Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Prologue
6. What Is Your Mental Age?
7. 1.   Welcome to My Brain
8. 2.   If I Knew Now What I Knew Then
9. 3.   I Get Me Smarter Soon
10. 4.   Head Shots; or, Lights, Camera, Magnets
11. 5.   My IQ, Part 1; or, How Smart I Was Not; or, In Search of Remembrance Now; or, the Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov
12. 6.   My Brain Goes to Gym Class (But at Least It Doesn’t Have to Play Dodgeball)
13. 7.   Pole-Vaulting My Way to Intellectual Heights. I Mean Stepping on a Kitchen Chair to Reach the Low-Fat Mayonnaise.
14. 8.   Om, Um, Oy
15. 9.   Let’s Learn Cherokee!
16. 10. Shock It to Me, Baby
17. 11. Name That Tune; or, This Shouldn’t Even Count as a Chapter if You Ask Me
18. 12. Faster, Bigger, More Smarter? The Reckoning
19. Acknowledgments
20. About the Author
21. Praise
22. Newsletters
23. Copyright