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Mastermind

Author : Maria Konnikova
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606231
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Mastermind written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game. No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world’s most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.

Mastermind Psychology 101

Author : K.w. Williams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546738534
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Mastermind Psychology 101 written by K.w. Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of being confused about what people mean or when they are being truthful? Are you tired of trying to figure out how to seduce and appeal to others? Are you tired of being the victim of manipulation and others' irrationality? Do you want to become a mastermind of psychology? Then this is the right book for you. You will learn the secrets to reading people as if they are open books. And the success that you start enjoying in life as a result of being a mastermind will certainly make reading this book the best thing that you have ever done for yourself. All of the secrets to other people are here. You will learn how to protect yourself from manipulation, and how to run manipulation yourself. You will find out the secrets to detecting deception and how to run persuasion on others. You will also learn how to tell what people want from you and what you mean to people. Say good-bye to confusion and lack of clarity. You will also begin to learn all about how to become more appealing. This knowledge will boost your success in dating, getting laid, and making sales. Your job and your love life will both improve by leaps and bounds. You will learn how to become a better lover and friend, so that you endure fewer fights and miscommunications with others. Finally, you will learn how to resolve any and every type of conflict that you run into with others. Doesn't this just sound like the perfect book? Well it is. And your life will become more perfect the more you use the concepts included in these pages. So start becoming a mastermind of psychology today.

Psych 101 Series Sampler (eBook)

Author : Springer Publishing Company
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826198147
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Psych 101 Series Sampler (eBook) written by Springer Publishing Company and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psych 101 eBook Sampler is a collection of excerpts (including all introductory pages and the first chapter) from each of the books in the Psych 101 series. This series offers short, reader-friendly introductions to cutting-edge topics in psychology. With key concepts, controversial topics, and fascinating accounts of up-to-the-minute research, it is an invaluable resource for all students of psychology and anyone interested in the field. The sampler includes excerpts from all the Psych 101 books, including: Giftedness 101 Personality 101 Emotional Intelligence Obesity 101 Humor 101 Psycholinguistics 101 Anxiety 101 Leadership 101 IQ Testing 101 Creativity 101 Genius 101

Masterminds and Wingmen

Author : Rosalind Wiseman
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307986683
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Masterminds and Wingmen written by Rosalind Wiseman and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common and difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls. Do you constantly struggle to pull information from your son, student, or athlete, only to encounter mumbling or evasive assurances such as “It’s nothing” or “I’m good?” Do you sense that the boy you care about is being bullied, but that he’ll do anything to avoid your “help?” Have you repeatedly reminded him that schoolwork and chores come before video games only to spy him reaching for the controller as soon as you leave the room? Have you watched with frustration as your boy flounders with girls? Welcome to Boy World. It’s a place where asking for help or showing emotional pain often feels impossible. Where sports and video games can mean everything, but working hard in school frequently earns ridicule from “the guys” even as they ask to copy assignments. Where “masterminds” dominate and friends ruthlessly insult each other but can never object when someone steps over the line. Where hiding problems from adults is the ironclad rule because their involvement only makes situations worse. Boy world is governed by social hierarchies and a powerful set of unwritten rules that have huge implications for your boy’s relationships, his interactions with you, and the man he’ll become. If you want what’s best for him, you need to know what these rules are and how to work with them effectively. What you’ll find in Masterminds and Wingmen is critically important for every parent – or anyone who cares about boys – to know. Collaborating with a large team of middle- and high-school-age editors, Rosalind Wiseman has created an unprecedented guide to the life your boy is actually experiencing – his on-the-ground reality. Not only does Wiseman challenge you to examine your assumptions, she offers innovative coping strategies aimed at helping your boy develop a positive, authentic, and strong sense of self.

Master Mind

Author : Napoleon Hill
Publisher : Sound Wisdom
ISBN 13 : 1640952705
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Master Mind written by Napoleon Hill and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon Hill on two occasions wrote extensive memoirs about his life, starting with his youth in Wise County, Virginia, and ending, apparently, during World War II. I say “apparently” because the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation contain these two manuscripts, but they are obviously incomplete and end in the 1940s. Mr. Hill died in 1970. His last book, Grow Rich with Peace of Mind, was written in 1967 and sheds some light on his later years; but his own journals and memoirs of those years, if they ever existed, have not yet been found. The two memoirs were titled by Mr. Hill, Wheel of Fortune and Hand of Destiny. They contain details of his life, including his four marriages, two divorces and one annulment, which we at the Foundation have not seen in any of his other writings or speeches. They also contain many details about his successes and failures in business and there were more failures than successes, as he readily admits. The memoirs contain thoughtful insights into the state of mind of this great thinker—how he dealt with failure, profited from defeat, turned adversity into advantage, and ultimately achieved happiness with his last wife, Annie Lou, happiness which had eluded him for most of his life. Mr. Hill has said that the Master Mind principle, in which two or more minds work harmoniously to achieve a common goal, is the most important of the seventeen principles of success he studied during his decades of research into how people attain happy and successful lives. One of the many interesting stories in the memoirs is about how he and his third wife, Rosa Lee, used the Master Mind principle to discover the only one of the seventeen principles that no one had understood or realized before, Cosmic Habitforce. The Trustees of the Napoleon Hill Foundation have combined the two memoirs into one, editing out repetition and putting events in chronological order where it made sense to do so. They chose to title the combined memoirs Master Mind, in recognition of the importance this principle played in his philosophy and life, and as a tribute to the mental giant who was the greatest thinker and writer ever in the fields of personal achievement and self-improvement.

