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    The Smart Habit Guide: 37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making: Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life, #3
    The Smart Habit Guide: 37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making: Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life, #3
    The Smart Habit Guide: 37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making: Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life, #3
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    The Smart Habit Guide: 37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making: Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life, #3

    By I. C. Robledo

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    The Smart Habit Guide is an International Bestseller with over 500 Five-Star Reviews on retailer sites and Goodreads, across four translations.
     

    Think Smarter. Work Smarter. Be Smarter.


    Imagine if there was a secret that all of the smart people in the world were keeping from you. And this meant that they always had an advantage. Really, there isn't just one secret. There are many. They don't keep these secrets on purpose – rather, they are often too busy implementing smart habits to talk about them. These are powerful habits. They drive us to improve our abilities and succeed.

    Internationally bestselling author I. C. Robledo has studied the lives of highly intelligent people for many years. He has concluded that smart people are not born smart. Instead, they acquire habits that keep the brain in top shape.
     

    Inside, you will discover:

    - How putting household items in unexpected places can benefit your memory

    - How to conduct a thought experiment – a tool often used by Einstein

    - Why teaching helps you learn, even if you think you know the material

    - How smart people search deeply for answers, examining details thoroughly

    - Why great thinkers document their thought processes

    Get smarter by making small life changes with The Smart Habit Guide.
     

    Pick up your copy today by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking BUY NOW.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherI. C. Robledo
    Release dateDec 23, 2014
    ISBN9781386312048
    The Smart Habit Guide: 37 Small Life Changes Your Brain Will Thank You for Making: Master Your Mind, Revolutionize Your Life, #3
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    I. C. Robledo

    “Master your mind – Pursue greatness in all things mind, brain, and otherwise.” The best investment we can make is to put our time and effort into building up the mind. This is the #1 tool we will use to solve problems, achieve our goals, and overcome obstacles. The mind is powerful, but its abilities are often underestimated and misunderstood. When we gain a deeper understanding of the mind and brain, we will be able to make greater progress in our personal growth, life goals, and career aspirations. I. C. Robledo is an internationally bestselling author who received his B.A. from Purdue University in psychology, and his M.S. from the University of Oklahoma in industrial-organizational psychology. His books are meant to help readers build their intellectual, creative, and mindful abilities. Robledo writes based on both personal experience and scientific research. His key goals include building a peak performing mind for himself and helping his readers to do the same. Academic publications he has contributed to include Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and “The Handbook of Organizational Creativity”. When not working, I. C. Robledo enjoys reading in many topics, traveling the world, and playing chess and other games of strategy. Contact: ic.robledo@mentalmax.net

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      The Smart Habit Guide - I. C. Robledo

      Introducing Smart Habits

      I have sometimes heard people refer to each other as smart or dumb, as if you had to be one or the other. I’ve noticed that very smart people tend to implement what I would call ‘smart habits’ into their lives. And people who aren’t viewed as being smart often do not. With smart habits, anyone can work on improving their intellectual abilities. I believe that most of the time, people who don’t see themselves as smart just haven’t learned about the right habits to make better use of their minds. Whether you see yourself as smart or not, this book can help you on the path to developing your intellect. This is possible through the power of smart habits.

      What is a Smart Habit?

      A smart habit is just an action you perform regularly because it helps to further develop your mind and intellect. This entire book will be about smart habits and how you can use them in your life.

      Why Smart Habits Matter

      I went through many years when I was younger thinking that I was dumb and slow. This wasn’t actually true, I just hadn’t realized that to develop a smart mind, you have to adopt habits that are challenging and push your mind to work. School can teach you some things, but they usually won’t teach you about which habits will help you in your intellectual development. When learning begins and ends in the classroom, you’re a lot less likely to meet your potential.

      The secret about smart people is that they weren’t born that way. It takes some work to cultivate a great mind. But imagine someone who spends all of his time watching reruns of sitcoms. How smart could such a person be if there wasn’t any focus on doing something challenging? It’s a myth that smart people have it easy. They often work hard, perhaps daily, to further their minds. They’re familiar with smart habits, and they practice using them regularly.

      Allow me to tell you a bit about my background before we go further into what smart habits are all about. Back in high school I was a B student taking some of the tougher courses offered. I had a friend who struggled to get Cs and who took easier classes, and he always had this idea that I was so much smarter than him. He believed that I couldn’t possibly understand how tough he had it because everything just came easy for me. He must have thought I was born to be smart and that was the end of it. But he was wrong. If I never worked on adopting smart habits, I wouldn’t be smart at all.

      One time this friend told me he was failing geometry. I offered to help him since I knew geometry pretty well. He rejected my offer, and it seemed to me that he had given up on himself. I reminded him several times that I was willing to help for no cost, but he never took me up on it. I thought about this situation for a while, and I realized that this friend of mine was not dumb, even though he did end up failing his class. He just didn’t realize that smart people have certain habits that give them advantages. They perform better because they’re good at using habits that work for them. One of those habits, as it turns out, is being willing to get help when you really need it (Habit #30).

      I first discovered the power of smart habits through observing my parents. They were both immigrants to the US and they worked very hard to build good careers for themselves. When I was younger, I noticed my mother would ask many detailed questions pretty regularly. If we were at the doctor’s office and I was sick, she’d make sure she knew what to do in any possible circumstance. She’d ask about side effects, about if I had a problem that could get worse, and so forth. I used to think asking so many questions was a sign of having little understanding of something. But I later came to understand that asking many questions is exactly how people come to truly understand a topic. It was a smart habit (Habit #6).

      I also learned from my father. He was often well informed on events around the world. He would read newspapers, science magazines, and books of various topics. He would talk about history, politics, science, and many other areas as well. As a child I would sometimes struggle to understand as he went into detailed explanations as to why the world is the way it is. An important point I did understand from observing my father was that you can learn quite a bit through reading. That is a smart habit as well (Habit #1).

      I’ve been interested in how smart people do well in life since I was in high school. Back then, as I said, I didn’t feel very smart. I feared growing up to be unintelligent and slow, and surrounded by highly intelligent people who would laugh at my stupidity. This scenario sounds silly, but that was my fear in high school.

      My way of dealing with this worry of being intellectually inferior was to pay close attention to the things smart people did. It didn’t take me long to notice that they used specific habits. If I ever notice someone do something intellectually impressive, I would often ask exactly how they did it. Simply by asking questions I’ve gotten a better understanding of how smart people think, work, and what kind

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