Albrecht Karl. Brain building: Easy games to develop your problem-solving skills

Prentice Hall Trade, 1984. — 92 p. — ISBN-10: 0130810347, ISBN-13: 978-0130810342Dr. Karl Albrecht is a management consultant, seminar leader, professional speaker, and a prolific author. He has written five other Prentice-Hall books, including Brainpower: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills. Brainpower was the basis for the best-selling training film of the same name, starring John Houseman. Karl Albrecht teaches Brainpower seminars to executives and managers in business organizations.It has been proven that specific training in logical thinking processes can -make people "smarter. " Professors in the physics department at the University of Massachusetts created a tutorial program for physics students who were having trouble with their courses. The most common complaint these students registered was "I can do the math okay, but I have a lot of trouble with the word problems. " From this, the professors concluded that the problem students were deficient in a key mental skill they called sequential thought. This type of thought is the ability to take a poorly organized statement mathematical operations that will produce the solution. By studying the comments these students made as they attempted to solve physics problems, and by studying the comments made by graduate students who were expert problem solvers, researchers were able to develop teaching techniques to help students increase their skills at sequential thought.In a similar vein, I have been analyzing both logical and creative thinking processes as part of my research for courses in thinking at the University of California extension, and for "Brain Power" seminars in corporations. I have found that
being able to apply a simple label to a certain thought process equips a person to develop it and to put it to use on a consistent basis. The more you think about thinking, the more clearly you learn to think.