Book Report: The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger and Richard Poe (c) 1996

The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger and Richard Poe (c) 1996

This is a really interesting and thought provoking book. The Author, Win Wenger has spent most of his career exploring methods for accelerated learning, increasing intelligence and enhancing creativity, and has written over 50 books on the topic for educators and lay people. 

The book includes a series of easy and interesting mental exercises, which he encourages you to try as soon as you've read them. There's also explanations of the concepts behind them, but throughout the book he stresses that you have to actually take action to get results. 

His basic exercise, is something called "Image Streaming," which is as simple as closing your eyes and being aware of images that you see, while describing them to a partner or an audio recorder. He claims this had been proven to increase the IQ scores in test subjects, and with something so simple, why not give it a try? 

That building block forms the basis for many of the other exercises in the book which are designed to improve creativity, inspiration, descriptive skills and much more. 

The book is also available as an audiobook from Nightingale-Conant, and the author is and engaging and entertaining speaker.

Book Report Cross Reference by Topic

Before I post too many more book reports, I though it would be useful to cross reference them by topic:

Hypnosis:
Advance Techniques of Hypnosis,
Hypnotism,
Practical Hypnotism and Mesmerism,
The Power of Hypnosis,
Professional Stage Hypnotism,
25 Lessons in Hypnotism,
The Science of Hypnotism,
Master Secrets of Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis,
The Laws of Psychic Phenomena,
Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor,
Hypnotherapy,
Hypnotism,
Hypnosis: Key to Psychic Power,
Hypnosis: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind WITHOUT DRUGS!
Clinical Hypnosis (Crasilneck & Hall)

Mesmerism:
Practical Hypnotism and Mesmerism,
The Science of Hypnotism,
The Laws of Psychic Phenomena,
Mesmerism Unveiled!

NLP: Neuro Linguistic Programmming Vol. 1

Auto-suggestion and Self-Hypnosis:
Advance Techniques of Hypnosis,
Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-suggestion,
The Practice of Auto-Suggestion,
Self Hypnosis: Creating Your Own Destiny,
Master Secrets of Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis,
The Self Hypnosis Book,
Hypnosis: How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind WITHOUT DRUGS!
Thresholds of the Mind

Mind Control

Telepathy and ESP:
Dream Telepathy,
Parapsychology Today,
Are You Psychic?,
You Are Psychic!,
Psycho-Kinesis,
The Laws of Psychic Phenomena,
Spiritualism and Clairvoyance for Beginners,
Paravision,
Crystal Gazing,
Hypnosis: Key to Psychic Power,
Mental Dominance,
Training Manual for Sight Without Eyes
Science of Breath
Sorcery 
Mind Control  
Master Guide to Psychism  
Entangled Minds

Scientific Methodology:
Dream Telepathy,
Parapsychology Today,
Science and the Supernatural,
The Invisible Gorilla
Clinical Hypnosis (Crasilneck & Hall)
Thresholds of the Mind 
Entangled Minds

Self-Help and Positive Thinking:
Self-Mastery Through Conscious Auto-suggestion,
The Practice of Auto-Suggestion,
Secret Mental Powers:The Miracle of Mind Magic,
The Magic of Psychic Power,
The Einstein Factor,
Hypnosis:
How to Unleash the Power of Your Mind WITHOUT DRUGS!,
Getting What You Want,
Outliers,
Thresholds of the Mind
Mind Control
Transcendental Meditation

Psychology:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,
The Hidden Brain,
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity,
Blink,
Getting What You Want,
The Invisible Gorilla,
Fundamentals of Psychology in Context, 
Clinical Hypnosis (Crasilneck & Hall)

Intelligence:
The Einstein Factor, 
Outliers,

History of Hypnosis:
The Science of Hypnotism,
The Laws of Psychic Phenomena,
25 Lessons in Hypnotism,
Practical Hypnotism and Mesmerism,
Hypnotism

Stage Hypnosis:
Professional Stage Hypnotism, 

Spiritualism:
Spiritualism and Clairvoyance for Beginners,
The Celestine Prophesy,
The Human Dynamo,
Psychonavigation

Symbol Interpretation:
Spiritualism and Clairvoyance for Beginners,
The Einstein Factor

Folklore:
Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor,
Crystal Gazing,
Psychonavigation
Sorcery 

Other Metaphysical:
Astral Travel for Beginners,
The Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah,
Psychonavigation
Science of Breath
Sorcery 

Remote Viewing: 
Training Manual for Sight Without Eye, 
The Laws of Psychic Phenomena

Intuition-- Intelligence, or Lucky Guessing?

I wrote this to someone in response to a great little article in Forbes recently. The author discussed his experience with utilizing intuition in a field he's an expert in. What I liked so much about the article is that he describes his experience first hand. The article is called "Intuition is the Highest Form of Intelligence", by Bruce Kasanoff. You should definitely give it a read, and you can find it here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucekasanoff/2017/02/21/intuition-is-the-highest-form-of-intelligence/#405ad7ff3860

I don't think he's saying intuitive people have more intelligence, but rather, when you're very well versed in your area, you will also develop an intuitive ability that can be relied upon, and that is certainly verifiable in a number of areas.
 
Lets talk about sports, say basketball, though any sport will do. A novice or occasional player will either have to go out and guess what to do without any understanding, or, if he knows a little more, but not much more, he'll have to play "by the numbers" following well established formulae that are taught to all players about what shots to take in which places on the court, what you're "supposed to do" when playing offense of defense, etc. And the guy following those rules will play better than the guy who's just out there flailing around. 
BUT, a professional player, one with thousands of hours on the court will have internalized all those "standard formula" but he'll also have an additional understanding based on his own experience. Those "rules" will have become internalized to the point they become INTUITIVE, and they will free up his conscious understanding to perceive possibilities and options that he can take advantage of that the "play by the numbers" players cannot.

Abraham Maslow identified this in his "Four Phases of Learning." To paraphrase, the first phase is not knowing anything ("unconscious incompetence") The second phase is knowing you have to learn ("conscious incompetence"). The third phase is learning and understanding, but only at a conscious, academic level ("conscious competence"). The fourth stage, which is where you've internalized the understanding to the point of intuitive understanding is called "unconscious competence." 

Unconscious competence can be as exotic as an athlete pulling an impossible play to win a big game or as ordinary as pulling into a busy traffic lane while talking to the kids in the back seat. Unconscious competence is writing out words without thinking of how to spell them, etc.

I occasionally teach drawing, and this is something I actually talk about a lot in my art classes. When an artist is trying to learn to draw a human figure in proportion and get the arms and the legs all the right size, it takes a certain amount of deliberate study, since there are all kinds of things working against him (for example, psychologically, we give more importance to heads and hands, so we tend to make them bigger; foreshortening in a lot of poses gives artists false cues about how limbs relate to each other). So there's a phases where a developing artist might spend a lot of time deliberately measuring out everything in the drawing to get it just right. 

But all of that academic study may still not give the artist sufficient grasp of proportions so that they won't still be a stumbling block. 

So I encourage artists to work a lot from FAST poses, usually 30 second poses, and to do a lot of them. Why? Because in 30 seconds, there's simply NO TIME to think about what you see and transfer that into something you're drawing on the page. Drawing fast COMPELS you to develop an intuitive understanding of the figure and it's parts as a single whole thing. With practice, it compacts that "conscious competence" into the subconscious part of the brain where it becomes a reliable, intuitive function. Not guessing.