如何开启智慧（剑桥素质英语）

    Contents
   Thanks
   About this book
   Some thoughts about thinking
   Our wonderful brain
   How to reduce stress and tension
   Stress
   Signs of stress
   What is causing the stress?
   A few tips
   Old recipes for happiness
   Rebotion
   Mind and body
   Good breathing
   Sleeping better
   MuscIe relaxation
   Meditation
   Self-hypnosis
   How to think creatively
   Left sbe and right side
   If you have two legs why hop?
   Does left mean bad?
   Three 'rhinktw' languages
   How to develop your visual
   thinking
   Seeing objects in your mind's eye
   Seeing actions and movement in your mind's eye
   Hearing, smelling, tasting and touching... in your mind
   Creating new objects and actions
   After-images
   Hypnogogic images
   Techniques for crearive problem solving
   PIE
   Define the problem
   Stand back from the problem
   What really is the problem?
   How to get a lot of new ideas
   Other people's good ideas
   The familiar strange or the strange famillar?
   Brainstorming
   Sleep on it?
   Analogies
   Unexpected connections
   Attributes
   More techniques
   Vague ideas are useful
   How to evaluate and make a decision
   Things to think about before you make a decision
   Some ways of making decisions
   A checklist for problem solving
   How to use your memory
   A most remarkable memory
   You,too,have an amazing memory!
   Do older people have good memories?
   Memory and remembering
   Short term and long term memory
   Organising your information
   Look for the important information Group your information
   First letters first
   The best way to learn is to teach!
   Making notes
   Full texts
   Structured notes
   Note maps
   Organising yourself
   Have a break!
   A little and often is best
   Keep going back
   Learning new vocabulary
   Starting point
   Families of words
   Memory techniques
   The advice of St Thomas Aquinas
   How to remember a list of objects
   Technique 1: Strange connections
   Technique 2: Think of a room you know well
   How to remember abstract words
   How to remember long numbers
   How to remember people's names
   Body and letter shape
   Face
   Voice
   Character
   Name
   Poems
   Our memories are important to the police
   A picture history of memory
   How to read faster... and understand more
   What is the truth about faster reading?
   Common faults in reading
   Some techniques and exercises for increasing your reading speed
   How to improve your reading efficiency
   Anticipation
   Surveying
   Surveying the contents, etc.
   Surveying the chapters
   Scanning
   The organisation of the text
   Summary of reading techniques and skills for informational texts
   Some obiections to these techniques
   Last thoughts
   Answers
   Acknowledgements