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I'm an author looking to get my work into readers' hand - it's available pay-what-you-want, similar to Humble Bundles but I've yet to secure a place in the eBook bundles for my novel.
I Don't like female readers, they really manage to ruin any good book. I like reads such as essays by Carl Sagan, Mein Kampf, generally Orwell. Astronomy would be preferred.
>inb4 meinkampf, essays by Carl Sagan, Mein Kampf....
Use the Mind Mapping technique to harness your brain power
Constantly ask questions that will get your brain working to find answers.
WHEN Leonardo da Vinci was learning how to draw at a young age, his Grand Master instructed him to draw an egg. He continued to draw the same egg for several months until he became frustrated. He felt he was not learning anything new and wanted to give up.
The Master told him, if he observed the egg closely, he would discover that not every side of the egg was the same and he should draw the eggs differently from one another. The Grand Master bad taught da Vinci how to look at things from a different perspective, no matter how common they may be.
Great geniuses like da Vinci possess a certain type of power which enable them to achieve great things. They are more creative, engage in critical thinking and tend to see things that "normal" people cannot. What is this so-called power? Can we think like geniuses and harness their power? Can we unlock the secrets of their minds?
Ask questions
When you start asking such questions, you are already practising what da Vinci was nurtured to do. He was always curious, had an inquisitive mind and asked all types of questions.
The first principle in developing the mindset of a genius is to be insatiably curious about all things. This helps you to develop an unrelenting quest for continuous learning. Your questions may be simple and may even make you look stupid, but it will help to activate the problem solving function of your brain.
Once your brain gets a question, it needs to complete the thinking process by finding answers to it. It naturally becomes uncomfortable if there is no closure to the question posed, and will still continue to find answers without you knowing. On the other hand, if you do not pose questions, the brain accepts the information as factual statements and will not start thinking critically.
Da Vinci was an avid learner, practising what his Grand Master taught him - to "open up" all his senses during learning. Our senses are similar to that of the computer's input devices like the keyboard and mouse.
Their main function is to enable data to be entered by the user, and deliver data to the Central Processing Unit for computing. Our multi-sensory organs such as our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin help us collect information about a certain subject and send it to the brain for analysis.
The continual refinement of our senses will help us to study the data faster, synthesise the information and analyse the issues more critically.
Mind Mapping
We are living in a complex world, thus our thinking needs to be upgraded with new learning behaviours and techniques. Geniuses practise whole-brain thinking - a synergetic way of thinking which involves both their left- and right - brained skills.
The left-brain skills are linguistics, arithmetic, logic and analysis. The right-brain skills involve music, visual colours, imagination, spatial awareness and day-dreaming. Great geniuses harness both to see things from different perspectives. Their whole brain approach helps them to invent things ahead of their time and to solve complex issues and problems.
Now that we have unlocked da Vinci's secret codes, start asking questions and you will find answer to harness your brain power. How? Map out your thoughts and use Mind Mapping as a new thinking technique.
It is a whole-brain thinking approach as it involves all your cortical skills such as pictures, words, lines, colours and spatial awareness. It is a structured thinking tool - it helps you to radiate your ideas, starting from the centre and branching out in all directions.
It aids in thinking associatively and divergently, generating ideas at a much faster and creative way. You can now use the Mind Maps to help you think of infinite possibilities even if things,seem impossible at first. It is the tool of a genius.
I'm searching for Bruce Feirstein's "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" Can't find it with google. Maybe somebody have this book on hard drive? PS: Excuse me for my english. I'm stranger.
Gentlemen, I'm looking for modern 'futuristic space thrillers' like Mass Effect. My space thriller knowledge begins and ends in Asimov, and I'm not reading Perry Rhodan stuff. Already posted on /lit/
Can any one please help me get this book? Office-Based Anesthesia: Considerations in Setting Up and Maintaining a Safe Office Anesthesia Environment 2nd ed
Ive tried libgen, bibliotik, and many other sources,
IS THE process of discovery hitting a dead end? Are there ever fewer paradigm-shifting revelations to be had? These questions speak more to the poverty of our imagination than to our grasp of reality.
Lately, practitioners of various disciplines have suggested that most of the truly great things have been discovered or invented. Some economists say we have already reaped the "low-hanging fruit" in technological innovation - in sanitation, transport and education, for example - and that future progress would not be as easy or productive. Some physicists argue that humanity is pushing up against the limits of what can be known.
One need not look far for evidence that such thinking is wrong - that the pessimism merely reflects our inability to fathom just how surprising our future discoveries may be. Consider a couple of findings announced just in the final two months of last year.
The first challenges a fundamental tenet of biology: that all living things are somehow programmed to age and die. Most scientists believe that, in general, as organisms pass maturity and get progressively older, their fitness and capabilities erode, and they become more likely to expire.
A new study finds that this pattern does not hold across all species. True, a 100-year-old human is about 20 times as likely to die in the next year -as a human of average age. But there is also a tiny-tubular creature found in freshwater lakes and ponds - known as a hydra - that shows no signs of ageing at all, according to the best available evidence. Keep one alive for 100 years, and you will find no physical difference to one just a few months old.
The hydra is not even the most extreme example. The desert tortoise seems to become more fit with age. Mangrove trees do, too. What we humans take as the norm is not at all the norm for other organisms.
The research opens a whole new world of questions and possibilities. If a hydra truly is "immortal", might it be possible to engineer the same genetic or molecular mechanisms into other organisms, including humans? Speculation that there could be a "final generation" of humans, once we have learnt to overcome ageing, might not be as crazy as many people think.
The second discovery has more cosmic implications: Astronomers using Nasa's Kepler space telescope found last year the closest thing yet to a planet similar to Earth in size and composition. Temperatures on Kepler-78b, as the planet is known, get far too hot for life as we know it. But its existence demonstrates that it is only a matter of time before we find a planet that could support Earth-like life.
In the past two decades, astronomers have discovered about 1,000 planets in orbit around other stars, and their techniques get 10 times more powerful every few years. Current estimates suggest that there should be roughly five billion Earth - like planets in our galaxy alone. Mr Michel Mayor, leader of the team that detected Kepler-78b, predicts that within five years, we will find an Earth-like planet cool enough to have liquid water - and potentially life of some kind. We are, in a sense, just beginning to turn on the lights in our universe. It is well within the realm of possibility that, in a decade or two, having discovered hundreds or thousands of Earth -like planets and monitored them with ever more sensitive instruments, we might discover another human-like intelligence in our universe. It is difficult to imagine the world-changing shock to human thinking that would come from making such contact.
I have chosen my examples quickly and only from the last two months. There are comparably shocking discoveries in areas such as neuroscience, where recent research has shown how sleep helps to restore and repair the brain, or technology, where physicists have made some significant steps in learning how to make ordinary objects effectively invisible. How about using plant xylem, ordinary tissues present in plants everywhere, to filter water for human consumption? The pace of discovery suggests that there are more innovations to come just as profound and far-reaching as the Internet.
None Of this is to say that innovation will solve all our problems or save humanity from its own environment of economic mismanagement. But discovery is certainly not dead - or even dying.
BLOOMBERG
The writer, a physicist and the author of Forecast What Physics, Meteorology And The Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economies, is a Bloomberg View columnist.
I'm looking for info on books with false covers. Lists of books that have had them, if they generally have only a false cover or if they use false pages in the front, ect.
