7 Books That Will Train Your Brain to Overachieve. The human brain is the most powerful tool you can possibly possess.
Are you training and using your brain to its full potential? These seven books will help you achieve the peak performance you’ll need to compete, today and in the future. 1. Curious Subtitle: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It Author: Ian Leslie 5-second summary: Harness your natural curiosity to develop the ability to think more broadly and deeply. Best quote: "Curious learners go deep, and they go wide. Fun factoid: Your brain stopped growing when you were 18 but continues to make new neurons throughout your life in response to mental activity. 2.
Author: Daniel Kahneman 5-second summary: Your success in life depends upon mastering your brain's two systems, one of which is fast, intuitive, and emotional, and the other of which is slow, deliberate, and logical. Fun factoid: The human brain activates (fires) roughly 20 quadrillion neurons every second. 3. Authors: Steven D. 4. Author: Charles Duhigg 5. 32 Books That Will Actually Change Your Life. Top 10 Websites to Download Free Audio Books. Comparing to eBooks, audio books (or audiobooks) are available for you to read when you are doing something else, and what is more, you can also learn how to read the books fluently.
There are many websites (such as Free-eBooks) for you to download free ebooks, and to download free audio books, you can check out below 10 most popular websites: 1. LibriVox. Top Ten (Actually Eleven) Most Anticipated Books for 2015. I don’t really track new releases if I’m not in the middle of a series, which I’m not currently, so I had to do some research…but as you can see, I found quite a lot of new releases to be excited about!
(I didn’t realize until I had already written this post that it was supposed to be debut novels…some of these are debuts, some aren’t. Sorry XD) The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins. I’d been hearing a lot about this book, and actually tried to order it on Amazon (where, oddly, it said that it was “out of print”) late last year before realizing that it wouldn’t be published until this year.
25 Books That Define Cool. Let’s abandon the childish notion that reading isn’t cool.
We’re grown men here and reading happens to be one of the many ways we enjoy spending a bit of our free time. Of course, sitting down with just any book doesn’t always make for a great experience. We want to read something with wit, masculinity, and a pervading sense of effortless cool. Here are 25 books that fit that description perfectly. 1. This list could easily include just about everything Papa Hemingway wrote. 2. Written over 2,500 years ago, The Art of War is still as important today as it was for warriors back then. 3. Honestly, you could put just about every book from the good doctor on this list – Hell’s Angels and The Rum Diary come to mind – but if you had to pick one, you have to go with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and all its drug-fueled insanity. 4. 5. You’ve probably seen the movie, but have you read the book it was based on? 6. 7. Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - Selected Fables - 656+ fables. 3000 Free Audio Books + eBooks, Download for iPhone, Android, Kindle and more!
Riddles Test your intelligence Test your IQ Common Knowledge Questions Are you Smart "I wanna ban greenpeace cos they're trying to save the bloody planet that hit me on the head last time I came home from the pub." - Bandicoot, Osso Booko. These are interesting riddles that will test your ability to both think out of the box and to utilize some common knowledge.
Test your IQ!!! Collection 1 1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff. Unsorted [/writers] James Patrick Kelly - Murder Your Darlings - "When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings.
" Greda Vaso - Determining the Readability of a Book - includes formulas for Gunning's Fog Index, Flesch Formula, Powers Sumner Kearl L. Kip Wheeler - Literary Terms and Definitions L. Category:Puzzles. Demystifying the Creative Process. “I’m not creative.”
“I wish I could be more creative, but I don’t have it in me.” “Why are some people creative and others aren’t?” If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard those statements or questions… The truth is almost everyone has creative potential. What separates good creatives (or dormant creatives that get lucky) is that they’ve learned how to walk through the creative process. A large part of the problem is that there is an air of mystery and mysticism around the creative process. So, let’s take a few minutes and demystify the creative process. The Four Steps of Creativity We’ve known for a long time that the creative process can be broken down into four distinct processes, most of which can be fostered and augmented.
PreparationIncubationIlluminationImplementation I’ll spend some time on each step. Preparation This is the first phase of what most call work. The reason I say most call this phase “work” is because these processes may or may not be inherently enjoyable. Incubation. Games for the Brain. Book-A-Minute Classics. Got another book report to do?
English teachers have the inconsiderate habit of assigning mammoth-sized works of literature to read and then actually expecting you to do it. This wouldn't be so bad except that invariably the requisite reading is as boring as fly fishing in an empty lake. Half of those books don't even have discernible plots. And let's face it -- the Cliff's Notes are pretty time-consuming too. Worry no more. "That's nice," you say, "but I don't believe you. " Latest additions: 4/6/12 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. And, on Book-A-Minute SF/F...