How to be a Genius: Your Brilliant Brain and How to Train It

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Use your eyes, ears, and imagination to explore your amazing mind and sharpen your wits. Want to paint like a prodigy, experiment like a scientist, or even invent the next new technology? Put your grey matter to the brain-training test and see how you measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history. Tackle brain-boggling puzzles, games, and optical illusions and discover what makes your brain work: from why you smile to what is going on inside your head and what side of your brain does what. Learn about neurons, how memory works and how to boost your creativity. This ebook makes a complex subject fun, accessible and exciting, and is perfect for any child, whether they are intent on becoming a genius or just want to have fun with clever activities at home, on a journey or in school. CONTENTS Your amazing brain MEET YOUR BRAIN Mapping the brain Left brain, right brain Taking sides Nerves and neurons Brain waves What is a genius? COME TO YOUR SENSES Brain and eyes Tricky pictures How you see Simple illusions Impossible illusions How you hear Sounds like? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Taste and smell Sensitive senses How you feel and touch Touch and tell Tricking the mind Magic tricks Sensing your body Body illusions Intuition HOW MEMORY WORKS How you think What is memory? Improve your memory Do you remember? Paying attention Making associations Albert Einstein PROBLEM SOLVING How you learn Mastering mazes Puzzling patterns Intelligence types George Washington Carver Logic Illogical thinking Brainteasers Thinking inside the box Mathematical thinking Think of a number The magic of maths Spatial awareness Seeing in 2-D Thinking in 3-D Invention Mária Telkes A WAY WITH WORDS Learning to speak Having a word Using language Words aloud Reading and writing Jean-Franςois Champollion THE CREATIVE MIND What is creativity? Are you a creative spark? Maya Angelou Boost your creativity Creative exercises Leonardo da Vinci YOUR BRAIN AND YOU Sense of self Personality types What about you? Mary Anning The unconscious Dreams Emotions Rigoberta Menchú Fear Reading emotions Body talk Good and bad habits Winning and losing THE EVOLVING BRAIN How we got our brains Charles Darwin How the brain grows Brain surgery Animal intelligence Train your pet Can machines think? Program your friend Glossary Answers Index Acknowledgments