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Chatelaine – Mind
Your brain needs inspiration, stimulation, motivation, but not solitary confinement. One major way to keep the mind nimble is to be social. Not only can it tame stress; studies say it sparks healthy connections between brain cells.
Today's Farmer – Want To Improve Your Memory?
Brian Thwaits, author of the book, The Big Learn: Smart Ways to Use Your Brain, was the keynote speaker at the Southwest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown. He told an estimated 1100 farmers that, if they're having problems with their memory, they're not alone; most Canadians admit to forgetting everything from where they left their car keys, to a phone number they read just moments earlier in the phone book.
Toronto Sun – Train Your Brain
A pig climbs a tree full of money carrying a suitcase stuffed to bursting with ripe, red tomatoes that blow away and land on a dressed-up cactus that is swinging a golf club. It sounds like a deleted scene from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but to Brian Thwaits, it represents much more: part of a simple but powerful way to memorize information and boost your brain power.
Hamilton Spectator – Food For Thought
Is your brain a party place or Dullsville? The choice is yours, says brain trainer Brian Thwaits. “Our brains are really fun places,” maintains Thwaits....”We just need to know how to use them better.” (He) has become a hot property on the speaking circuit, sharing his brain power boosters with educators, employee groups, parents, managers –– even students as young as in Grade Four.
Simcoe Reformer – Mind Over Matter?
To hear Brian Thwaits tell it, there are three stages of life: youth, middle age and “I forget what I came in here for.” No need to worry if you can’t remember why you entered your kitchen, said Thwaits, who is known as a brain trainer who teaches people to wring more from the enormous potential of their gray matter. Sixty percent of the population can’t remember where they put things, he said this week during a keynote speech for the Haldimand- Norfolk Literacy Council’s annual meeting. But, there’s relief in sight.
AgriNews Interactive – Training Your Brain to Make the Most of Your Life
It’s often been said that most people use only a function of their brain. As a result, most people rarely achieve all that they would like to in life, and many end up failing in areas where they could otherwise succeed. Keynote speaker at the Eastern Ontario Crop Conference on February 19, 2009, Brian Thwaits believes we can utilize our brains with better efficiency by understanding a little about how the brain functions and using a few simple techniques.
Fort Frances Times – Educators Learn How To Train Brains
With a little training, anyone can boost their brain power and improve memory. That was the message keynote speaker Brian Thwaits delivered to a group of educators at the Townshend Theatre during the Rainy River District School Board’s Summer Institute.
Without Prejudice – Balanced-Brain Thinking
The way we use our brains has everything to do with everything we do! It has a huge impact on both our personals and professional lives, affecting the way we think, learn, remember and solve problems. And it influences our lives and the work we do in profound ways. It makes a tremendous impression, for instance, on how we deal with our day-to-day tasks, market our services, give presentations, handle customer service and communicate with others.
Long-Term Care – Smart Ways To Use Your Brain
When I opened my keynote address, You Must Remember This... at the ONHA/ORCA convention in Toronto this past February, I asked those assembled to try as hard as they could to memorize a list of 20 simple words, preferably in the correct order. They didn’t do very well! The average “score” was between 5 and 7 out of 20, or 25-35%.
Chatham News – Improve Your Memory: Calm Down
There's no magic bullet to improving or retaining your memory. But for Brian Thwaits, it's following several principles – and if you follow them, he promises that you'll not only think better and make better decisions, but you'll be more comfortable with the decisions you make.
Business Advisory Centre – Igniting Your Business Brain
Using our brains was certainly something we should have done when we were in school, but its relevance to our accomplishments in the business world is even more significant. In fact, it’s impossible to achieve success in business without boosting our brainpower so that it works better, faster and smarter than that of our competitors.
Chatelaine – Mind
Your brain needs inspiration, stimulation, motivation, but not solitary confinement. One major way to keep the mind nimble is to be social. Not only can it tame stress; studies say it sparks healthy connections between brain cells.
Today's Farmer – Want To Improve Your Memory?
Brian Thwaits, author of the book, The Big Learn: Smart Ways to Use Your Brain, was the keynote speaker at the Southwest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown. He told an estimated 1100 farmers that, if they're having problems with their memory, they're not alone; most Canadians admit to forgetting everything from where they left their car keys, to a phone number they read just moments earlier in the phone book.
Toronto Sun – Train Your Brain
A pig climbs a tree full of money carrying a suitcase stuffed to bursting with ripe, red tomatoes that blow away and land on a dressed-up cactus that is swinging a golf club. It sounds like a deleted scene from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but to Brian Thwaits, it represents much more: part of a simple but powerful way to memorize information and boost your brain power.
Hamilton Spectator – Food For Thought
Is your brain a party place or Dullsville? The choice is yours, says brain trainer Brian Thwaits. “Our brains are really fun places,” maintains Thwaits....”We just need to know how to use them better.” (He) has become a hot property on the speaking circuit, sharing his brain power boosters with educators, employee groups, parents, managers –– even students as young as in Grade Four.
Simcoe Reformer – Mind Over Matter?
To hear Brian Thwaits tell it, there are three stages of life: youth, middle age and “I forget what I came in here for.” No need to worry if you can’t remember why you entered your kitchen, said Thwaits, who is known as a brain trainer who teaches people to wring more from the enormous potential of their gray matter. Sixty percent of the population can’t remember where they put things, he said this week during a keynote speech for the Haldimand- Norfolk Literacy Council’s annual meeting. But, there’s relief in sight.
AgriNews Interactive – Training Your Brain to Make the Most of Your Life
It’s often been said that most people use only a function of their brain. As a result, most people rarely achieve all that they would like to in life, and many end up failing in areas where they could otherwise succeed. Keynote speaker at the Eastern Ontario Crop Conference on February 19, 2009, Brian Thwaits believes we can utilize our brains with better efficiency by understanding a little about how the brain functions and using a few simple techniques.
Fort Frances Times – Educators Learn How To Train Brains
With a little training, anyone can boost their brain power and improve memory. That was the message keynote speaker Brian Thwaits delivered to a group of educators at the Townshend Theatre during the Rainy River District School Board’s Summer Institute.
Without Prejudice – Balanced-Brain Thinking
The way we use our brains has everything to do with everything we do! It has a huge impact on both our personals and professional lives, affecting the way we think, learn, remember and solve problems. And it influences our lives and the work we do in profound ways. It makes a tremendous impression, for instance, on how we deal with our day-to-day tasks, market our services, give presentations, handle customer service and communicate with others.
Long-Term Care – Smart Ways To Use Your Brain
When I opened my keynote address, You Must Remember This... at the ONHA/ORCA convention in Toronto this past February, I asked those assembled to try as hard as they could to memorize a list of 20 simple words, preferably in the correct order. They didn’t do very well! The average “score” was between 5 and 7 out of 20, or 25-35%.
Chatham News – Improve Your Memory: Calm Down
There's no magic bullet to improving or retaining your memory. But for Brian Thwaits, it's following several principles – and if you follow them, he promises that you'll not only think better and make better decisions, but you'll be more comfortable with the decisions you make.
Business Advisory Centre – Igniting Your Business Brain
Using our brains was certainly something we should have done when we were in school, but its relevance to our accomplishments in the business world is even more significant. In fact, it’s impossible to achieve success in business without boosting our brainpower so that it works better, faster and smarter than that of our competitors.
