Reader Review:

'The "game" format makes this book very user-friendly and not threatening.'

From Exercises for the Whole Brain

"The mental exercises in this book are designed to challenge a variety of real-world brain skills in entertaining ways: logical deductive reasoning; creative visualization of forms; manipulation of the symbols and rules of mathematical computation; and application of verbal expression and grammatical logic to identify solutions to problems presented in non-verbal ways. A good illustration of how different skills team together can be found in that cluster of techniques and abilities loosely referred to as creativity. Brainstorming is a right-brain activity to the extent that it’s non-judgmental, and “divergent” rather than “convergent” in the sense that it’s not goal-directed towards a single “right” answer. But in order to produce good results, any brainstorming session must be followed by critical evaluation, to analyze the logical conclusions of each idea, thus sorting the good ones from the bad. Conversely, pushing a simple idea to its logical conclusion may lead to a counterintuitive conclusion, that is sometimes referred to as the “Eureka!” effect."