if there is any link between the content of the chapters and the quiz/puzzles in between them.

[La pointe de la sauce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic book for building mental muscle, I wish I knew these techniques 10 years ago.

[Usama Albastaki · Rating 1 out of 5]

لا يزيد عن أنه كتاب تسالي!
لم يعرض المعلومات بطريقة مفيدة بل كان سطحيا
لا أرف إن كانت النسخة الإنجليزية بنفس الرداءة!

[Anita · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book offers several fun exercise, and not just mental exercises, to tap into those rarely used parts of your brain and to connect those parts of your brain that can pinch hit for another part. I recommend this book.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good way to expand your mind

[L.S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good information in this book and plenty of exercises that will train your brain.

[Ghada Zain · Rating 4 out of 5]

اول كتاب قرأته في ثانوي
وسع مداركي وفتح عيني علي افكر جديدة وعالم جديد وحياة جديدة
جميل جدا