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1. “Me at age 10 (September 1966) with Earl the lamb,” image courtesy the author 2. Magnus Carlsen and
Garry Kasparov, image courtesy CBS News 3. Prefrontal cortex, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez
4. Pinball machine, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez
5. Focused and diffuse thinking, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez 6. Triangles, image courtesy the author,
based on an original image idea by de Bono 1970, p. 53
7. Ping-Pong, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez
8. Pyramid of dimes, courtesy the author

9. Nadia Noui-Mehidi, photo courtesy Kevin

Mendez

10. Thomas Edison, courtesy U.S. Deptartment of the Interior, National Park Service, Thomas Edison
National Historical Park 11. Salvador Dalí with ocelot and cane, 1965;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Salvador_Dali_NYWTS.jpg From the Library of Congress. New York
World-Telegram & Sun collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14985; Author: Roger Higgins,
World Telegram staff photographer; no copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction
rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift.
12. Brick walls, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez
13. Four items in working memory, image courtesy author
14. Robert Bilder, image © Chad Ebesutani, photo courtesy Robert Bilder 15. Octopus focused and crazy-
hodgepodge diffuse modes, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez 16. A neural pattern, image © 2013 Kevin
Mendez
17. Puzzle of man’s face, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez and Philip Oakley 18. Top-down and bottom-up
learning, image courtesy author 19. Puzzle of man in Mustang, partly assembled, image © 2013 Kevin
Mendez and Philip Oakley 20. Puzzle of man in Mustang, mostly assembled, image © 2013 Kevin
Mendez and Philip Oakley 21. Chunking a concept into a ribbon, image courtesy the author 22.
Skipping to the right solution, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez 23. Practice makes permanent, image ©
2013 Kevin Mendez
24. Puzzle of Mustang, faint and partly assembled, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez 25. Neural hook, image ©
2013 Kevin Mendez
26. Paul Kruchko and family, photo courtesy Paul Kruchko
27. Procrastination funneling, image © 2013 Kevin Mendez
28. Norman Fortenberry, image © 2011, American Society for Engineering Education; photo by Lung-I Lo

29. Many tiny accomplishments, image courtesy