The document provides guidance on developing an incredible mind through improving intelligence and memory. It discusses multiple intelligences, the mind and memory, speed reading, and general study systems. Key points include identifying 9 types of intelligence, discussing short, middle and long-term memory, and outlining effective study methods like using mental boxes and associative imagery.

1. How to develop an
incredible mind
ROBERT BRUNET
IQ responsible of AEGEE’s got Talent
Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona
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2. 1.General questions
2.Multiple intelligences
3.The mind & the memory
4.Supermemory
5. Photographic Reading
6. General System of Study
7. Preparing exams
8. Psychometric tests
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3. 1. General Questions
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4. Who we are?
· We are Humans.
· Humans are characteristic for their mental capability.
· Humans are uniquely to communication for self-
expression, exchange ideas,…
· The human body consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and
two legs.
· In the human body are around 300 tirillion cells which are the
basic unit of life.
· The organ system of the body include the: musculoskeletal,
cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, integumentar, urinary,
lymphatic, immune, respiratory, and reproductive system.
· The most important organ is the brain which is part of the
nervous system.
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5. Our brain
· The adult human brain weighs on average about
1.5 kg with a volume of around 1130 cm3.
· Anatomists divide each himusphere into four “lobes”,
the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and
temporal lobe.
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6. What is to be intelligent?
· Intellectual ability significantly higher than average. It is usually
believed to be an innate, personal aptitude for intellectual activities that
cannot be acquired through personal effort.
· Intelligence includes abilities such as: abstract thought, understanding,
self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, retaining, planning and
problem solving.
http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf
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7. 2. Multiple Intelligences
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8. Multiple Intelligences
The theory of multiple intelligences (TMI) was proposed by Howard
Gardner in 1983.
TMI differentiates intelligence into various specific modalities, rather
than seeing it as dominated by a single general ability.
• Logical-mathematical
• Spatial
• Linguistic
• Bodily-kinesthetic
• Musical
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalistic
• Existential
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9. 1. Logical-mathematical
• This area has to do with logic, abstractions, reasoning and
numbers.
• It is often assumed to: mathematics, chess, computer
programming and other logical or numerical activities
(mathematical ability).
• Also reasoning capabilities, recognizing abstract patterns,
scientific thinking and investigation and the ability to perform
complex calculations.
• Logical reasoning is closely linked to fluid intelligence and to
general ability.
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10. 2. Spatial
•This area deals with spatial judgment and the ability to visualize
with the mind's eye.
• Careers which suit those with this type of intelligence include
artists,designers and architects.
• A spatial person is also good with puzzles. Spatial ability is one of
the three factors beneath g in the hierarchical model of intelligence.
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11. 3. Linguistic
• This area has to do with words, spoken or written.
• People with high verbal-linguistic intelligence display a facility
with words and languages. They are typically good at reading,
writing, telling stories and memorizing words along with dates.
• They tend to learn best by reading, taking notes, listening to
lectures, and by discussing and debating about what they have
learned.
• Those with verbal-linguistic intelligence learn foreign languages
very easily as they have high verbal memory and recall, and an
ability to understand and manipulate syntax and structure.
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12. 4. Bodily-kinesthetic
• The core elements of the bodily-kinesthetic intelligence are control
of one's bodily motions and the capacity to handle objects skillfully.
• In theory, people who have bodily-kinesthetic intelligence should learn better by
involving muscular movement, and are generally good at physical activities such as
sports or dance.
• Careers that suit those with this intelligence include: athletes, pilots, dancers,
musicians, actors, surgeons and soldiers.
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13. 5. Musical
• This area has to do with sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tones,
and music.
• People with a high musical intelligence normally have good pitch
and are able to sing, play musical instruments, and compose music.
• Language skills are typically highly developed in those whose base
intelligence is musical. In addition, they will sometimes use songs
or rhythms to learn.
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14. 6. Interpersonal
• This area has to do with interaction with others.
• People who have a high interpersonal intelligence tend to
be extroverts, and they have the ability to cooperate in order to
work as part of a group.
• They communicate effectively and empathize easily with others,
and may be either leaders or followers.
•Careers that suit those with this intelligence include: sales,
politicians, managers, teachers and social workers.
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15. 7. Intrapersonal
• This area has to do with introspective and self-reflective capacities.
• This refers to having a deep understanding of the self; what your
strengths/ weaknesses are, what makes you unique, being able to
predict your own reactions/emotions.
• Philosophical and critical thinking is common with this intelligence.
• Many people with this intelligence are authors, physchologists,
philosophers,…
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16. 8. Naturalistic
• This area has to do with nurturing and relating information to
one’s natural surroundings.
• Examples include classifying natural forms such as animal and
plant species and rocks and mountain types; and the applied
knowledge of nature in farming, mining, etc.
