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Mind Zones: IQ Power Up: 101 Ways to Sharpen Your Mind
Helps you to enhance your reasoning powers and increase your ability to absorb and analyze information. This book provides many techniques for maximizing your IQ, as well as teaching a range of skills to that go beyond IQ, such as using knowledge trees, intelligent mindfulness, time frame thinking and emotional intelligence.
- GenresNonfictionPsychology
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2008
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July 9, 2018
Not sure whether I like or dislike this book. There's a lot to like, but I'm kinda disappointed that it didn't go a little further. I mean, here's a book that's about strengthening aspects of intelligence and becoming a better person, and yet - it's all a little blah. There's nothing cutting edge here. I would have expected a proponent of such practices to have employed them a little more - that's all.
November 30, 2017
An intriguing read. It covered more than just intellectual intelligence but also encouraged the importance of maintaining physical health and learning about emotional intelligence too.
January 27, 2021
ALLways enjoy getting some new little snippets of info, even from the not-so-heavy volumes of literature.
July 30, 2011
I read this one shortly after finishing Van Oech’s book, _A Whack On the Side of the Head_, and was initially tempted to round-file it. It’s a tad New-Agey, and rife with wearyingly common "self-confidence" and "self-esteem" bulls**t.
Moreover, I’m very suspicious of modern psychology’s "intelligence increase" fringe, as its literature more closely resembles a dreary collection of "Human Potential Movement" shibboleths brushed with a patina of pseudo-scientific terminology than the language of hard science. I’ll agree that in some individuals, IQ can be increased via better nutrition and mental stimulation during early childhood – but that’s it, until evidence convinces me otherwise. I’ll also concede that an adult can learn to use his/her mind more efficiently (recent research into the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia strongly suggests it, so I won’t argue). The human mind, however, is very complex -- too complex (and susceptible to far too many influences) to subject to reductionist, determinist pigeonholing and pat formulae. Until I see more hard evidence, I won’t concede that mere mind-games actually increase a typical adult’s IQ.
Despite its title (and questionable premises), though, this book has its merits. Practiced regularly, many of its exercises and games can lead to increased mental efficiency – if not increased capacity.
Moreover, I’m very suspicious of modern psychology’s "intelligence increase" fringe, as its literature more closely resembles a dreary collection of "Human Potential Movement" shibboleths brushed with a patina of pseudo-scientific terminology than the language of hard science. I’ll agree that in some individuals, IQ can be increased via better nutrition and mental stimulation during early childhood – but that’s it, until evidence convinces me otherwise. I’ll also concede that an adult can learn to use his/her mind more efficiently (recent research into the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and senile dementia strongly suggests it, so I won’t argue). The human mind, however, is very complex -- too complex (and susceptible to far too many influences) to subject to reductionist, determinist pigeonholing and pat formulae. Until I see more hard evidence, I won’t concede that mere mind-games actually increase a typical adult’s IQ.
Despite its title (and questionable premises), though, this book has its merits. Practiced regularly, many of its exercises and games can lead to increased mental efficiency – if not increased capacity.
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