Thinking Better

Many decades ago I came across this book. I loaned it out and it was returned a decade later. It was the most helpful book I had while in high school. I highly recommend this book to all parents for their children. It was especially helpful in test taking.

Thinking Better: A Revolutionary New Program To Achieve Peak Mental Performance - The Psychologist's Clinically Tested Five-Step Program Five Steps to Successful Thinking: This book is a book about your brain and ways of making it work at peak efficiency. In five easily mastered steps you will learn how every major aspect of intellectual performance can be substantially increased. We will show you how to assess your individual styles of learning, problem solving, and decision making - and then explain how such knowledge can be used to enhance the speed and efficiency of all kinds of thinking, to acquire new wealth and power, as information - the ability to apply it. Two psychologists, working with a Mind Potential Team of teachers, psychiatrists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and management experts, have spent years perfecting this program that will make you capable of almost limitless intellectual attainment. By learning streamlined new brain programs, you can liberate your mind from a straitjacket of stale perceptions and ineffective old habits and achieve peak mental performance for the rest of your life. Now you can: ** Solve all types of problems with ease and confidence ** Achieve a higher score on any IQ test, even a tricky one ** Make the best possible decisions, no matter how complex and confusing the choices ** Lean anything new, even a foreign language ** Balance your creativity so you can dream up original solutions and enjoy a powerful imagination ** Reduce mental stress while working under pressure ** Do more work in less time, using your brain more effectively Anyone can learn to think better at any stage of life. Thinking Better will unlock the hidden powers of your mind. Authors are David Lewis, PHD, a psychologist trained in neurology and James Greene MA, an industrial psychologist and consultant.