Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - Softcover

Book 14 of 60: Hacks

Hale-Evans, Ron

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9780596101534: Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0596101538 ISBN 13: 9780596101534
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2006

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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About the Author

Ron Hale-Evans is a writer and game designer who earns his daily sandwich with frequent gigs as a technical writer. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale, with a minor in philosophy. Thinking a lot about thinking led him to create the Mentat Wiki at http://www.ludism.org/mentat, which led to this book. His multifarious and nefarious other projects can be accessed from his home page, http://ron.ludism.org, including his award-winning board games, a list of his Short-Duration Personal Saviours, and his blog. His wife Marty is a better man than he is.

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Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0596101538
ISBN 13 
9780596101534
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
330
Rating
  • 3.88 out of 5 stars
    945 ratings by Goodreads