Product Description

Boosting your brain power doesn't have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive bookworm. "Super Brain" is packed with tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to lifestyle, diet and behaviour, that can help to flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells. This book offers positive strategies for all ages to boost your memory, improve your powers of concentration and enhance creativity, as well as groundbreaking advice on: the ultimate Mastermind diet; how to fine tune your brain with music and rhythm; tips and hints for better sleep; and exercise routines and yoga postures to improve your brain power. With 101 exercises for your brain, Carol Vorderman shows that mental decline isn't inevitable with age.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238146 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 239 pages

From the Publisher
In this lively, accessible book, bestselling author Carol Vorderman shows how you can improve your mental agility

About the Author
Carol Vorderman is the bestselling author of a series of Detox and Sudoku titles. She has been the numbers face of Countdown with the late Richard Whitely for over two decades and a popular TV-presenting personality in her own right. She was awarded an MBE in 2000.

Excerpted from Super Brain: 101 Easy Ways to a More Agile Mind by Carol Vorderman. Copyright © 2007. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
What's Your Brain Type?

Do you watch the clock constantly, or wait until the rumble of your stomach
reminds you it's time to take a break? Do people say you are `down to
earth' or `up in the clouds'? These characteristics are associated with
your brain type. Typically, dominant left-brainers are meticulous, precise,
organised and think things through practically and logically. They feel
happier when they have guidelines, rules and schedules to follow. On the
other hand, right-brainers are dreamers. They are often more spontaneous,
imaginative and intuitive than cautious left-brainers and tend to follow
their gut feelings.

Most of us are neither strongly logical nor strongly intuitive but
somewhere in between - and that's perfectly normal. Everyone is different
and has characteristics of both types. Though right-brain thinking is often
regarded as more `creative' than left-brain thinking, there is no right or
wrong here. They are merely two different forms of thought process. One is
not better than the other, just as being right-handed is not `superior' to
being left-handed.

What's important is to stretch your mind by trying out different ways of
thinking. Whatever your natural preference, your brain will be stimulated
by these exercises. If you are strongly practical and logical (left brain),
pay particular attention to the creativity, communication and memory
exercises. If you are strongly intuitive and creative (right brain), the
concentration, problem-solving and reaction sections are especially
significant for you.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic for mental stimulation
This is the just the kind of book I needed after the Christmas and New year slow down. It's packed full of exercises and quirky tips to jump start your brain and help you see things from a new perspective. Carol Voderman has done a fantastic job here. This is a book I shall turn to over and over again throughout the year for mental stimulation.

Over-rated
I bought this book, hoping to improve my mental agility. My particular interest is in mental arithmetic, and performing fast calculations.
I have never been fooled into believing this author is particularly good at mental arithmetic, despite the reputation she has for being so.
I was hoping to gain some tips for a general improvement in mental agility. Sadly this was not to be. In fact I feel the vast majority of the book was a complete waste of time reading.
I have found this book a complete waste of time, and