Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power - Softcover

Hurley, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241964970 ISBN 13: 9780241964972

Publisher: Penguin, 2015

Synopsis

Can you make yourself smarter?

Scientists have always believed that the one thing that couldn't improve was intelligence.

But now science journalist Dan Hurley investigates the new field of 'intelligence training', showing that intelligence can be flexible and trainable.

With vivid stories of lives transformed, insight into the latest groundbreaking scientific discoveries and narrating his experiences as a human guinea pig, Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Hurley is an award-winning science journalist whose 2012 feature in The New York Times Magazine, "Can You Make Yourself Smarter?", was among the magazine's top-10 most-emailed articles of the year. Dan has also written on the subject of increasing intelligence for the Washington Post and Neurology Today. Over the past 20 years he has written hundreds of science articles for publications ranging from Wired and Men's Health to Psychology Today. Smarter is his fourth book. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children, where he has a secret identity as the 60-Second Novelist, writing people's life stories in under a minute.

From the Back Cover

Can we really make ourselves smarter?

For over a hundred years science has told us that our intelligence is fixed. You're either born clever or you are not, there's nothing you can do about it. But the latest research tells us science got it wrong.

In Smarter Dan Hurley reveals how new fields in intelligence research show that our mental faculties can be simply and significantly improved. You'll discover the secrets of :

IQ - how it works (and often doesn't)
boot camps for your brain - do workouts provide real benefits?
pills and super foods - the truth behind the extraordinary claims
Fitness, learning a language or an instrument - do they really help?

Exhilarating and inspiring, Smarter puts the science to the test and provides insight for anyone who wants to better their own thinking, give their children the best start in life or to stave off the rapid decline of advancing years.

'Chatty, personal, an easy read - even for those of us with untrained brains' Washington Post
'That rare thing: enjoyable reading that can also improve your life... Beautifully explained, engaging and inspiring' Gretchen Reynolds, author of The First 20 Minutes

'An essential read, riveting' Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind

'This may be the most important revolution of our time!' Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 'Intriguing, enjoyable, makes you think' Observer

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241964970
• ISBN 13: 9780241964972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304