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Power Up
Your Mind:
Learn faster,
work smarter
Bill Lucas
NICHOLAS BREALEY PUBLISHING
Power Up
Your Mind
Learn faster,
work smarter
Bill Lucas
N
ICHOLAS
B
REALEY
P
UBLISHING
LONDON
First published by
Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2001
Reprinted (twice) 2002
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© Bill Lucas 2001
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asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lucas, Bill.
Power up your mind : learn faster, work smarter / Bill Lucas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
1. Learning, Psychology of. 2. Work--Psychological aspects. I. Title.
BF318 .L83 2001
153.1
5--dc21
2001035940
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that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the publishers.
Printed in Finland by WS Bookwell.
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 Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
Part 1 Get READY to Learn: Going beneath the surface
6
1 Unpacking Your Mind
8
Taking your mind out of its box
9
Your three brains
11
Your divided brain
13
Close-up on your brain
16
Five key principles
18
Brain or mind?
21
Brain food
22
Laughter, music, and sleep
25
Nearly unpacked
28
A day in the life of Annie’s brain
29
Unpacking your mind—in a nutshell
33
2Getting Ready to Learn
34
Checking your emotional readiness
35
Curiosity and emotional state
36
A hierarchy of emotional needs
38
Reading your own moods
39
An emotionally confusing world
40
Raising self-esteem
43
Learned optimism and the three Ps
46
The joined-up revolution
48
Mens sana in corpore sano
49
Brain gym
50
Getting to the spiritual dimension
51
A new sixth sense?
53
Getting ready to learn—in a nutshell
54
iv
Power Up Your Mind
3 Switching On Your Mind
55
Understanding your fundamental drives
57
Rewarding your own learning
59
A formula for motivation to learn
61
Motivation and the mind
63
Getting the big picture
64
Balancing challenge and threat
64
The importance of where you learn
67
Who you learn with
68
Getting your learning environment ready
69
The pressures of life
71
Overcoming barriers to learning
72
Switching on your mind—in a nutshell
75
Part II GO For It: Becoming a competent learner
76
4 Learnacy
78
Understanding yourself as a learner
81
Learning to use new techniques: the 5Rs
82
Learning about learning
83
The learning cycle
84
Different types of learning
86
Learnacy—in a nutshell
88
5 Understanding Yourself as a Learner
89
How you take in information
90
Dealing with information
95
Working out your learning style
96
Learning styles and information preferences
97
Learning styles and meetings
98
Understanding yourself as a learner—in a nutshell
101
6 Resourcefulness
102
Getting the big picture
103
Tuning in your mind
105
Breaking down your learning
106
Learning by imitation
108
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