The Master Mind

Author : Theron Q. Dumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master Mind written by Theron Q. Dumont and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Psychology and Mathematics Education

Author : Gila Hanna
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832529992
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Mathematics Education written by Gila Hanna and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Mathematics is constructed rigorously through proofs, based on truths, which are either axioms or previously proven theorems. Thus, it is par excellence a model of rational inquiry. Links between Cognitive Psychology and Mathematics Education have been particularly strong during the last decades. Indeed, the Enlightenment view of the rational human mind that reasons, makes decisions and solves problems based on logic and probabilities, was shaken during the second half of the twentieth century. Cognitive psychologists discovered that humans' thoughts and actions often deviate from rules imposed by strict normative theories of inference. Yet, these deviations should not be called "errors": as Cognitive Psychologists have demonstrated, these deviations may be either valid heuristics that succeed in the environments in which humans have evolved, or biases that are caused by a lack of adaptation to abstract information formats. Humans, as the cognitive psychologist and economist Herbert Simon claimed, do not usually optimize, but rather satisfice, even when solving problem. This Research Topic aims at demonstrating that these insights have had a decisive impact on Mathematics Education. We want to stress that we are concerned with the view of bounded rationality that is different from the one espoused by the heuristics-and-biases program. In Simon’s bounded rationality and its direct descendant ecological rationality, rationality is understood in terms of cognitive success in the world (correspondence) rather than in terms of conformity to content-free norms of coherence (e.g., transitivity).

Wrinkles

Author : August Steele
Publisher : August Steele
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrinkles written by August Steele and published by August Steele. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanie Romero had a smooth, wrinkle-free life - an exciting career in the advertising biz, swanky pad overlooking the dazzling Las Vegas Strip, slick sports car, beautiful daughter, great friends, and a sizzling-hot, younger boyfriend. Life was a gamble, but Lanie Romero was rolling snake eyes – that is, until heroin showed up and caused some serious wrinkles. When Lanie discovers her boyfriend’s hidden heroin addiction, she naively believes she can smooth things over and save him – however, rather than rescuing him, the power of his sinister addiction shatters her world. With one unfortunate roll of the dice, Lanie Romero lost everything. This is the fabric of one woman’s life, her arduous climb out of heroin’s black hole, and how she discovers a renewed faith in humanity from the most unlikely of sources - a couple of wrinkly “old timers” who show her the healing power of friendship and forgiveness. Will these new life-lessons help Lanie as she suddenly finds herself entangled in a diabolical plot? Her newfound strength and restored spirit are put to the ultimate test as she confronts a force even darker and more sinister than heroin. Will she survive, or is this the final roll of the dice for Lanie Romero?

Herb Brooks

Author : John Gilbert
Publisher : Mvp Books
ISBN 13 : 9780760339954
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Herb Brooks written by John Gilbert and published by Mvp Books. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U. S. hockey teams victory at the 1980 Olympics was a Miracle on Ice--a miracle largely brought about by Herb Brooks, the legendary coach who forged that invincible team. Famously antagonistic toward the press at Lake Placid, Brooks nonetheless turned to sportswriter John Gilbert after each game, giving his longtime friend and confidant what became the most comprehensive coverage of the 80 team. This book is Gilberts memoir of Brooks. Neither strictly biography or tell-all exposé, Herb Brooks: The Inside Story of a Hockey Mastermind is the story of an extraordinary man as it emerged in the course of a remarkable friendship.

Subliminal Psychology 101

Author : Michael Pace
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984059499
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Subliminal Psychology 101 written by Michael Pace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People can be so resistant to your ideas. Wouldn't you like to be able to slip into someone's mind and make him or her do your bidding? Since the days of crazy CIA mind control experiments, a series of highly secretive methods of subliminal mind control have been available. But they have been kept under wraps because of their power. Now you can find them out for yourself and make your life what you want it to be by gaining control over the minds of others. Subliminal psychology is a special and top secret science that explores how to enter someone's subconscious mind. There, you can plant ideas that the person will start acting on without knowing why. Using signals, gestures, images, scents, sounds, touch, and words, you can influence someone tremendously and very stealthily. No one will know why they do the things they do under your influence. Subliminal psychology has a huge variety of uses. In this book, you will learn how to use it for seduction and settling conflict in your personal relationships. You will also use it to beat the odds in competitions. You will learn how to use it to make work better for you, and to gain dominance over others. You will learn how to apply it to parenting and relationships of all kinds. Finally, you will learn how to utilize it on yourself to bring out your best, end bad habits, and build confidence and self-esteem through positive thinking. Hack your own mind. Or hack others'. The secrets to how are all in these pages.

