Everyone has a general interest in becoming more intelligent, so reading books and articles is the most interesting and simple way to do so. On the other hand, when someone tries to make you read into a belief or concept that is not in your original core of values, it gets tough. Being able to wrap you head around the ideas without having any sort of bias is seemingly impossible. This same difficulty applies to the book; “This Will Make You Smarter” edited by John Brockman. You may ask why the cover of the writing says “edited by”, and that is because these are the works of many other authors put together in correlation to John Brockman 's ideas. Throughout the book John uses these other authors ' works to create an image of scientific individuality from person to person. This means he is attempting to give every reader more 'tools ', or ideas, in their minds about how to think a certain way to make them smarter by …show more content…
I agree with some of the main ideas in John Brockman 's book, such as his chapter titled “cycles” on page 170, where he explains that, just as there are large cycles such as the seasons, our day to day bodies also go through smaller cycles. However, the biggest main idea in the book is the one that I do not agree with. Progress and scientific thinking to John Brockman, as well as all of the other authors, is thought of as a law of the universe. In other words, there is no way to get the progress you want or to be intelligent if you believe things are going to just 'go your way '. Evaluating this type of thinking and going about life is not easy for me to do because I believe in hard work paying off, but I also believe in superstition, karma, and the afterlife. These two concepts are distinctly separate, but in my opinion they work in harmony. Brockman is the type of scientist that only believes in the 'rational ' way of
In “Can You Build a Better Brain”, the author, Sharon Begley discusses how the cognition processes better. He starts by presenting some experiments that prove nutrition did not support the brain smarter. According to the article, he believes that the “cognitive capacity” can be amended by concentration in people’s behavior. He further believes that people’s intelligence do not depend on own skills; however, as long as people peceive new things, their synapses and brain systems will
Everything is criticized at every level in this story, the people by the main character, the main character by the author and even the story by the author as well. The cruel egoistic personality of Anders is definitely identifiable through these different levels of criticism. I will prove that the inner motivation of this behaviour derives from Anders' egoistic personality which sometimes makes him cruel against others, sometimes against himself. Furthermore, I will prove that whenever Anders criticizes somebody or something he actually tries to punish because of the imperfectness of the object. In order to make the referring to the different part of the story easier I divide it into three parts. The first part ends when the robbers appear at the door of the bank, the second ends when one of the robbers shoots at Anders and the left is the third part.
Mel Levine’s book, A Mind at a Time, describes many aspects of cognitive psychology and attempts to apply them to the educational system for young children. This book also makes suggestions for parents that have children with cognitive difficulties. The chapters in this book are designated to various aspects of cognitive psychology as they pertain to children. This paper focuses on chapter six in A Mind at a Time, which is titled “Making Arrangements: Our Spatial and Sequential Ordering Systems.” This is a very interesting chapter because it incorporates many aspects of cognitive psychology. In this chapter, Levine focuses on how children organize their world in terms of learning, thinking, and remembering.
In the text “It Always Costs”, author David Suzuki firmly defends his opinion on the detrimental effects of technology in today’s and age. Throughout his text, Suzuki continuously endorses the idea that technologies have far greater negative impacts than positive and are hardly worth the risk. He explains that these new technological innovations are assuredly unpredictable, reaching a point of somewhat unreliability. The author points out in his text that as humans, we do not have the capacities to foresee these fluctuations, for our knowledge in scientific innovation, is relatively limited. As such, he proposes that we, as citizens, must make a conscious effort to become more informed and aware of these new technologies sprouting in our
...ok goes back and forth between factual writing and narrative making it really confusing. To add to the confusion there is a Glossary for “scientific words” which means if you do not understand something you will have to go back and forth pages. Most of the things touched in the book we have already discussed in classes like General Biology, Molecular Genetics and Bioanalytical Techniques. I feel the book is geared towards people with some degree of knowledge in Biology (like High School students) and an interest in Genetics and honestly society works now on instant gratification, why would I have to pay to hear the opinion of an incredibly accomplished old man when I can look up in the internet the opinion of someone maybe less ignorant than you and form myself an opinion based of someone else’s firm opinion.
Journalists simplify empirical research findings into consumer news stories by summarizing the study into interesting, nontechnical terms for the general public, potentially resulting in misleading information that deviates from the findings of the research (Morling, 2012). In the popular press article, "Mindfulness Meditation Can Help You Make Smarter Decisions", Christopher Bergland (2012) suggests that brief sessions of meditation can result in making "smarter" decisions. Bergland based this claim on a an empirical study conducted by Andrew Hafenbrack, Zoe Kinias, and Sigal Barsade, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Psychological Science (2014). This article (Bergland, 2014) proposes that doing meditation prevents succumbing sunk cost bias, defined in the peer-reviewed article (Hafenbrack et al., 2014) as the propensity to continue and endeavor after money, time, or effort has been invested. Though Hafenbrack (2014) accurately portrays the findings of the study, the article puts too much of an emphasis on the conclusions while essential details from the methods are left out, potentially misleading readers.
