Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power - Hardcover

Hurley, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594631271 ISBN 13: 9781594631276

Publisher: Avery Pub Group, 2013

Synopsis

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter?

Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in 2008 showing that ?fluid intelligence”?the ability to learn, solve novel problems, and get to the heart of things?can be increased through training.

But is it all just hype? With vivid stories of lives transformed, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with acidtongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig, road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play the Renaissance lute, getting physically fit, even undergoing transcranial directcurrent stimulation.

Smarter speaks to the audience that made bestsellers out of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain and Moonwalking with Einstein.

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Review:

A rare thing: enjoyable reading that can also improve your life (Gretch Reynolds, author of 'The First 20 Minutes')

This may be the most important revolution of our time! (Carol Dweck, author of 'Mindset: The New Psychology of Success')

Smarter is an essential read (Daniel H. Pink, author of 'Drive' and 'A Whole New Mind')

About this edition

• Publisher: Avery Pub Group
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1594631271
• ISBN 13: 9781594631276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 275