Mind Games [antikvár]

s- i'ivIntroductionThe brain is a three-pound supercomputer with 100 billion nerve cells and more connections than there are stars in the universe. It determines how you think, feel, move, communicate, and stay alive, and yet it's composed of 85 percent water and some fleshy bits.It's a truly amazing achievement. You should be very proud of your brain because you grew it yourself. And the more you use it, the bigger and heavier it gets! Did you know that if all the neural connections between your brain cells were laid out end to end they would reach to the moon and back?That said, there's still an ocean of untapped potential in all that gray matter. So why not develop it? Use it rather than lose it! Some of the most extraordinary achievements have been made by people with ordinary brains. They just used them a little differently than other people.A quarterback wins games not just because of superior techniquebut because of his mindset. This book shows 50 ways to unlock some of the mysterious potential in your brain so that you can achieve things you never dreamed possible. Some of them are tricks, some are applied science, and others involve intriguing ways of relearning the way you think. Either way, it's all in the mind.