Mind Performance Hacks

Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain

By: Ron Hale???evans

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Paperback | 14 February 2006

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You're smart. This book can make you smarter. Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively. Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to: * Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall * Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin * Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods * Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away * Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages * Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions * Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games While the hugely successful Mind Hacks showed you how your brain works, Mind Performance Hacks shows you how to make it work better.

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"Mind Performance Hacks" is an entertaining and rewarding read for anyone interested in improving the way they use their brain. Many of the hacks are really a framework upon which to build your own systems... The techniques are inspiring and practical." Gavin Inglis, news@UK, June 2006

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Credits	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Memory	p. 1
Remember 10 Things to Bring	p. 1
Use the Number-Shape System	p. 4
Make Lots of Little Journeys	p. 7
Stash Things in Nooks and Crannies	p. 10
Use the Major System	p. 14
Use the Dominic System	p. 18
Visit the Hotel Dominic	p. 22
Dominate Your Memory	p. 25
Memorize Numbers with Carroll's Couplets	p. 29
Tune In to Your Memory	p. 33
Consume Your Information in Chunks	p. 37
Overcome the Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect	p. 39
Information Processing	p. 43
Catch Your Ideas	p. 43
Write Faster	p. 46
Speak Your Brain's Language	p. 54
Map Your Mind	p. 59
Build an Exoself	p. 63
Pre-Delete Cruft	p. 67
Creativity	p. 71
Seed Your Mental Random-Number Generator	p. 71
Force Your Connections	p. 73
Contemplate Po	p. 81
Scamper for Ideas	p. 83
Deck Yourself Out	p. 86
Constrain Yourself	p. 92
Think Analogically	p. 95
Enjoy Good, Clean Memetic Sex	p. 100
Play Mind Music	p. 104
Sound Your Brain with Onar	p. 107
Keep a Dream Journal	p. 111
Hold a Question in Mind	p. 112
Adopt a Hero	p. 115
Go Backward to Be More Inventive Going Forward	p. 119
Spend More Time Thinking	p. 121
Extend Your Idea Space with Word Spectra	p. 124
Math	p. 127
Put Down That Calculator	p. 127
Make Friends with Numbers	p. 133
Test for Divisibility	p. 137
Calculate Mental Checksums	p. 140
Turn Your Hands into an Abacus	p. 144
Count to a Million on Your Fingers	p. 150
Estimate Orders of Magnitude	p. 157
Estimate Square Roots	p. 161
Calculate Any Weekday	p. 164
Decision Making	p. 169
Foresee Important Problems	p. 169
Predict the Length of a Lifetime	p. 174
Find Dominant Strategies	p. 178
Eliminate Dominated Strategies	p. 183
Don't Overthink It	p. 186
Roll the Dice	p. 189
Communication	p. 194
Put Your Words in the Blender	p. 194
Learn an Artificial Language	p. 198
Communicate in E-Prime	p. 204
Learn Morse Code Like an Efficiency Expert	p. 207
Harness Stage Fright	p. 211
Ask Stupid Questions	p. 217
Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun	p. 220
Clarity	p. 225
Learn Your Emotional ABCs	p. 225
Avoid Cognitive Distortions	p. 230
Use the Fourfold Breath	p. 233
Meditate	p. 236
Hypnotize Yourself	p. 240
Talk to Yourself	p. 245
Interview Yourself	p. 248
Cultivate the Naive Mind	p. 252
Employ Mental Momentum	p. 256
Mental Fitness	p. 259
Warm Up Your Brain	p. 259
Play Board Games	p. 261
Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games	p. 269
Don't Neglect the Obvious: Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise	p. 272
Get a Good Night's Sleep	p. 276
Navigate Around the Post-Lunch Dip	p. 281
Overclock Your Brain	p. 283
Learn the Facts About Cognitive Enhancers	p. 286
Snap Yourself to Attention	p. 290
Assemble Your Mental Toolbox	p. 293
Index	p. 297
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