Sort Your Brain Out

Boost Your Performance, Manage Stress and Achieve More

Jack Lewis, Adrian Webster

• Publisher: Capstone
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780857088901
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

OPTIMISE AND ENHANCE YOUR BRAIN

We all know that we're capable of more than what we're already accomplishing. But what if we discovered the tools we need to get the most out of our brain and achieve unheard-of mental performance?

CHANGE YOUR HABITS.
UNCOVER NEW LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE.

With expert guidance from accomplished neuroscientist, Dr. Jack Lewis, you'll discover how to unlock the hidden potential of your brain. Using simple tools and techniques you can use each day, Sort Your Brain Out will show you how to:

• Utilise the principle of neuroplasticity to transform your daily life
• Harness straightforward strategies to learn new behaviours
• Turn these behaviours into lasting habits and new skills
• Understand the latest developments in brain-enhancement
• Create better strategies for team innovation and problem solving

You owe it to yourself to squeeze every last drop of ability from the astonishing organ between your ears. Sort Your Brain Out is your roadmap to mental performance improvements you never imagined.

Index

• 7‐11 breathing, 167

• 60‐second skip, 140

• Acetylcholine
  • creation, 119
  • involvement, 120
• Achievers, success, 104
• Acoustic features, extraction, 83
• Action stations mode, 120
• Activities, time (diversion), 37–38
• Adams, Douglas, 70
• Adolescence, 30
  • maturation, 198
  • smartphone ownership, impact, 43
• Adrenal glands, hormones (impact), 160
• Adrenaline, impact, 139–140, 170
• Adult, childlike positive qualities (release), 74–75
• Ageing, positive beliefs, 222
• Age‐related cognitive decline (ARCD)
  • control, 255–256
  • deceleration, 242
  • life, continuation, 241–242
  • lifestyle choices, 248
  • resistance, language learning (impact), 247
  • signs, 240–241
• Age‐related psychiatric problems, onset, 253
• Aha! moment, 70
• Air pressure variations, conversion, 83
• Alarm bells, activation, 107
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 248
• Alcohol
  • brewing, benefits, 187–188
  • impact, 187
  • looseness, repetition (desire), 187
  • poison, 187–188
• Alcoholism, treatment, 191
• Alertness, increase, 98
• Altruists, groups (actions), 206
• Alzheimer's dementia
  • Alzheimer's disea...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• What This Book Is All About
• Introduction
• Your Amazing Brain
• Flying Start
• Old Dogs, New Tricks
• Cyber Heads
• Gone Fishing (for Great Ideas)
• Perception Is Everything
• To Do or Not to Do
• Food for Thought
• Born To Move: “Sitting Is the New Smoking”
• All Aboard the Stress Express!
• “Smart” Drugs
• Get Yourself Connected
• Mind over Matter
• Hold onto Your Marbles
• What's Next?
• Appendix: Brain Tube Maps for Easy Reference
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• About the Illustrator
• Index
• End User License Agreement