Making Mental Might

How to Look Ten Times Smarter Than You Are

By: Bernard Michael Patten

Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl

Doctor Bernard Patten, erstwhile Memory Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, founder of the first memory clinic at the Neurological Institute of New York, and author of scientific papers on memory therapy and memory problems, wants to help you to a better mind, a better memory, and, consequently, a better life.

Memory degradation happens to everyone. Even people in good health forget where they park their cars or leave their reading glasses. Some draw a blank entering their PIN. Is the stove off? Cat fed? Door locked? Did you take your medication? Not sure? How come? These memory problems only get worse as we get older unless we employ mental exercises to improve memory now.

Mountains of scientific research prove that mental exercise benefits the brain as much as physical exercise benefits the body. Mental gymnastics boosts brainpower, augments memory, and (in some cases) actually increases brain size. It can help prevent dementia, mental decline, and the much-feared Alzheimer's disease.

Making Mental Might does not aim to increase your IQ or show you how to get smarter. It offers the proper mental training to look, sound, and perform worlds better. These techniques have helped hundreds of students at Rice University's School of Continuing Studies under Doctor Patten improve their working memory. They can do the same for you.

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Great resource

I've always felt that a good memory was cornerstone to knowledge. Dr. Patten has just confirmed my thinking. His research and years in the field of "The Mind" have yielded him a great understanding as to just how the mind works. He gives countless examples of when an activity is conducted and the brain is scanned before and after such activity (the practicing at a piano for instance) that the brain "rearrange and grown" its syntactical abilities during the playing, and will maintain this increased syntactical activity up to 10 days later even without further playing of the instrument. Astounding. It boils down to use! If the mind is used in an artful, productive manner, it will therefrom benefit from such activity, "growing" itself by means of increased syntactical production. The mind is a muscle; exercise it! The author's phrase "Making Mental Might" is the perfect description for all the exercises he prescribes throughout his book. Granted, the individual who can benefit most from the author's work are those trying to stave off Alzheimer's or perhaps even some traumatic brain injury. I doubt they are looking to increase their feigned intelligence 10 fold, but are rather attempting to hang onto what they already have. The points elaborated upon within the pages of this book are all quite interesting, and in considering them, individually, perhaps even debating them with a friend or family member, will undoubtedly (according to the author) help you to improve your memory. Any mental activity will help with such, but it is the intricate, mind bending, creative and thorough learning activities one may undergo that will help most in one's quest for Making Mental Might. Give this one a read and perhaps you too will emerge at the conclusion of the read with a better memory--or at least grasping the concept as to how wo achieve such.