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    Your IQ is much higher than you think
    Your IQ is much higher than you think
    Your IQ is much higher than you think
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    Your IQ is much higher than you think

    By Michael Petty

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    Your IQ can be developed dramatically. This book shows how a high IQ can be developed, how governments try to stop you succeeding in school, and how you can be a very successful student in school, college and university.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Petty
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781466014374
    Your IQ is much higher than you think
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    Michael Petty

    Dr. MICHAEL PETTY Ph.D. is an authority on accelerated learning, IQ, Neuro Science and brainwave entrainment. He has a BA from Durham UK, an MA from Calgary and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was a Canada Council Doctoral Fellow and his 1980 research on change in IQ scores, published in the British Journal Educational Research is still cited in Psychological texts. His latest book is Michael Petty, How to Boost your IQ and Become an A+ Student, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/134033

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      Your IQ is much higher than you think - Michael Petty

      Your IQ Is Much Higher Than You Think

      By Dr. Michael Petty

      Copyright 2012 Michael Petty

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and I purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return toSmashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard workof this author.

      Introduction

      Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft, has a very high IQ; his IQ score is said to be 160. He is worth about a hundred billion dollars.

      You can raise your IQ through brainwave entrainment. Some people have learned how to exercise their brains to achieve a laser-like focus. Mental focus can be achieved through meditation.

      Meditation is not just for monks. The focus you will gain through meditation will greatly increase you mind power and you can achieve focus in half an hour of practice, even less, each day.

      Haven’t got half an hour to spare? You have that much time to spare and more because that half hour will speed your mind and concentration so that you gain more than half an hour just through gaining focus.

      The monks who taught meditation did not mean for the power of mental focus to be used for selfish ends but in fact meditation that focuses the mind can be used for any purpose, to gain success in life, even to garner great wealth.

      Meditation can be accelerated through brainwave entrainment, and brainwave entrainment is as easy as listening to mp3 tracks through a set of headphones.

      Read on and I shall show you how to attain a genius IQ.

      My Childhood Dream Was Threatened

      As a child, my dream was to become an engineer. To realize my dream I knew I would have to do well in school in order to get into university. At that time in England, where I lived, the school system was divided into two tiers. The first tier was the sought-after grammar schools for the top 15% to 25% of children. Grammar school students were destined to be lawyers, doctors, engineers, accountants, scientists and other professionals.

      The second tier of schools was for children destined to become carpenters or plumbers or hairdressers at best, at worst laborers or unemployed.

      Entrance to the grammar schools was dependent on one exam, administered at 11 years of age. With very, very few exceptions, only children who passed the 11+ exam were able to go on to university. The 80% who failed 11+ joined the dummies in the secondary modern schools. If they were lucky they might aspire to a skilled trade.

      For an 11 year old boy with ambitions to be a scientist, the 11+ exam was extremely daunting. Full of nerves I sat the exam, and as time ran on the sinking feeling in my stomach grew. By the time the exam was over, so were my dreams of becoming an engineer. I knew I’d failed the 11 plus. I would never become an engineer. I’d let myself down. I’d let my parents down. For an 11 year old, these are distressing thoughts. I had failed the 11+ exam despite the fact that I was later to learn I had an IQ on a par with Bill Gates.

      Now I have a BA, an MA, and a PhD with an average of ‘A’ for my coursework from three of the world’s leading universities. I was awarded a prestigious Canada Council Fellowship to study for the PhD. Having started out with the ambition to become a physical scientist, I became a social scientist instead.

      After immigrating to Canada from England I applied for a commission in the Army Reserve and I was told by the psychologists who tested me that I had the highest IQ score ever recorded by the Canadian Army. So I have an IQ above 160. This made very little impression on me at the time; I did not feel all of a sudden that I was very intelligent. IQ was not a concept that impressed me very much then. After I completed my IQ research in 1980 IQ impressed me even less.

      A high IQ does not guarantee success in school or in life. A high IQ may be necessary for success but it is not sufficient.

