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mystery novel, it will sharpen your intuition,” she
writes in Brain Building. “The Sherlock Holmes sto-
ries by Arthur Conan Doyle never go out of favor, and
rightly so. Holmes’s methods are brain-builders brought
to life.”
When people think of personal transformation, they
don’t normally think they can strengthen their own in-
telligence. IQ is something our cultural attitudes have
always said we’re born with and stuck with. But Vos
Savant, whose IQ was measured at 230 (the average
adult IQ is 100), believes strongly that the brain can be
built as surely and as quickly as the muscles of the body.
So the next time you feel like curling up with a good
mystery, don’t feel guilty or nonproductive. It might be
the most productive thing you’ve done all day.
90. Think your way up
In some of my seminars I like to draw a picture of a
ladder on the board and call it “the ladder of selves.”
On the very bottom I write “The Physical,” in the
middle I put “The Emotional,” and at the top I place
“The Mind.” We can move up or down this ladder by the
sheer force of will, although most people don’t know
they have that option.
By traveling up the ladder, past the physical,
through the emotional, and into your mind, you have
the opportunity to be creative and thoughtful. You can
see possibilities.
Many of us, however, never get past the emotional
section of the ladder. When we’re stuck there, we begin
thinking with our feelings instead of thinking with our
minds.
If you hurt my feelings, and I’m angry and resentful,
I might give you a long and eloquent speech about what’s