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Learning Mathematics in Ten Minutes A Day [Draw
and colour your own pictures Day One Did you know that you do your thinking with your brain? OK. You know that. But do you know how big your brain is? Or what it looks like? Put your two fists together in front of you, like this:
Thinking means that all sorts of messages are whizzing around your brain making connections with each other in the two halves. Even very clever people don't know exactly how this works: but we do know that one side of the brain, mostly on the left, takes care of working with words. The other side, mostly on the right, takes care of working with pictures. See what different things happens when you see a picture:
Do you feel a difference? When you see an ice-cream, you know what it was at once. If it was a real ice-cream, you could eat it without even thinking of its name. But when you read the word ICE-BERG - not looking at all like an ice-berg - your brain can give you a picture to go with it. This is a big difference. When we see things, we usually know what to do at once. Much more of the brain has to be used when words must be recognised. Albert Einstein was one of the cleverest men who ever lived. But when he was little, Albert had a lot of trouble turning his thoughts into words. He had to think and think and try and try to do this. This is an important clue for what comes next. Albert grew up learning better and better how to connect words, which are really also pictures, with his thoughts, and his thoughts with words that are spoken or written. He worked especially hard at making these connections. Every year it got easier, and every year Albert got cleverer. He made almost all his brain work almost all the time. In fact he made it work so well that he said he could FEEL his thoughts pulling themselves into shape. Wouldn't it be nice for that to happen to you [HERE
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