People can achieve intelligent by learning or by following their passion in whatever they love. If someone loves fixing cars there is a chance he will become a mechanic, so he will be intelligent in that careers. That is how someone becomes intelligent because they learned everything they can about their profession in book or by what they learn on the streets. To become a intelligent person is important in society because that sets a standard for us and we try to learn everything we can to be the best in our jobs and careers, so we can be the best in our field.
Reading “Pages 1-19” in The Curious Researcher was a homework assignment I was just going to read and get it done with. Page by page I read through and rolled my eyes when the author talked about writing a real research paper, a better research paper. I’ve written and read many papers before guys, what else could this guy have to teach me? Then it was on page 12 that I started to read through “Theories of Intelligence” written by the author of the book. This might have been the first time a book had caught my full attention in years; for once my phone could buzz all it wanted but it was going to have to wait. I don’t know why but it seemed like everything Mr. Ballenger talked about was so relatable. I’ve been very close to someone who had a
Mike Rose describes his first-hand experience of blue collar workers in his monograph “Blue Collar Brilliance”. Patiently, he observed the cooks and waitresses whilst he waited for his mother’s shift to end. He noticed how his mother called out abbreviated orders, tag tables and so on. Mike Rose describes how his mother, Rosie, took orders whilst holding cups of coffee and removed plates in motion. Rose observed how her mother and other waiters worked and concluded that blue collar work “demands both body and brain” (Rose 274). He describes that Rosie devised memory strategies and knew whether an order was being delayed. She was assiduous in sequencing and clustering her tasks and solved any technical or human problem simultaneously. Managing
In the article “Reading and Thought” the author Dwight MacDonald provides criticism and disagreement with Henry Luce’s idea of “functional curiosity”. Luce developed the term “functional curiosity” defining it as an eagerness of people to know the latest news happening around the world. On the other hand, MacDonald concludes that functional curiosity only strengthens reader’s practice in reading rather than in providing invaluable information. He underlines that literature nowadays is deficient and insubstantial since there is no deep meaning in the texts. Modern printed literature is simply being skimmed through by the reader as the reader nowadays tends to avoid too much information resisting thinking in such a way. Because of the new nature of the printed materials, MacDonald considers today’s reading behavior and the way people think as flimsy and indifferent. I agree that our thought has definitively changed since we are paying less time to serious critical thinking losing connections with society and awareness of it.
In Ain’t No Making It, Jay Macleod explains his theories and findings on social reproduction of inequality. He begins by telling us more about some authors and their theories. This helped me have a better understanding on what this book is really trying to portray. One author I found interesting was Bernstein who focused on language patterns and social reproduction. By bringing up issues like this one that most people usually don’t think about, I was able to look at the problems that the Brothers and Hallway Hangers faced from a whole new perspective. I would not have noticed this throughout the book if these issues were not mentioned right away. I come from a very traditional family that believes that success depends on how much work you
Limit your learning, you don’t want to be too smart that’s not good for you or the people around you. In the novel Brave New World the people in the New State try to keep their groups apart by assigning jobs, wearing certain colors and limiting their intelligence. So by limiting one’s intelligence it keeps everybody else safe. Believe it or not but these people can read but do all that they can to not read. They are conditioned to hate book, to not like reading and to not want to learn because it’s not what their leaders want them to do. Although Alphas are the smarts group in the New State they are kept in the dark and have little to no say about what they read.
Society seems to be divided between the idea if science is more harmful than helpful. We live in a world where humans depend on science and technology to improve important aspects of society, such as medical machinery, which supports the fact that science is more of a friend than a foe. Science is advancing every day. The United States has come a long way with its ongoing developments, giving individuals a chance to improve society as a whole. Not only does the United States benefit from such growth, but every modernized country does so as well. Through science and technology, individuals learn from past endeavors and apply it to present and future projects, paving the way for new discoveries and efficient enhancements
Therefore, we can conclude Richard Rodriguez reads with the grain. It seems as if he is so caught up in attempting to display the façade of being educated and intelligent. He forgets intelligence isn’t just the measure of how many facts you can quote, nor is it how many books you have read. However true intelligence is having one’s own thoughts which can be backed up and proven, not just reiterating others thoughts they have already come up with themselves.
The article ¨5 maps and charts that will surprise you¨,explains parts of the world that have many facts that will make your jaw drop, according from the article it states “more than 51% people in the world in Asia” which is very amazing according to our population billions of people that live in the world. Paragraph 2 shows The British have taken over many parts of the world, Stuart Laycock describes that ¨out of 193 countries that are currently UK member states,[the british] invaded or fought conflicts in a territory of 171¨, this is like The American Revolution The British tried to take over the U.S”. Africa is the size that you can't even imagine, it's the size of more than 15 countries. Every state in the U.S has the richest person in