Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain by Ron Hale-Evans

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  • Pub. Date: February 2006
  • 330pp
  • Sales Rank: 610,982

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    • Pub. Date: February 2006
    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 330pp
    • Sales Rank: 610,982

    Synopsis

    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: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brainby Anonymous

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    September 23, 2006: So buy this book and make the most use of it! Just think of this book as kind of martial arts program for your brain. Each chapter (and there's 22 in all) stands out on its own and discusses a particular area you can improve on, such as memory, creativity, math, communication, and so on. It's an easy read and since each chapter stands out by itself, you can jump around and go to the areas that interest you the most. A great book with a lot of clever and PRACTICAL ideas, I give it 5 stars easy.

    Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brainby Anonymous

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    September 04, 2006: Do you want to become a better thinker? If you do, then this book is for you! Author Ron Hale-Evans, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is designed to help you learn to hack your brain intentionally, safely and productively. Evans, begins by examining ways to improve your ability to remember information ranging from the periodic table of elements to phone numbers, maps, and spatial locations as well as, how not to leave your keys and your cell phone at home. Then, the author shows you how to minimize the demands on your attention by maximizing your ability to process this deluge of information. Next, the author reviews some useful techniques for almost any creative challenge you might encounter. The author then examines basic hacks to do mental math, including the four-banger operations, how to check your math, how to count to large numbers on your fingers, and some practical applications, such as calculating the day of the week for any day on the calendar. He continues by helping you separate high-priority from low-priority issues and how to decide to take action on those priorities. Then, the author shows you how to get ideas across in ways that are clear, creative or cryptic. He then discusses hacks for gaining the emotional and intellectual clarity and the perspective needed to solve problems and make good decisions. Finally, they looks at hacks that keep your brain strong and flexible overall, no matter what your age. In this most excellent book, you?ll find a lot of real-life tip and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. More importantly, with this book, you?ll be able to cut through the clutter and tune up your brain purposefully, safely, and productively.