Best books help you Change Way to Thinks
- Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.
Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally — to think, that is, like a Freak.
Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria.
Some of the steps toward thinking like a Freak:
- First, put away your moral compass — because it’s hard to see a problem clearly if you’ve already decided what to do about it.
- Learn to say “I don’t know” — for until you can admit what you don’t yet know, it’s virtually impossible to learn what you need to.
- Think like a child — because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions.
- Take a master class in incentives — because for better or worse, incentives rule our world.
- Learn to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded — because being right is rarely enough to carry the day.
- Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting — because you can’t solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud.
Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing — and so much fun to read
2. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind
Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis — no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio Kaku reveals, not only are they possible, but with the latest advances in brain science and recent astonishing breakthroughs in technology, they already exist. In The Future of the Mind, the New York Times-bestselling author takes us on a stunning, provocative and exhilarating tour of the top laboratories around the world to meet the scientists who are already revolutionising the way we think about the brain — and ourselves.
3. A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbersoffers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options — both to rise in the military and to explore other careers — she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.
In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to learning effectively — secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions — you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. The learning strategies in this book apply not only to math and science, but to any subject in which we struggle. We all have what it takes to excel in areas that don’t seem to come naturally to us at first, and learning them does not have to be as painful as we might think.
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Would you like to keep your brain agile and focused? Would you like to age-proof your brain so that it stays young, healthy and fit? Then this is the book for you! Train Your Brain is a book of puzzles, exercises, riddles, and brain games that will help boost your brain power and jump start your brain! Whether you are a teenager, young adult, or a senior citizen, this book provides a vigorous mental workout to help increase your memory, sharpen your deductive and mathematical skills, improve your observation, increase your problem-solving skills, and improve the overall health of your brain.
• More than 100 fun, brain-enhancing exercises, puzzles, and riddles.
• 50 neurobic exercises that you can practice anytime, anywhere.
• 66 popular games that will help you polish your cognitive skills.
5. Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads — literally — of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows how it’s possible for this couple, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today’s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it — and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
6. Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More, and Be More Productive
With over 300,000 copies sold, Unlimited Memory is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and has been the #1 memory book on Amazon for more than two years. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.
Most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory.
In this book, you’re about to learn:
How the World’s Top Memory Experts Concentrate and Remember Any Information at Will, and How You Can Too
Do you ever feel like you’re too busy, too stressed or just too distracted to concentrate and get work done?
In Unlimited Memory, you’ll learn how the world’s best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress and mistakes at work.
In this book, you’ll find all the tools, strategies and techniques you need to improve your memory.
Here’s just a taste of the memory methods you’ll learn in this book:
- The 3 bad habits that keep you from easily remembering important information
- How a simple pattern of thinking can stop you from imprinting and remembering key facts, figures and ideas, and how to break this old pattern so you’ll never again be known as someone with a “bad memory”
- How to master your attention so you can focus and concentrate longer, even during challenging or stressful situations
- How to use your car to remember anything you want (like long lists or information you need to remember for your studies or personal life) without writing anything down
- Simple methods that allow you to nail down tough information or complex concepts quickly and easily
- How to combine your long-term memory (things you already know and will never forget) and short-term memory (information you want to remember right now) to create instant recall for tests, presentations and important projects
- The simple, invisible mental technique for remembering names without social awkwardness or anxiety
- How using your imagination to bring boring information to life can help you dramatically improve your attention span and recall
- An incredible strategy for remembering numbers (the same system Kevin used to remember Pi to 10,000 digits and beat the world memory record by 14 minutes)
- How to use a mental map to lock in and connect hundreds or even thousands of ideas in your long-term memory (this method will allow you to become a leading expert in your field faster than you ever dreamed possible)
7. Calm Your Mind: Break the Cycle of Anxiety, Stress, Unhappiness, Exhaustions, and Find Peace in a Rushed World
Overwhelmed by the demands of a fast-paced world? Want to reduce your stress and anxiety?
Endless worrying is mostly the byproduct of unconscious living.
What makes you anxious: your lifestyle, your prospects for the future, or the shadows of the past?
If you’re desperate to slow down and find inner peace, mindfulness is the solution you’re looking for.
In Calm Your Mind, bestselling author Steven Schuster will help you to find back your way to the present moment following a few simple yet powerful principles. They don’t require more than a few minutes of practice daily. Their impact, however, is monumental with long-term benefits.
Improve your focus and productivity.
The book will not only show you the best practices to find peace of mind but will also help you transform these practices into daily, automatic habits. The wholeness you’re so keen to find is already within you. Practicing mindfulness is the key to channel those parts of your brain.
Learn to exclude the junk from your thoughts.
•Improve your focus and attention during your everyday activities
•How to bring awareness to your life and practice conscious living
•Become more decisive, disciplined, and calm
Become aware of the person you truly are.
•Learn how can you “calm your mind”
•The best tips to manage your energy
•The scientifically proven benefits of practicing mindfulness
•How to overcome your discouraging and negative thoughts
Stop being the victim of your circumstances. Be aware and thus prepared to overcome them.
Mindfulness helps you experience a deep feeling of happiness and peace. It seeps into everything you do. You can meet the worst that life throws at you with courage, discipline, and determination. Life will make sense because you’ll be in greater control of it.