Your Daily Brain: 24 Hours in the Life of Your Brain

by Marbles: The Brain Store

Overview

Want to stop losing your car keys? Will a creative idea into existence? Have more productive arguments with your spouse?
 
In Your Daily Brain, the team behind Marbles: The Brain Store, a chain devoted to building better brains, shows you all the weird and wonderful ways your brain works throughout the day—even when you think it’s not working at all, like when you’re on the treadmill or picking the kids up from school.
 
Consider this book a wake-up call, a chance to take a closer look at and jump start your brain. From the minute your alarm clock buzzes in the morning until your head hits the pillow at night, your daily activities—everything from doing a crossword puzzle to parallel parking—are part of a process for how you evaluate the world, make choices and decisions, and reach short-term goals while keeping your eyes on the bigger ones. In each, you have the opportunity to use your brain for better or worse, whether it’s what to listen to you on your morning commute or avoiding mental traps at the grocery store.
 
Packed with information as well as useful tips and tricks, Your Daily Brain is the brain hack you’ve been looking for!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804140119
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/18/2015
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

MARBLES: THE BRAIN STORE is in malls across the country. They and their branded products have been featured in Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, USA Today, and Wired, as well as on the Today show and Martha Stewart Living.
 
GARTH SUNDEM is the author of books including Geek Logik, The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination, Brain Candy, Brain Trust, and Beyond IQ. He lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado. 

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Table of Contents

Introduction 11

Part 1 The Morning-Waking Up, Getting Ready, Getting Gone 13

6:30 a.m.: Insight or Energy: Should You Hit the Snooze Button? 15

6:35 a.m.: The Difference Between Asleep and Awake 18

6:45 a.m.: Use the Power of Newness to Wake Up Your Senses 21

7:00 a.m.: Do You Crow with the Roosters or Hoot with the Owls? 24

7:15 a.m.: Here's What Your Brain Likes for Breakfast 28

7:30 a.m.: Morning! Panic! Multitask! 31

7:40 a.m.: The (Reverse) Power of Positive Thinking 35

7:45 a.m.: How to Plan Your Day 38

8:00 a.m.: The Problem with Puzzles 41

8.05 a.m.: How to Remember Where You Put Your Car Keys 44

8:15 a.m.: Setting Your Positivity Clock 49

8:30 a.m.: Why You Can't Remember Street Names or Directions 53

8:35 a.m.: How to Pick a Car Radio Station 58

8:45 a.m.: Why American Brains Commute Alone 61

8:50 a.m.: Should You Make Out While Driving? 65

8:55 a.m.: How to Parallel Park 69

Part 2 The Day-Work, Thinking Skills, and Willpower 75

9:05 a.m.: How to Pay Attention 77

9:15 a.m.: Fourteen Ways You Are a Puppet to Your Unconscious 80

9:30 a.m.: If You Believe You Have More Willpower, You Have More Willpower 84

10:00 a.m.: How to Step Up, Not Fade Away, in the Face of Workplace Stress 89

10:30 a.m.: Should You Paint Your Office Red or Blue? 94

11:00 a.m.: If Not IQ, Then What? Practical Intelligence Helps You Surf Work Dilemmas 96

Noon: What Is Your Learning Style? 100

12:30 p.m.: How to Make a Creative Idea Pop into Existence 103

1:00 p.m.: Should You Do Today What Could Be Put Off Until Tomorrow? 108

1:15 p.m.: Pack Your Working Memory 111

2:00 p.m.: It's Only Two o'Clock. Are You Burned Out Already? 115

2:30 p.m.: How to Read Your Coworkers' Minds 118

3:00 p.m.: The Secret to Solving All Your Problems 122

3:30 p.m.: How to Find What You Need on the Internet 128

4:00 p.m.: How to Be an Innovator 132

Part 3 The Evening-Health, Family, Love, and Leisure 137

5:00 p.m.: Does Your Brain Like One Drink a Day? 139

5:15 p.m.: Pump Up Your Brain! 142

5:20 p.m.: Your Brain vs. the Grocery Store 146

5:30 p.m.: Why Kids Punch Each Other in the Backseats of Cars 151

5:45 p.m.: How Parenting Changes the Brain 157

6:00 p.m.: Love Is a Heady Chemical Cocktail 160

6:15 p.m.: How to Know If Your Relationship Will Last 164

6:45 p.m.: Should You Argue with Your Spouse When You're Angry? How About When You're Sad? 168

7:00 p.m.: A Tiny Piece of Evidence That Suggests You Still Have the Brain of a Caveperson 172

7:20 p.m.: How to Read Your Significant Other's Mind 174

7:30 p.m.: Happiness, Well-being, and Twinkies 177

8:00 p.m.: Don't Diss the Placebo Effect 182

8:30 p.m.: Technology Is Eating Your Brain 185

9:00 p.m.: Why You Should Stop Reading and Go to Sleep 189