(c) 2011 Dorling Kindersley. All Rights Reserved. blank page How to be a GENIUS Written by John Woodward Consultants Dr. David Hardman and Phil Chambers Illustrated by Serge Seidlitz and Andy Smith (c) 2011 Dorling Kindersley. All Rights Reserved. CONTENTS 6 Your amazing brain MEET YOUR BRAIN HOW MEMORY WORKS 10 Mapping the brain 60 How you think 12 Left brain, right brain 62 What is memory? 14 Taking sides 64 Improve your memory 16 Nerves and neurons 66 Do you remember? 18 Brain waves 68 Paying attention 20 What is a genius? 70 Making associations 72 Albert Einstein COME TO YOUR SENSES PROBLEM SOLVING 24 Brain and eyes 76 How you learn 26 Tricky pictures 78 Mastering mazes 28 How you see 80 Puzzling patterns 30 Simple illusions 82 Intelligence types 32 Impossible illusions 84 George Washington Carver 34 How you hear 86 Logic 36 Sounds like? 88 Illogical thinking 38 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 90 Brainteasers 40 Taste and smell 92 Thinking inside the box 42 Sensitive senses 94 Mathematical thinking 44 How you feel and touch 96 Think of a number 46 Touch and tell 98 The magic of math 48 Tricking the mind 100 Spatial awareness 50 Magic tricks 102 Seeing in 2-D 52 Sensing your body 104 Thinking in 3-D 54 Body illusions 106 Invention 56 Intuition 108 Wernher von Braun 4 (c) 2011 Dorling Kindersley. All Rights Reserved. A WAY WITH WORDS YOUR BRAIN AND YOU 112 Learning to speak 138 Sense of self 114 Having a word 140 Personality types 116 Using language 142 What about you? 118 Words aloud 144 What makes you tick? 120 Reading and writing 146 Mary Anning 122 Jean Franςois Champollion 148 The unconscious 150 Dreams 152 Emotions 154 Mahatma Gandhi 156 Fear 158 Reading emotions 160 Body talk 162 Good and bad habits 164 Winning and losing THE CREATIVE MIND THE EVOLVING BRAIN 126 What is creativity? 168 How we got our brains 128 Are you a creative spark? 170 Charles Darwin 130 Boost your creativity