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Summary: Why Waste 90% of Your Brain Power?
Review: A while ago, a friend strongly recommended this book, then purchased a copy and gave it to me as a gift. I placed it on a shelf in my study where it remained for almost a year. Frankly, the title (Super Brain Power) and subtitle (6 Keys to Unlocking Your Hidden Genius) seemed hyperbolic, as those of many other books are when devised to hype sales. For whatever reasons, I finally read it and then (with more curiosity than enthusiasm) began to complete the series of exercises during the prescribed 21-day period. Here are three conclusions of possible interest to those who read this review: 1. I have not as yet developed "super brain power." 2. Nor have I as yet unlocked my "hidden genius," 3. But I have strengthened significantly my verbal, visual, logical, creative, physical, and emotional skills. As is my custom while reading, I highlight key passages for future reference and reacquaintance. I plan to do so with this book while trying to apply more effectively the various strategies and tactics which Sine recommends. I share her high regard for Howard Gardner and Daniel Goleman and her appreciation of their breakthrough research on multiple intelligences and emotional intelligence, respectively. They and several of their publications are identified in the "Recommended Resources" section. Given the increasingly greater importance of innovation, many readers will be especially interested in what Stine has to say about "The Fourth Key" (Days 12-14) which may not unlock "creative genius" but can at least increase significantly one's "Creative IQ." I now presume to supplement her "Recommended Resources" list with Michael Michalko's Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius as well as Roger von Oech's A Whack on the Side of the Head, A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, and the most recently published Expect the Unexpected. As with so many other books of this nature, the benefits derived from this book will depend almost entirely on three factors: How important it is to you to strengthen all or at least some of your verbal, visual, logical, creative, physical, and emotional skills; next, how conscientiously you complete the 21-day program; finally, how diligently you continue to strengthen various skills. Years ago, Henry Ford is reputed to have said "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." The choice really is yours. What will it be?
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Summary: Pure drivel
Review: I bought this book new and I am going to throw it away because I would not even want to give it to anyone. I read it through and I can honestly say it has no redeeming value what-so-ever. It is all fluff and no real content. Don't waste your time or money reading this book. The author Ms. Jean Marie Stine should stick to reading books instead of writing them. This book is garbage.
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Summary: Nothing to see here!
Review: I ordered quite a few books about IQ, brain power, etc. over the last few years, and I really can't recommend this book to anyone.
Jean Marie Stine picks up some theory here and there, most probably taken from other self-help books (Anthony Robbins ahoy!) with "Science now says..." , "Scientists now know ..." added for effect.
And don't get me started on those exercises! Gah! Putting the word "Power" in front of all your techniques does NOT make them more appealing. She seriously just called all her techniques for "improving" your various IQ's "POWER-something". Power Talking, Power Reading, Power Listening, Power Imagining, Power Shaving, Power Taking A Crap in the Bathroom, Power Drinking, Power Eating (You get the message).
All these "Power"-things are simply techniques and exercises taken from other books and pasted into hers.
Does it work? I'll be honest: I don't know. I'm halfway through the book and don't plan on ever even trying out her 21-day plan (or whatever it is) to improve my IQ.
Do some maths, read some sophisticated literature - some classics and some scientific and more complex books, paint something, and your IQ will increase by itself. Don't waste your money on this book.
Still, I guess, if you want to have it, go on and buy it! I'm not stopping you, am I?
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Summary: A Good Read!
Review: Most people use only 10% of the power of their brain. Your thinking ability resides in six kinds of intelligence: verbal, visual, logical, creative, physical and emotional. Each one has a different function but, even setting aside the promises of the breathless title and subtitle, this book offers growth in each area with a simple and healthy collection of mental exercises. Author Jean Marie Stine states that you can develop your full intellectual capabilities as well as tap into that unused 90%. And, you probably want to, given her observation that people with highly developed skills in these areas are more likely to succeed than people without them. Therefore, she recommends that you read, look attentively at the world, learn to think in an orderly manner, be aware of body language and use all your abilities. Every chapter contains an inspiring yarn or two, and some beneficial exercises. So, we suggest, you start reading and learn to think in a whole new way. Imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness 100% of your mental powers.
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Summary: Not a genius, am I
Review: The author of this book has rudimentary college math skills (Bonehead math) for in her chapter on Math Wizardry -- her mathematics was off by loon or 15 marks on pg 135. And her methodology for deciphering multiplication problems of 25 x 34 would be difficult for a loon when one thinks that recognizing groups as 34/4 (100/25) = 8R2 = 850. And then me thinketh how profound her lessons are for those who can't add or subtract in thine head...maybe its a lesson to be learned where teachers with calculators in elementary are as rudimentary as adults today. I've learned something from this book, I learned there are 6 ways to unlock your hidden mensa (espanol version)...
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