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The fun-filled three day 'Festival of the Mind' gets under way tomorrow and there's a chance to meet and chat with some of the very best in the mind games and memory business who are travelling to Bahrain from across the world.
The star of the show for the second consecutive year will be Tony Buzan who will provide lectures on his famous mind development techniques.
Tony Buzan is world renowned as the inventor of Mind Maps(r), and is a skilled international lecturer and best-selling author of 95 books on memory and the workings of the brain who was among the group which first established the Festival of the Mind.
Fuad Mubarak, deputy CEO of Intelnacom, which is staging the event, said: "We are thrilled, once again, to have Tony Buzan provide us with his presence and lectures during the festival. His appearance is much anticipated and we have already received inquiries for his performances."
He added: "The workshops were very popular last year and we are working to increase the number for this year so that no-one who is keen to expand their mental capacity though learning at the Festival of the Mind is disappointed."
Significantly, modern studies confirm that creativity is not a rare gift of the chosen few but a series of cognitive skills that can be taught, harnessed and applied. When such skills are developed effectively, the possibilities for individuals to expand their minds, create, manage and lead are infinite.
Workshops, some in both Arabic and English, will be held on mind development techniques such as the power of positive thinking; unleash the power of your memory; mind mapping and memory skills; developing a child's emotional Intelligence; read faster and better with colour technology; food for the brain and many more.
As part of The Festival of the Mind, we will see the annual World Memory Championships at which competitors from all over the World will vye for the title of World Memory Champion battling it out in 10 disciplines such as spoken numbers, playing cards, dates, abstract images, binary digits, random words and names and faces.
Overall, the annual World Memory Championship represents one of the toughest mental tests of all time with competitors being asked to memorise 4,000 digit numbers and recall with absolute accuracy at least ten packs of cards in one hour.
The festival is open to all visitors and promises to be a spectacular event. To find out more log onto www.worldfestivalofthemind.com or
call 17546262.
ON the eve of the Festival of the Mind and World Memory Championships we are giving you a final taste of what's to come.
Here are the answers to last week's brain teasers. See how you did ... then read on for this week's posers.
Answers:
1. 8,549,017,632 is unique because it is in alphabetical order with 0 as nought, if you call it zero it moves to the end.
2. Yes you should change your mind. This improves your chances of being correct from one in three to two in three.
If this seems confusing, consider the problem as follows: If you do not change your choice, you will only win if your original guess was correct (one chance in three); if you do change your choice, you will always win if your original guess was wrong (two chances in three).
For example: Say the million is in 'c'. If you choose 'a', the host has to open 'b' (because he knows that 'c' contains the million) and the switch (to 'c') will be a winning move. Similarly, if you choose 'b' the host has to open 'a', and again the switch (to 'c') will win. Of course if you choose 'c' and switch then you lose. But the switch wins two times out of three.
3.(4 is the 'square' of 2). There is actually an ingenious alternative solution: IL (Roman for 49 - the square of 7).
4. Nothing else in the English Language rhymes with them.
Questions:
1. Peter and his teenage grand-daughter Gemma share the same birthday. This year it was noted that the square of Peter's age was equal to the cube of Gemma's age. How old is Peter?
2. When was the last year in which someone could have been born in order to live in a year which was the square of their age?
3. Can you find six four letter words which use the same four letters?
4.Most nouns in the English language are pluralised by the addition of an 's'. Can you find a common word, that with the addition of an 's' is not only turned from a plural into a singular, but also changes gender?
