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Super Brain Power

6 Keys to Unlocking Your Hidden Genius

Jean Marie Stine

FT Prentice Hall, 2000

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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. 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, getAbstract.com suggests, 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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Intelligence - It’s Not What You Think

Most people think intelligence can be measured by an IQ test. Yet the IQ test only measures one or two of your different kinds of intelligence.

Logical intelligence is quite important on this test, as is verbal intelligence, because if you do not understand the language in which your IQ test is written, or if you don’t get all the nuances of the questions, you will not do very well on it.

Many people score low on IQ tests and carry a lifelong burden - the burden of feeling dumb, stupid, subnormal and slow. Yet, the general IQ score misses many dimensions of human thought and fails to capture individual abilities.

Although some parents and teachers may rely upon IQ scores to help them determine curricula and expectations, many educators and parenting pros have known for a long time that the IQ test does not measure the full range of a person’s innate intelligence. In fact, individuals have six distinct intelligences, almost as autonomous as if they were six different brains. They are:

The intelligence of words.
The intelligence of vision.
The intelligence of logic.
The intelligence...

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Jean Marie Stine has written more than two dozen nonfiction books including Double Your Brain Power, It’s All In Your Head: Amazing Facts about the Human Mind, The Best Guide to Motivation and Writing Successful Self-Help/How-To Books. She conducts seminars on brain power, speed learning and business writing.

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