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Sparkles with insightDaniel Pink

This revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its virtually limitless power

As Dr Marian explains while you may well think you speak only one language in fact your mind accommodates multiple codes of communication Some people speak Spanish some Mandarin Some speak poetry some are fluent in math The human brain is built to use multiple languages and using more languages opens doors to creativity brain health and cognitive control

Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret information It alters what we remember how we perceive ourselves and the world around us how we feel the insights we have the decisions we make and the actions we take Language is an invaluable tool for organizing processing and structuring information and thereby unleashing radical advancement

Learning a new language has broad lifetime consequences and Dr Marian reviews research showing that it

Enhances executive functionour ability to focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that dont
Results in higher scores on creativethinking tasks
Develops critical reasoning skills
Delays Alzheimers and other types of dementia by four to six years
Improves decisions made under emotional duress
Changes what we see pay attention to and recall