Beyond IQBeyond IQ:  Scientific Tools for Training Problem Solving, Intuition, Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and More by Garth Sundem is a helpful guide that delineates activities to enhance your cognitive ability.

IQ (Intelligence Quotient) is important but your mental ability is comprised of many other factors.  Sundem discusses a number of factors leading to your mental acuity.  The chapters address the following topics:

Insight
Practical Intelligence
Problem-solving
Creativity
Intuition
Your Brain on Technology
Experise
Working Memory
Keeping Intelligence
Wisdom
Performance Under Pressure
Emotional Intelligence
Willpower
Multitasking
Heuristics and Biases

Each chapter provides a brief description of the topic along with recent research and a number of cognitive exercises.   You will find a number of helpful principles and exercises to enhance your thinking skills.  The chapter on Multitasking is well written revealing a balanced approach supported by recent research.

If you’re looking to enhance your mental ability, you may find this a helpful resource.   (I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.)

 

RickAssociate Pastor – Discipleship.  The Church at LifePark

Professor of Discipleship, Columbia International University

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