Publications
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All of our books are available in paperback, Kindle or via our store. Just click on the image if you are interested in finding out more or making a purchase. How to Think is our newest book. It is a complete guide to analytical thinking aimed at helping you think through all kinds of different problems clearly and accurately. Master Your Memory is a full length book designed to provide you with all you need to know to train your own memory to recall whatever you want. In addition, our range of Quick Courses is now complete and covers a huge range of areas in the sphere of cognitive and intellectual development. The Quick Course series of books is designed to raise your levels of mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of what it means to use your mind effectively. Each course covers the essentials of its subject, providing practical advice and a number of exercises. The Quick Course series builds up into a complete mind and brain development course that will help you to achieve your full mental potential. The Quick Courses are available individually as a series of fourteen short books either in paperback, Kindle or via our store as an ebook. They can also be bought bundled together at a discounted price exclusively via our store. Full Length Books
How can we decide whether a particular set of facts leads to a particular conclusion?
How should we decide what is the best option when we have to choose between different courses of action? How can we determine what is true and what is not? What is right and what is wrong? How should we determine what is the best explanation for a particular set of facts? To answer these questions we need to think clearly and accurately. Unfortunately, we are all capable of making mistakes when we think. Sometimes these mistakes are errors of logic and can be eliminated with a better understanding of the logical structure of reasoning. Sometimes they are mistakes deeply rooted in our psychology and becoming familiar with these limitations on our rationality will help us to avoid them. Developing your analytical thinking skills will help improve your ability to assess situations, make better decisions, and avoid mistakes. It is also one of the elements that will improve your ability to persuade other people to adopt your point of view. Analytical thinking is a vital tool for those in business. Being able to analyse any situation clearly and effectively will ensure that you make better decisions. Analytical thinking is essential for those still in education. Being able to think clearly will improve the quality of your work. How to Think is a step-by-step guide to thinking about problems both large and small, covering all the essential elements of good analytical thinking from different types of claims and beliefs, via argument structure, fallacies and cognitive biases to sound conclusions and consequences as well as how to compare arguments and the best state of mind to consider problems. Available as an ebook via our website or in paperback or on Kindle.  Master Your Memory Kindle Edition
Do you wish that you had a better memory?
Master Your Memory from The Oxford Centre for the Mind is a step-by-step guide that will help you emulate the techniques of expert memorisers. Using psychology, philosophy and neuroscience as well as lessons from the ancient world, it will help you to develop your memory and apply what you learn to a wide variety of real-life situations. Filled with practical exercises to help you develop your memory skills, it starts off with an introduction to the different aspects of your memory and shows you what the brain finds easy to recall and why. It will then take you through the techniques used by expert memorisers and show you in detail how to make them your own, providing you with the opportunity to use those techniques to create your own new memories. It will demonstrate how to use different memory systems to take advantage of the brain's natural capacities and ensure that you can recall as much as you want in a way that makes it easy, engaging and enjoyable, as well as how to overcome the natural processes that cause you to forget. It will show you how to apply what you have learnt to a wide variety of real-life situations including education, career and business. For example, remembering appointments, to-do lists, names and faces, numbers, historical facts, foreign languages, scientific formulae, legal cases, speeches and presentations. Finally, it will show you how to practise your new-found skills and provide you with a number of quizzes, tests and challenges to ensure that you make the most of them. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. |
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Complete Quick Courses Bundle: Strategies of Mental Success
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The complete Quick Courses bundle contains all of the books that form part of our Quick Courses series. The include our courses on: -
Available only as an ebook via our store. Each individual course can also be purchased separately in all formats and is described in greater detail below. |
Our Quick Course Series
Our Quick Course on concentration and focus is designed to quickly and efficiently introduce you to the benefits of learning to still the mind.
A practical course, it will explain the psychological and physiological benefits of being able to devote all of your mental energies to a task without distraction and guide you in detail through the necessary steps to ensure you can make this a part of your life. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. |
Your brain devotes a huge proportion of its resources to processing the information derived from your five senses, primarily from what you see. By learning to visualise, you can start to use those parts of your brain for your own ends. The more of your brain you use, the more effective it will be. So by learning to visualise, you can improve your overall mental performance.
The Visualisation Quick Course from The Oxford Centre for the Mind will show you how to do just that as well as how to apply visualisation techniques to a number of different scenarios such as helping to develop your memory, achieving your goals and improving your physical performance. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. |
Throughout history there have been tales of people who could perform prodigious feats of memory using a variety of mental techniques, techniques which anyone can use and which don't require you to be a genius. These techniques are relatively easy to learn and can be applied in most situations where it is important to remember reliably.
Our Memory Quick Course provides you with ways of remembering different kinds of information such as speeches, presentations, lists of facts, appointments, deadlines, to-do lists, as well as names and faces. It will enable to use your memory more effectively in any situation you may encounter. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. |
We live in an information based society where the amount of information available, particularly written information, is increasing at rates unparalleled in human history: one new book is published every thirteen seconds somewhere in the world. For those of us who have to read as part of our jobs or our studies, it can be difficult to find the time to get through everything we need to.
Our speed reading course will show you how to read at speeds of 1,000 words per minute and more so that you can get through all the reading you need to without compromising your enjoyment or your comprehension. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. 
Creative thinking is the ability to generate new ideas and to find new and unexpected solutions to problems. Creativity is often associated with the arts and the media. However, it can be useful in all areas of life. For instance, in business it is vital in fields such as product design or software development; it can be useful in finding innovative solutions to legal problems, or in campaigning journalism. The ability to think creatively is also hugely important in academic areas such as scientific research.
Our Creative Thinking Quick Course will help you to develop your ability to think creatively by outlining a very specific set of techniques that you can use. We will show how your brain's associative capacity can be utilised as a springboard for creativity and then demonstrate how to build on that springboard by focusing on particular facets of the ideas that you generate, leading you in a multitude of new directions. We will also outline the influence that your state of mind can have on your ability to think creatively and show you how to access these creative states of mind. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. 
Why do we communicate? Often it will be to achieve some kind of goal. It might be to ask for something, to convey an idea, to persuade someone to do something or simply to make someone like us.
If we communicate effectively it should help us to achieve that goal, but if we communicate poorly it might have the opposite effect. The purpose of understanding how we communicate is to help us tailor our communication in such a way that it maximises its effectiveness, moving us closer to what we want, while being consistent with what we want to say. Our Communication Quick Course includes how to establish rapport with anyone, the different ways we view the world and how that can affect the language we use, tailoring the words we use to our audience, learning language patterns that will elicit other people's resources and the questions that will help us to understand exactly what they mean. It comes packed with exercises that will help you put what you learn into practice and make you a master communicator. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. 
Good quality sleep and rest are vital components in ensuring that both our brain and body perform to their full potential.
The Healthy Sleep Quick Course from the Oxford Centre for the Mind will help you get the most out of the time you spend asleep, help you determine how much sleep you need, when to go to bed and when to get up. It includes advice on how you can get to sleep more easily and deals with factors that may prevent you from doing so. The Healthy Sleep course will help you to be fully rested during the night and fully energised during the day. Available in ebook, paperback or on Kindle. |
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