• Careers which suit those with this intelligence includenaturalists,
farmers and gardeners.
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17. 9. Existential
Ability to contemplate phenomena or questions beyond sensory data,
such as the infinite and infinitesimal. Careers or callings which suit
those with this intelligence include shamans, priests,
mathematicians, physicists, scientists, cosmologists and
philosophers.
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18. Multiple Intelligences Test
http://www.mypersonality.info/basic-vs-pro/multiple-intelligences-test
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19. 3. The mind & the memory
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20. 1. Mind
• Mind is the faculty to our cells to
think,
reason,
imagine,
memorize,
learn,
feel,…
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21. 2. Memory
• Memory is the ability of an organism to store, retain, and
recall information and experiences.
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22. 3. Types of memory (I)
Based on the time:
- Short term: We retain for a short term. Like a telephone number,
we need to write it down.
- Middle term: We can retain this information for one or two days.
- Large time horizon: We retain this information for months or
years.
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23. 3. Types of memory (II)
Based on the sense:
- Visual: is the most powerful, for example when we are reading we
tend to transform the words in images.
- Auditive: is a very useful memory which allows use to remember a
discussion or a song.
- Tasty: Who cannot remember the taste of some meals?
- Smelt: We can also memorize and associate smells.
- Touch: the sensation of the sand of the beach, of the cold water, of
a hot bath,…
- Kinestetik: muscular movement that we assimilate in an irracional
manner.
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24. 4. How to memorize the info
We can just memorize one thing “DATA”.
The capital of France is Paris.
Data: France capital Paris
Focus: “France” & “Paris”
France capital Paris
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25. 5. Type of memorizable info
Pure Data: is this information where there is not any logic relation
between both focus.
-Why the capital of China is named Pekin?
- Is that were is impossible to find the correlation.
Secuencial Data: is this information where there is a logic
interconextion between the focus.
-Titanic crash with an iceberg a lot of people died.
Remember to study is like to see a movie.
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26. 6. Direction of the memorization
· We have to memorize from more to less.
· When are we studying we have to reason and understand the
information, this is the way that the data will stay in hour mind for a
long time.
· Repetition:
- The repetition is one of the most used methodologies. But it is a
bad methodology.
- We try to memorize pure data by repeting a lot of times.
· Inverosimil association:
- What happens when you see something amazing?
- That this will be in your mind for a long time.
- Then you have to do the same when you are trying to memorize
convert flat data in something amazing that you cannot forget.
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27. 4. Supermemory
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28. 1. Asociaciones inverosimiles
· You have 5 minutes to remember this list of words:
Tractor
Lamp
Monkey
Botton
Table
Soccer Player
Gorila
Ship Easy? or Difficult?
Bike
Bottle
Box
Bull
Book
Clock
Carpet
Cloud
Door
Stone
Sea
Ball
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29. 2. Mental boxes (I)
· It is a methodology to remember data in an ordered way.
0 z Starts with z
1 t Looks like 1
2 n Two legs
3 m Three legs
4 k Two legs + Two arms
5 s Looks like 5
6 x From de 6
7 f Looks like 7
8 B Looks like 8
9 d Looks like inverse of
nine
· The abecedarium has more consonants that we have to put in the
previous boxes.
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30. 2. Mental boxes (II)
· You have 5 minutes to remember these telephone numbers:
a/ Work: 43 05 62
b/ Bus Station: 78 65 09
c/ Airport: 36 12 30
d/ Theater: 90 62 38
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31. 3. Build your mental box (I)
· We associate a word in each of the boxes.
1 t Tea
2 n Noé
3 m Me
4 k KO
5 s See
6 x X (sex)
7 f Fee
8 B Be
9 d Do
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32. 3. Build your mental box (II)
· You have 5 minutes to remember these list of words:
a/ Shoe/Telephone/Radio/Newspaepr/Tree/Sweet/Book/Bed/Car
b/ Eat/Jump/Laugh/Paint/Run/Sleep/Work/Fihgt/Swim
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33. 3. Build your mental box (III)
· Build complete mental box from 1-100.
1 t Tea
2 n Noé
3 m Me
…
10
…
100
· For the rest example 234, use comodin environmental situations.
-100 Garden
-200 Beach
-300 Mountain
-…
· Same situation but in other environment.
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34. 5. Speed-reading (SR)
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35. 1. Why SR is so important ?
1. We will be able to read 3 or 4 more times faster.
3. We can be able to memorize the information easly.
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36. 2. Problem when are we reading
1. Follow lienally the words whitout stop to see them for an
instance.
3. Read too slow
1. Lose time
2. Lose concentration
3. Difficult to retain the knowledge
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37. 3. Methods for SR
• When we are reading we have to use the pen to remark
important information.
• When we are reading, we don’t have to talk or think in other
things.
• When we are reading, we have to be in a calm space and in a
good position.