      I went on to teach social psychology and applied statistics at University for 14 years and had my own research companies for over twenty years. Both my children have advanced degrees. One is a Hollywood award winning script writer; the other became a full professor and dean at a leading business school at the young age of 30.

      If only I could have told my 11 year old self, in those dark days following my failure in the 11+ exam, that anyone can achieve this. One exam result is purely that – just one result. It does not indicate our real intelligence or predict our future success. As I have discovered, in university research, we all have more brain power than most of us can ever use. We have brain power to spare.

      This is why I have written this book, to help everyone achieve their full potential.

      In this e-book I introduce the key techniques of brainwave entrainment (BWE) which will make studying easier, boost your IQ and help you become an outstanding scholar.

      One of the things I learned in my career through high school and three universities in three countries for three degrees was that almost anyone can not only succeed but can even excel in school. I never regarded myself as an academic or an intellectual or a ‘brain’ but I became a successful scholar.

      Nobody else regarded me as a ‘brain’ or a nerd either. I was at various times a high school boxer, a marksman with three light infantry weapons, the rifle, submachine gun and light machine gun, a very average rugby player, a soldier and an RAF pilot. In the two years when I was a regular soldier in the British Army for National Service I wore a marksman’s crossed rifles badge on my sleeve.

      I was never anything like an intellectual. My main hobbies were cross country running, shooting, and drinking a social beer or three. I also served for many years as transport officer in the Canadian Citizen Military Force and as an infantry officer in the Australian Army Reserve. These are not organizations with a strong intellectual ethos.

      For entertainment I still read thrillers, not the classics and I listen to rock’n’roll, not classical music.

      Bounce

      I came across an interesting opinion piece in the New York Times:

      The most important book I’ve read over the past six months is Matthew Syed’s ‘Bounce.’ Too many of us believe in the talent" myth — that top performers are born, rather than built. But Syed shows that in almost every arena in which tasks are complex, top performers excel not because of innate ability but because of dedicated practice." Peter Orszag, Opinionator, New York Times, September 9, 2010

      Syed, a British table tennis Olympian and writer, says in Bounce that just about anyone has the talent to achieve world class performance in some ‘arena in which tasks are complex’ if they will just practice, practice and practice. He says that you do not need to be especially talented to become a world class athlete.

      Thomas Alva Edison, inventor and genius, said the same thing succinctly in 1932: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Edison was in a position to know, he held a world record of 1,093 patents for inventions such as the light bulb and the phonograph.

      Syed is not saying that anyone can achieve world class status in any sport. That would clearly be ridiculous. We are born with physical differences and I could no more become a world class basketball player than a big person could become a champion jockey, I am not tall enough to be a champion basketball player, or small enough to be a champion jockey, nor are most people.

      What Syed says resonated with me because it chimed with my experience in school and university. And what he is saying is that sporting success has little to do with talent, it is mostly a matter of hard work.This is an inspiring thought; it means that if you are not obviously talented you should not be deterred from pursuing your dream, wherever your dream may lead you.

      Our Brains Are More Equal Than Our Bodies

      Our brains are more equal than our bodies. If you are small and slight you will not become a basketball champion but you might become a champion jockey. But bodies are more different than brains. Most people can achieve any intellectual goal that interests them; I did. And if I can do it so can you.

      Our brains are like a 600 horsepower Dodge Viper V10 engine in a Volkswagen Beetle. We all have more brain power than most of can use. We have brain power to spare. Almost everyone is born with a remarkable brain. Almost everyone can excel in school. If you are reading this you can excel in school.

      (Some people are brain damaged and cannot develop a high IQ. It is estimated that one billion people go to bed hungry every night and many of them are children. Starvation can damage the brain for life. Children brought up in poverty may not have the capacity to develop a high IQ. Physical injury can also damage the brain.)

      Why do Asians Excel in School?

      One of the things I learned as an academic and as a parent is that Asians are extraordinarily successful in school. They are successful in America and in Australia, and in their home countries.

      My son John (not his real name) went to a private high school that had reasonably high academic standards but he became more interested in body building and acting on stage; and he excelled in these activities He became a

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