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Power Up Your Mind
Book

Power Up Your Mind

Learn Faster, Smarter

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001 plus...

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Scientific
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

In Power Up Your Mind, Bill Lucas attempts to teach readers how to learn. To accomplish this goal, he sets out to provide a blueprint to the workings of the human brain through easy-to-grasp descriptions and illustrations designed to explain how the brain ingests and processes information. What’s lacking is a comprehensive review of the basic theories of learning that experts have deduced from the biological structures and mental functions that Lukas describes. Nevertheless, getAbstract recommends this book for its theoretical insights and practical advice about learning and memory.

Take-Aways

  • Human brains like to explore and understand the world, make connections, create patterns and imitate. They don’t perform well under excessive stress.
  • People have three brains: the reptilian brain, which handles basic functioning, the limbic brain, seat of the emotions, and the cortex, the center of higher learning.
  • The left side of the brain primarily handles logic and rational processing; the right brain primarily handles creative and associative processing.

About the Author

Bill Lucas is the founding CEO of the Campaign for Learning. He is a well-known speaker, facilitator, strategist and consultant in the learning field, and he has advised many organizations, including Lloyds TSB, Accenture, Centrica, BT, and the Department of Trade and Industry and Education in Great Britain. He is co-author of more than 20 books, including The Future of Corporate Learning.


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    J. C. 6 years ago
    Very informative and timely especially when AI is on the rise. Scary to know that machines can now think of us. Reading this abstract will help me teach my students how to thank and some of the functionalities.
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    C. P. 7 years ago
    a lot of helpful information in one place! Thank you^^
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    L. A. 1 decade ago
    I found this information to be fantastic and thoroughly invigorating!