Too much intelligence may be harmful

Perhaps excessive cleverness is not the best thing. This is claimed by scientists who speak of a ceiling on the level of intelligence of people, which acts as a “shield”. Scientists at Warwick University in Great Britain and their colleagues from the University of Basel in Switzerland have been studying the human evolution trying to find out why the level of intelligence is a...

10 ways to enhance your brain power

If you are one of those people who are looking to increase their creativity and productivity, then this list of activities and ideas is for you. Probably, you might have already tried some of these things before, but perhaps some other ideas from this list will surprise you. 1. Learn a foreign language Mastering a foreign language is a fairly complex process, which we often encounter in ...

5 simple ways to increase self-confidence

Self-confidence is one of the key personal qualities necessary for success. Here are 5 ways to develop self-confidence, presented in the book The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz. Use them in life, and you will certainly become successful. 1. Sit in the front rows Usually in lectures, conferences, briefings and seminars the back rows of the classroom are filled first. People wh...

Hypnosis: physiological evidence

Group of researchers from Finland and Sweden found the first physiological evidence of hypnotic trance, having studied in detail an aspect which previously had been ignored by scientists. Despite the long history of the study of hypnosis, scientists still have no consensus on the essence of this phenomenon. Some believe hypnosis is a particular altered state of consciousness. Others argu...

Simple Way to Unlock the Hidden Power of your Brain

Possibilities of our brain are infinitely vast. If you do your own brain workout, you can get enormous opportunities and achieve success in business, career and communication. A person owes all his achievements in work, studies or society to the hard work of his brain. Brain activity is important for pupils and students, businessmen and employees. Everyone knows that learning new things,...

Top 10 secrets of body language

Although you may know much in your personal or professional area, your knowledge will be useless if you do not know how to share it with others. And it’s not just about the words you use. This refers also to non-verbal communication or body language that shows up in any communication situation. Here are ten tips on how to use your body language to communicate your ideas more succes...

Why Many Smart People Have Communication Difficulties

Have you ever had problems in maintaining a conversation with other people, despite the fact that you consider yourself a pretty smart person? If so, then most likely this left you puzzled and you were surprised by your own inactivity, since you know so many interesting things. The fact is that social skills and intelligence do not necessarily go hand in hand. In fact, people with an ave...

Can some people really see sounds?

It is true that some of us can actually see sounds. It was discovered that this “weirdness” may take place in cases when the parts of the brain associated with vision are small. This discovery is connected with a strategy used by the brain when the vision may be impaired, the study adds. Scientists paid a little more attention to the sound caused by the illusion of flash. Whe...

8 tips on how to remember dreams

If someone who usually forgets his dreams uses some of these techniques, he will gain access to another part of his life – the mysterious world of dreams. 1. Develop the habit to record something every day upon waking. All new habits take about 21 days to develop, so record something every morning for 21 days. Even if you do not remember your dreams, write something as soon as you wake u...

Possible to read each other’s minds, say scientists

Researchers from the University of Technology in Sydney, led by Dr Trisha Stratford have found out that some couples are so harmonious that their brain starts working “on the same wavelength”. This is the first scientific confirmation of the existence of the so-called sixth sense or telepathy in particular. Many of us have ever had a feeling that someone is literally reading our thoughts...

Migration to another galaxy may be the future of humanity?

The paradigm of eternal intelligent life has set environmental problems on Earth. Yet, it is not a question of tens or hundreds of years of the fate of human civilization, but of thousands and millions of years. In recent years cosmologists speak of so-called space time foam, of which many universes are born, and our universe is just a tiny “bubble” of this foam. Thus we can ...

Does telephone telepathy exist?

Has it ever happened to you to hear the phone ringing and know who is calling without looking at the number on the screen? Rupert Sheldrake is a British biologist known for his “heretical” scientific views and his experimental research on telepathy. It is an interview where he speaks of “telephone telepathy” – the ability of some people to understand who is ...

What can the third eye see?

