Power Up
Y
Your Mind:
FL
Learn faster,
AM
work smarter
TE
Bill Lucas
NICHOLAS BREALEY PUBLISHING
Team-Fly®
,Power Up
Your Mind
Learn faster,
work smarter
Bill Lucas
N I C H O L A S B R E A L E Y
P U B L I S H I N G
L O N D O N
, First published by
Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2001
Reprinted (twice) 2002
3–5 Spafield Street PO Box 700
Clerkenwell, London Yarmouth
EC1R 4QB, UK Maine 04096, USA
Tel: +44 (0)20 7239 0360 Tel: (888) BREALEY
Fax: +44 (0)20 7239 0370 Fax: (207) 846 5181
http://www.nbrealey-books.com
http://www.powerupyourmind.com
© Bill Lucas 2001
The right of Bill Lucas to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lucas, Bill.
Power up your mind : learn faster, work smarter / Bill Lucas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
1. Learning, Psychology of. 2. Work--Psychological aspects. I. Title.
BF318 .L83 2001
153.1′5--dc21
2001035940
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior written
permission of the publishers. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or
otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form, binding or cover other than
that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the publishers.
Printed in Finland by WS Bookwell.
, Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part 1 Get READY to Learn: Going beneath the surface 6
1 Unpacking Your Mind 8
Taking your mind out of its box 9
Your three brains 11
Your divided brain 13
Close-up on your brain 16
Five key principles 18
Brain or mind? 21
Brain food 22
Laughter, music, and sleep 25
Nearly unpacked 28
A day in the life of Annie’s brain 29
Unpacking your mind—in a nutshell 33
2 Getting Ready to Learn 34
Checking your emotional readiness 35
Curiosity and emotional state 36
A hierarchy of emotional needs 38
Reading your own moods 39
An emotionally confusing world 40
Raising self-esteem 43
Learned optimism and the three Ps 46
The joined-up revolution 48
Mens sana in corpore sano 49
Brain gym 50
Getting to the spiritual dimension 51
A new sixth sense? 53
Getting ready to learn—in a nutshell 54
Y
Your Mind:
FL
Learn faster,
AM
work smarter
TE
Bill Lucas
NICHOLAS BREALEY PUBLISHING
Team-Fly®
,Power Up
Your Mind
Learn faster,
work smarter
Bill Lucas
N I C H O L A S B R E A L E Y
P U B L I S H I N G
L O N D O N
, First published by
Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2001
Reprinted (twice) 2002
3–5 Spafield Street PO Box 700
Clerkenwell, London Yarmouth
EC1R 4QB, UK Maine 04096, USA
Tel: +44 (0)20 7239 0360 Tel: (888) BREALEY
Fax: +44 (0)20 7239 0370 Fax: (207) 846 5181
http://www.nbrealey-books.com
http://www.powerupyourmind.com
© Bill Lucas 2001
The right of Bill Lucas to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lucas, Bill.
Power up your mind : learn faster, work smarter / Bill Lucas.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-85788-275-X
1. Learning, Psychology of. 2. Work--Psychological aspects. I. Title.
BF318 .L83 2001
153.1′5--dc21
2001035940
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise without the prior written
permission of the publishers. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or
otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form, binding or cover other than
that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the publishers.
Printed in Finland by WS Bookwell.
, Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part 1 Get READY to Learn: Going beneath the surface 6
1 Unpacking Your Mind 8
Taking your mind out of its box 9
Your three brains 11
Your divided brain 13
Close-up on your brain 16
Five key principles 18
Brain or mind? 21
Brain food 22
Laughter, music, and sleep 25
Nearly unpacked 28
A day in the life of Annie’s brain 29
Unpacking your mind—in a nutshell 33
2 Getting Ready to Learn 34
Checking your emotional readiness 35
Curiosity and emotional state 36
A hierarchy of emotional needs 38
Reading your own moods 39
An emotionally confusing world 40
Raising self-esteem 43
Learned optimism and the three Ps 46
The joined-up revolution 48
Mens sana in corpore sano 49
Brain gym 50
Getting to the spiritual dimension 51
A new sixth sense? 53
Getting ready to learn—in a nutshell 54