Rock Hard

Author : Zoey Parker
Publisher : E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rock Hard written by Zoey Parker and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 1 of the Beasts MC romance series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now I’m rock hard and ready to break her. She’s in my bed for her own protection. But there’s nothing to protect her from me. Who cares that our marriage is fake? The night I have planned for my new bride is going to be very, very real. KELLAN I didn’t ask for this. She didn’t, either. But someone is determined to hurt and destroy my MC president’s daughter. And it’s fallen to me to keep her safe. Caught without options, I marry her and take her as my wife. Emma is gorgeous and smart – far too good for a violent biker like me. That doesn’t stop me from putting my hands all over her. I love the way she moans my name, the way she moves under the cover of darkness. I can’t stop wanting her, no matter how hard I try. But danger is never far behind. I know I should let Emma go. I’m not the right man for her. But my vows have become real. In my heart, Emma is mine. To have. To hold. To feel. To own. She’s a biker’s bride… ‘Til death do us part. EMMA When my father tells me to marry his second-in-command, I’m frozen in shock. I had always sworn I’d never get involved with a biker. I’d seen too much. The club tore families apart. I wouldn’t let that happen to me. But then my father tells me he’s dying. And a mysterious man tries to assault me in the middle of the night. Something is happening, something that scares me. I have no choice but to follow my father’s orders. That’s how I became the outlaw’s bride. Kellan is a beast and a monster. A killer, a sinner, a rogue. But he kisses me at the altar with so much passion that my heart comes to a standstill. I shouldn’t want him. He’s not the man I imagined as my husband. But as my dad’s enemies get closer, I can’t stop wanting our marriage to be real. Our lives are on the line. And I realize that, although Kellan might not be the man I ever predicted for myself… He’s the one I’m falling for. And he’s the one I’ll be with. As long as we both shall live. *** Fake wedding with a hot bad boy biker? How could anyone say no?? Check out ROCK HARD by bestselling motorcycle club romance author Zoey Parker if you love fake marriage romance with unexpected babies and hot sex, or if you like reading MC romance series about alpha male bad boy bikers. I promise that this new adult contemporary romance will blow you away with its themes of dark romance, hot sex, and never-ending passion. So what are you waiting for??

The Biggest Bluff

Author : Maria Konnikova
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525522646
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.

The Psychology of Selling

Author : Brian Tracy
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 0785288066
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Selling written by Brian Tracy and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double and triple your sales--in any market. The purpose of this book is to give you a series of ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques that you can use immediately to make more sales, faster and easier than ever before. It's a promise of prosperity that sales guru Brian Tracy has seen fulfilled again and again. More sales people have become millionaires as a result of listening to and applying his ideas than from any other sales training process ever developed.

Hawkes Harbor

Author : S. E. Hinton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466823836
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Hawkes Harbor written by S. E. Hinton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary author of The Outsiders returns with her first new novel in more than fifteen years! An orphan and a bastard, Jamie grew up tough enough to handle almost anything. He survived foreign prisons, smugglers, pirates, gunrunners, and shark attacks. But what he finds in the quote town of Hawkes Harbor, Delaware, was enough to drive him almost insane—and change his life forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Manipulation

Author : Edward Benedict
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087861968
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Manipulation written by Edward Benedict and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If learning the nuances of using mind control and nerve pathways to achieve the ultimate goal of success in life is something you want for yourself, then this is the book to read. Manipulation is not necessarily a bad thing. Manipulation can be used for great good, and both the good and bad methods will be discussed in this book. We will see ways to use manipulation to get those things that are desired in life, particularly goals that lead to a lifetime of success and successful living. We will see ways to create new pathways in the mind that will lead to the elimination of negative thoughts that are detrimental to the achievement of success. No discussion of mind control and manipulation would be complete without a discussion of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is used by many professionals and others to teach people different ways to properly program the mind to enable the person to be successful in setting and achieving personal goals. This book covers all these topics and more. It is the consummate book for anyone who wishes to learn new ways to engage in controlling their own minds and the minds of others and in using techniques to live a successful life.

MASTER MIND - The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency

Author : William Walker Atkinson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026847962
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book MASTER MIND - The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency written by William Walker Atkinson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "MASTER MIND - The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Find out what is the difference between a Master Mind and any other form of Mind, how to achieve the true mental power and efficiency. The ordinary mind is a mere creature of circumstances, driven hither and thither by the winds of outside forces, and lacking the guidance of the hand on the wheel, and being without the compass; while the Master Mind proceeds in the true course mapped out by Intelligence, and determined by will. The Master Mind is consciously, deliberately, and voluntarily built up, cultivated, developed, and used; whereas the ordinary mind is usually unconsciously built up, cultivated, and developed by the force and power of impressions from the outside world, and is usually employed and used with little or no conscious direction by its own will. The ordinary mind is like a dumb, driven animal, while the Master Mind is like the strong-willed, intelligent, masterful Man. William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific writer. His works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought".

Mastermind

Author : Maria Konnikova
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014312434X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Mastermind written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game. No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world’s most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.