The third eye is essentially a “blind” pituitary gland (or, to put into simple words, an autonomous “tube” that has neither the beginning nor the end) which is located at the base of our brain and, according to medical science, has no reason to exist. That is to say, it is something that the science has not yet found a role for. However, from ancient times, the my...

4 answers to what happens when we die

Despite the enormous strides in science in the last decades, it still cannot give an explanation of what happens to us after we die. At the same time, many studies on near-death experiences show that these fleeting, almost supernatural experiences are reported by hundreds of thousands of people who have been on the shores of death. This combination of progress and lack of results has led...

Immune system can be controlled by thought

Movies about psychics often show how they whisper a spell over a bleeding wound, and it skins over; or how they look closely at a terminally ill person, and he immediately gets better. Physicians call such healers frauds. However, recent studies have shown that immunity can be controlled by thought. In particular, our brain is able to influence the intensity of the allergic reaction. Suc...
     

Brain Power

Learn how to use the potential of your brain: tips and strategies to boost your brain power

Simple Way to Unlock the Hidden Power of your Brain

4 weeks ago
by Anna in ,

brain powerPossibilities of our brain are infinitely vast. If you do your own brain workout, you can get enormous opportunities and achieve success in business, career and communication.

A person owes all his achievements in work, studies or society to the hard work of his brain. Brain activity is important for pupils and students, businessmen and employees. Everyone knows that learning new things, reading books, watching educational programs have a positive effect on the brain.

But how to develop a way of thinking that would activate the parts of the brain that have not been involved before? Brain training does not require a lot of time, 15 minutes a day will be quite enough. (more…)

Expanding Your Mind – Learning For Success

1 month ago
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expand mind learningWhen learning, it’s important to broaden your horizons as much as possible; this means reading widely, and learning more about subjects that you might not normally be interested in. It also means making use of the many free and inexpensive resources available to you on and offline, as well as changing how you learn; doing so can help you towards a higher degree of employability, and can also set you up for lifelong learning.

Reading More 

Just taking the time to read more every day can make a big difference to your education; try to read the newspaper online, and cover multiple papers to get a different point of view. It’s also possible to broaden your horizons by reading a wide range of different genres, which can be particularly useful if you’re into the habit of reading the same authors. While it’s not a good idea to force yourself to read things you don’t want to, it’s worth sampling as much as you can.  (more…)

Psychological Concentration Test: Optical Illusion

1 month ago
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Here is an optical illusion of motion and color perception, which can reveal if you have normal psychological concentration.

This psychological picture test shows the amazing ability of the human brain, and perhaps, after a successful outcome of the test, it will make you wonder if we perceive the world correctly or maybe our brain deceives us. What if what we see around us is a kind of illusion of perception? (more…)

10 Tips from a Person Who Knew 17 Languages

2 months ago
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language learningKato Lomb, despite holding a chemistry degree, was one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world and could fluently translate into eight languages, and in general knew and worked with 16. It is amazing that in her time there were no audio CDs with the voices of native speakers, Skype tutors, or language schools… So how did she manage to learn so many languages?

In her best-selling book “How I learn languages”, she revealed ten simple rules for language learning:

1. It is necessary to practice a foreign language every day. It is like the gym: if you want to have impressive muscles, train them regularly! Dedicate at least 10-15 minutes a day to reading or repeating new words and phrases. (more…)

How to Easily Memorize Anything with Cicero Method

2 months ago
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mnemonics cicero methodThe essence of the method is that the information should be memorized by units, mentally set in a familiar room in a particular order. Then it is enough to remember this room in order to recall the necessary information. That is exactly what Cicero did in preparation for his performances: he was walking around his house, mentally placing the key points of his speech in it.

Before you begin learning to use this method, you need to decide for yourself in what order you will be moving around the room you have chosen. In other words, you need to determine the sequence of the places where you will be putting your information. You can simply keep it in your head. If this is difficult, then you can try to go around the room in reality like Cicero did, in order to remember the sequence of information units for the first time. (more…)

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