•Read faster is possible because the mental velocity that we can
absorbe is 60.000 words/minute (movie) and the fastest reading is
1.000 words/minute.
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38. 6. General System of Study
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39. 1. Problems when you want to study
Among the main problem when we have to study:
· We never find a good moment to sit and study.
· We always have desorder our room.
· We study and we don’t learn nothing because we are not
concentrated.
· Invest a lot of hours and we don’t obtain good qualifications.
· Be unable to attend the professor.
· Try to memorize word by word.
· Feel eager, distressed, exhausted, stressed,…
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40. 2. Place to study
· Be always the same place.
· Isolated.
· Without noise.
· With good ilumination.
· Temperature between 17-20ºC.
· Adquate furniture.
· Clean and ordered
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41. 3. Programm of study (I)
A good plan of study can bring this advantages:
· Give you a general idea of the work to do.
· Avoids doubts and uncertainity about what to do, how and when.
· Improve the distribution of the working and leisure time .
· Minimize you pains and losing of time.
· Avoid to study everthing the last day.
To elaborate a work plan we have to take into account:
· The time that you have to invest to study depends on your capacity and
the difficulty of the subject.
· It is interesting to start with the work of middle difficulty, continue with
the hardest work and finish with the easiest.
· During the morning you memorize fastest. During the afternoon is
better to do practical exercises.
· It is recommended to change subject every 40 minutes and rest for 5
minutes between them.
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42. 3. Programm of study (II)
Remember:
· Review all the subject that you did on the class.
· Finish the incomplete tasks.
· Prepare lectures to broaden and deepen the subject.
· Work with energy, decision and enthusiasm.
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43. 4. Method of study (I)
Method, is a set of ordered operations with we want to obtain a
result.
Topic of study
1. Pre-read
2.1. Notas at the
2. Read margin
2.2. Underline
3. Schema 3. Summary
4. Memorization
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44. 4. Method of study (II)
• Pre-read: global and schematic read of the general information.
• Comprhensive read: should do it carefully and understand perfectly
each concept.
• Notes in the margin: have to express the main idea of each
parragraph. Should be in the left.
• Underlining: consist in remark the most important work of the topic of
study. The underlining is the answer of the notes in the margin.
• Schema: show graphically the ideas of the topic.
• Summary: remark the principal ideas of the topic. The extension cannot
be higher than the 20% of the text.
• Memorize: retain the data that we want to assimilate after remember it.
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45. 5. Tricks in the study
1. It is better to study a little bit almost everyday either than a lot
in certain periods.
2. It is necessari to stop for 5-10 minutes every 50 minutes to let
the mind relax and absorved all the information.
3. The room where we are studying must have enough light.
4. We have to study back from the solar light. If the light is
artificial is better if it is en el techo.
5. We have to study in a comfortable situation.
6. We should study in a relaxed room, without noise and problems.
7. We have to avoid distraction such as (TV, Internet,…).
8. Before to start to study it is necessary to have all material with
us: paper, pen, books,…
9. The best moment to memorize is in the morning after breakfast.
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46. 7. Preparing exams
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47. 1. 9 ways to prepare finals
• Start early: Get started at least a week before the exam.
• Organize: Being making yourself a calendar outlining a daily schedule of topics
for review.
• Outline: As you read over your textbook and class notes, write a brief summary
for each topic. Highlight the areas in your outline that were most troublesome.
• Make flashcards:
• Get help:
• Sleep: You need at least seven hours of sleep a night to function. Tests are
designed to make you think. If you are sleep-deprived, you won’t be able to
remember any of the information you worked so hard to cram into your brain.
• Stay calm: Do not panic at the exam! Even if at first glance the test is
overwhelming, remember to breathe. If a question seems too hard, answer all the
questions you know, then return to the ones you left blank. Remind yourself that
you are prepared.
• Don’t rush: You have spent at least two weeks studying, so what’s another
couple of minutes? Work through the exam slowly and read all the questions
before answering them.
• Relax post-exam: Don’t let panic overwhelm you. Even if you think you
bombed the exam, worrying will not change your score.
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48. 2. Types of exams
• Multiple choice questions
• Short answer questions
• Essay questions
• Open book questions
• Take home questions
• Open questions
• Oral questions
• Practial questions
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49. 8. Psychometric tests
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50. 1. Introduction
•Aptitude tests are structured systematic ways of evaluating
how people perform on tasks or react to different situations.
•They have standardised methods of administration and scoring
with the results quantified and compared with how others have
done at the same tests.
• Numerical Reasoning
• Logical reasoning
• Non-verbal Reasoning
• Verbal Reasoning
• Verbal Logic Test
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51. Thanks for your attention!
How to develop an incredible mind
ROBERT BRUNET
IQ responsible of AEGEE’s got Talent
Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona
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