Feel that memory has begun to play against you? Forget the right word? Can't remember the information you need? This is normal. The functions of the human brain, like the body, decrease with age, but do not despair. Just as physical exercises keep the body in good shape, specially designed programs help preserve the brain and pump memory. According to modern science, age has nothing to do with it. What to do? There is an answer to this question in many books on self-development.
What is intelligence?
The ability of the brain to mobilize reserves and use the accumulated information with maximum efficiency is intelligence. The search for solutions takes place on an intuitive level and does not lend itself to volitional management. Its level is influenced by various factors, including socio-cultural conditions and physico-chemical effects.
The development of intelligence is also determined by heredity. But this does not mean that the ability to think cannot be developed. The brain, like any organ, develops and trains. So he needs incentives: internal - thinking, external - information. There are a number of books for intellectual development that help to understand what the brain is, how it is structured, how to protect it and maintain its working capacity.
What to read?
"The rules of the brain." The author of the book, D. Medina, is a biologist, and he knows for sure that it is not necessary to perform only complex exercises to improve intelligence. Understanding the essence of the processes occurring in the brain is sometimes enough. The author managed to derive twelve fundamental rules, with which he shares with readers. They learn a lot of new and interesting things. For example, how to use sleep for intellectual development. The book readily explains how sleep and stress affect the functioning of the brain, how to protect yourself through exercises, how to better remember information and work more productively.
“Teach the brain to work” - the creation of M. MacDonald is written in a simple and accessible language, and is intended for a wide range of readers. The author tells why a person experiences emotions, wakes up in the morning or falls in love. Everyone knows what the brain does. But how? This book is a guide, which contains the most modern achievements of psychology, neurobiology. In addition, the author talks about nutrition. Suddenly? In this essentially scientific work, readers will learn how to think faster, improve memory, eat right and behave.
How to train the brain?
C. Phillips's “Super Exercise Machine for the Brain” is a collection of intellectual tasks that develop brain abilities. The author of the book is known as a master of puzzles, and in his work everything is arranged accordingly: at the beginning of the book there are simple puzzles, then more complex ones. The tasks located in the last chapters of this book to enhance intelligence are only possible for geniuses. What, in principle, can a reader become if he listens to all the advice of the author and solves all the problems.
S. Wootton and T. Horn, authors of the book “Super-Training for the Brain”, have collected useful little things in their work that will help to become more educated and smarter. The reader will find not only interesting tests, exercises and puzzles, but also tips on how to eat and arrange their lives. Following the recommendations of the authors of this entertaining book for the development of intelligence and memory, you can achieve obvious changes for the better: develop thinking (logical, visual, figurative, numerical, applied) and improve memory.
After reading these books, the reader will learn how to make the most of his abilities and will be able to carry out simple manipulations in his mind. The authors recommend books to everyone, including those people who are not accustomed to "stir gyrus." Of all the skills that the human brain is capable of, the most mysterious and important is memory. How does she work? Is it possible to remember everything? The authors of books about memory will answer these and other questions, as well as offer exercises for its development.
How to recover memory?
The authors of Super Memory, Marilya and Loreen Henner, offer a unique memory improvement program. Meryl is on the list of twelve people in the world with supernatural memories. She remembers everything to the smallest detail, right up to the events that occurred in early childhood. If you follow the advice of the authors and perform all the exercises proposed by them, you can not only significantly improve memory, but also increase the efficiency of the brain.
Psychologist A. Navarro in his book “Memory does not change” talks about the properties of the human brain, about how to develop memory and to maintain intelligence until an advanced age. Entertaining puzzles, games and tasks proposed by the author are suitable for readers of any age. This is one of the best books for the development of intelligence, it is very convenient in that the exercises are divided into levels, and everyone can choose the best training plan for themselves. After them, not only concentration and attention will improve, but age-related memory impairments will be restored.
Is memory a gift or a skill?
Intelligence and memory go hand in hand. A person with a phenomenal memory becomes not just a “piggy bank” of facts, but also acquires the ability to use all the accumulated information. Memory is a skill that can be developed, regardless of natural abilities. This is a workout. An expert in the development of memory Arthur Dumichev offers practical techniques in his book “Remember Everything”.
The author gives the results of various studies, explains the algorithm of the human memory and offers specific techniques for its development. Arthur himself remembers more than 22 thousand digits of the number “pi”, and explains in an accessible language to the reader how to remember a large amount of information and long rows of numbers, as well as solve quickly complex problems. What seemed impossible would become familiar after reading this book for self-development.
And also everyday affairs will not seem tiring, the saved mental energy can be used for new achievements and communication. And here it would not hurt to learn to speak beautifully and competently.
How to develop your own speech?
To become an interesting conversationalist, it is not necessary to be a philologist or linguist, it is enough to read fiction. It in itself enriches our speech. But it’s not always possible to read a lot, so specialized work will help to quickly “pump” speech skills.
Faithful helpers here will be, like classic classics, books to enhance the vocabulary of K. Chukovsky, “Living as Life” and “The Word Alive and Dead” by N. Gal, as well as creations of the authors telling about changes in the modern language:
- I. Levontin "Russian with a dictionary";
- M. Krongauz "Russian on the verge of a nervous breakdown";
- M. Aksenova “Do we know the Russian language?”;
- N. Rum “I want to speak beautifully”;
- V. Hrapp "From the Adam's apple to the apple of discord."
How to speak convincingly?
Communication is an integral part of life. This ability is not only to speak, hear and understand the interlocutor, but, at times, and to convince. How to learn to put in your speech the exact and correct meaning? To be able to maintain a conversation with a serious interlocutor? To be able to hold attention and captivate the listener? Books that are definitely on the list of the best books for intellectual development will help:
- C. Bredemeier, Black Rhetoric;
- R. Gandapas “The Kama Sutra for a speaker”;
- G. Kennedy “Agree on Everything”;
- L. King "How to talk."
Finally ...
It is impossible to make a universal list of books for intellectual development, therefore, improve your intellect sequentially. Let it become a habit:
- Read more books - this is a source of knowledge and useful information.
- Use dictionaries and encyclopedias - this is a storehouse of new words and facts.
- Communicate - everyone is an expert in any field: financial, spiritual or intellectual.
- Take an interest in everything, always and everywhere. In proportion to new knowledge, intelligence and vocabulary will increase.
You can be a specialist in any one field, but to know a little about everything, to be able to record what you read and build relationships with existing information is always useful.