Sort Your Brain Out Clock Mnemonic
We are very happy to announce that not only have sales of the English edition of Sort Your Brain Out passed the 30,000 copy mark - making it a best seller - but we have also sold nearly 5,000 copies of the Chinese edition! We would like to thank everyone who has supported us by buying a copy and particularly those who've taken the trouble to give us a review on Amazon. The website to download your very own free brain training game - the dual N-back test - is here: http://brai
Boost Your Fluid Intelligence with this Free to Download Working Memory Game
Brain Workshop is a free Dual N-Back game that will improve your working memory and in so doing should boost your fluid intelligence (so long as you train long and hard, even when it gets tough!). There is an awful lot of overstatement in the wonderful world of computerised Brain Training games. However this particular claim is supported by academic research published in a very prestigeous journal. Susan Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl, whilst at the University of Bern in Switze
Green Tea - worthy of "Smart Drug" label?
Room For One More? In the Smart Drugs chapter of SYBO we argued that of the various nootropics available in this day and age it makes sense to give preference to substances that have been around for eons rather than the new kids on the block. This really is the only way you can enjoy the benefits without having to worry about the potential unknown long term problems and side effects. The brain benefits of regular coffee drinking were described, but due to space limitations we
Reviewing the Latest Research
Scientific research into how our brains work and what we can do to make them work better continues to unfold at a breakneck pace. Consequently there is always more information to add to the Sort Your Brain Out story. Too keep you abreast of the latest I have compiled some of the most interesting articles posted on my Twitter feed since the book was published last April. I've grouped them into 33 different categories so you can scroll down to the subjects you are most interest
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Hmmm... What Shall I Get [insert name] for Christmas?
The festive season will be upon us before you know it… We've heard lots of stories over the past few months of people picking up a copy of Sort Your Brain Out to give to a loved one. Which leads ineluctably to the conclusion that Sort Your Brain Out would make an ideal stocking filler. After all, what could be better than the gift of discovering how to move your brain up a gear for the New Year. This easily digestible tale of how our brains work and a variety of brain hacks t
Sort Your Brain Out goes LIVE - Wed 15th Oct - London Business Forum @ Wellcome Collection
On Wed 15th October Dr Jack Lewis & Adrian Webster will be hitting the London Business Forum with their brand new Live Show, We've been working very hard over the past few months to translate Sort Your Brain Out onto the stage. We take delegates on a "round-the-clock" trip, tagging our performance-enhancing brain tips and tricks to specific hours of the day. Not only does it help to package our hour long talk into bite sized chunks but it even helps to bring the grey matter t
SORT YOUR BRAIN OUT Audiobook Available Now
Dr Jack reads Sort Your Brain Out for the audiobook which is available to download from Audible. We haven't quite reached the 6 month mark since our book was launched yet the paper version of Sort Your Brain Out is currently sold out in several WHSmith's outlets across the country. This means it is currently undergoing its 3rd (!!) print run already. Thanks to everyone's fantastic support in ensuring SYBO continues to fly off the shelves in the UK we were over the moon to fin
Sort Your Brain Out is going Great Guns
We have had some cracking reviews on Amazon but the most satisfying moments of the last few months have been when people actively go out of their way to get in touch with us directly. I found the following email extremely satisfying because inspiring people to take an active interest in their brain is exactly what I had hoped to do when I first set out on this project: "After avidly devouring the above amazing book my interest in neuroscience is buzzing. Do you have any sugge
SortYourBrainOut Spotted in the Wild
Many thanks to everyone who have been tweeting their photos of Sort Your Brain Out spotted in the wild (tagged with #SortYourBrainOut). It has been doing extremely well in the WHSmith's travel outlet charts and in most places we've been holding our position in the top ten of both the Non-Fiction and Business book charts. We know that copies of SYBO are now being read by people all the way from Hong Kong to Jamaica. And we've been spotted in train stations, motorway service st
Sort Your Brain Out is now available to order and review on Amazon & will be promoted in W H Smi
Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis met international best-selling business author Adrian Webster when they were both speaking at a conference in Tenerife in 2010. In this, their first book together, they unite their talents to produce an accessible book about the human brain that, to quote a Fellow of the Royal Society: "Distils a century of modern neuroscience into a remarkably fast-flowing and easy-to-read synthesis that describes what our brains do and how we can get the most ou