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    The Genius Within
    The Genius Within
    The Genius Within
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    The Genius Within

    Written by David Adam

    Narrated by David Thorpe

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    Award-winning science writer David Adam, reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence.
    What if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, bestselling author David Adam explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement. Sharing his own experiments with revolutionary smart drugs and electrical brain stimulation, he delves into the sinister history of intelligence tests and reveals how he boosted his own IQ to cheat his way into Mensa.
    “Witty, sharp and enlightening ... This book will make you smarter.” ADAM RUTHERFORD

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateFeb 8, 2018
    ISBN9781528807494
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    David Adam

    Dr David Adam is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Man Who Couldn't Stop and an editor at Nature, the world’s top scientific journal. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. During this time he was named feature writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers, and reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle.

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      Just goes to say .. being called intelligent or having a piece of paper or metric that says so doesn’t amount to much, it’s what you actually do with that intelligence that’s what actually stands for something.. all round Great listen though