GOOD THINKING!!

Attended this course in SIM for 2 days. Nice to see master Buzan again. This course is about our brain and our attitude towards its capability.

Here are the condensed summary of the content:

Revolution of the mind - from Agrian (10,000 yr) to Industrial (200 yrs) to Information (50 yrs) to knowledge (20 yrs) to Intelligence. We are now in the age of multiple intelligencies. Labour - this word would mean thinking ppl in the near future!

Correct formula for the brain to operate properly : so as to be more creative

1. Play imagination games (nuturing/sharpening)

2. Daydream!! and follow to make your dream real

3. Mirror / copy - and improve!!

4. learning for life - new subject every year - start with book suitable for 10 yr old

5. Healthy body = health brain so keep fit

6. Nature your brain cells...they will grow and connects - that's intelligence.

7. Attitude - I am naturally talented...as everyone else

So what did the brain need?

1. Oxygen!! plenty of it so exercise to have a gd heart and lungs to ensure supply

2. Sensory stimulation

- listen like musician

- Taste like Chef

- touch like a good lover

- move ike a dancer

- talk like a story teller

3. Rest, relax and solitute - this is where real good and deep thinking happens

4. Friendship / love and affection

5. Diet - - good food good brain, junk food junk grain...even worse...garbage in Garbage GROWS!!!

Next left brain vs right brain :

we always hear ppl say music / arts use right brain...science / engineering use left brain. WRONG!! All subjects uses BOTH side of the brains.

so we have to study the art (beauty of knowledge) of science, and study the science (geometry / lines shapes / numbers) of Art. And to believe every thing is connected to one another, so you are infact interested actually in EVERYTHING. Once interested...your senses will open up and your power of memory will increase.

Next the brain priciples:

1. synegetic

2. T.E.F.C.A.S.

3. Persistance

4. success

One of the exercise is to mindmap MY JOB. this is what I came up with:

IQ = verbal x mathematical x Personal x social x ethical x spacial x physical x senory !! multiply not add....!!

only the 1st 2 are overwhelmingly tought in school...the rest...is as important!!

Last but not least : our brain is naturally positive and is use less than 1%, so its capability is actually infinite!! So have a personal goal now and tell your brain :

I am becoming ______ ( something +ve). like : more patient, more non-judgemental. that's my own input. What's yours?