How do you improve your memory, when you're certain you've a brain like a sieve? What can you do to remember all the facts you need for exams or for work, when you can't even remember where you left your keys? Are you doomed to spend the rest of your life as that person who has managed to forget his mother's birthday, feeling as if there must be something wrong with you?No, you're not - and there's nothing wrong with you! Your brain isn't like a sieve! You're just not familiar with...

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's "gripping and thought-provoking" look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works).In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in everyday life, placing them into seven categories: absent-mindedness, transience, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence. Illustrating these concepts w...

When my father was first diagnosed with Alzheimers, I read and researched everything I could get my hands on about the disease. Right off the bat I could tell if it was written by a physician, pharmaceutical company or even a nursing home. When caregivers are looking for help, the last thing they need is medical text so complex they already forgot what they read by the time its laid back down. This is what got me started on writing about common sense caregiving, which turned into a weekly ...

How to Learn a New Language in as Little as a Few Months – and Have a Boatload of Fun Doing ItLet me make a prediction.I predict that many, many hundreds of people who will read this description will close this page in a few seconds.“Learn a new language in a few months? Are you out of your mind?” they’ll say. “It’s just too good to be true.”And they will go back to their old language learning methods.You know which methods: toiling away at mind-numb...

Maintain your brain with these challenging sudoku puzzles. Many times more mentally stimulating than regular English language style sudoku puzzles.66 Arabic Alphabet Sudoku Puzzles in easy, medium and hard levels of play, and in 9x9 and 16x16 grid sizes. Give your brain a terrific workout with my Arabic Alphabet Sudoku Puzzles and your brain will thank you.54 9x9 grid size puzzles and 12 16x16 grid size games, both in easy, medium and hard levels of play. 2 puzzles per page...

Are you feeling stupid, lagging behind your peers, colleagues, or just can't get things right? You are not alone.In the world we are living in, everything's moving at lightning speed. If you are not improving yourself, or smart enough, you'll fall behind immediately. Therefore, you have to keep improving yourself. The easiest way is to increase your Intelligence and IQ.Intelligence enables you to comprehend things easily, absorb them and produce the results fast. High intel...

Are you a therapist or counselor who wonders if your intuition can be used to benefit your practice? The Intuitive Therapist is an informed, practical and broad-scoped discussion of intuition for the therapist: how to recognize it and harness it to more quickly, gently, and effectively transform your clients lives. Written with warmth, compassion and personal insight, The Intuitive Therapist is a must-have reference for any therapist who seeks a more rewarding professional experience. It p...

Thank you for your interest in the for self help series.The self help series is a series of books aimed and designed for your personal development and to help you improve in various aspects of your life. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they could be easily digested, easy to understand and easy to apply. The goal is for you to take action. The only way that any book or booklet would help you is if you take action.This one in p...

After dealing with abuse, divorce, cancer, a daughters addiction, and a special needs grandchild, author Meryl Hartstein has discovered how to live a life of positivity. By learning to be confident internally, externally, and eternally, your life will be based on knowing your self-worth and never accepting anything less than you deserve!