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Mind Performance Hacks

Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain

By
Ron Hale-Evans
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
February 2006
Pages:
336
Description
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.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Memory

    1. Remember 10 Things to Bring

    2. Use the Number-Shape System

    3. Make Lots of Little Journeys

    4. Stash Things in Nooks and Crannies

    5. Use the Major System

    6. Use the Dominic System

    7. Visit the Hotel Dominic

    8. Dominate Your Memory

    9. Memorize Numbers with Carroll's Couplets

    10. Tune In to Your Memory

    11. Consume Your Information in Chunks

    12. Overcome the Tip-of-the-Tongue Effect

  2. Chapter 2 Information Processing

    1. Catch Your Ideas

    2. Write Faster

    3. Speak Your Brain's Language

    4. Map Your Mind

    5. Build an Exoself

    6. Pre-Delete Cruft

  3. Chapter 3 Creativity

    1. Seed Your Mental Random-Number Generator

    2. Force Your Connections

    3. Contemplate Po

    4. Scamper for Ideas

    5. Deck Yourself Out

    6. Constrain Yourself

    7. Think Analogically

    8. Enjoy Good, Clean Memetic Sex

    9. Play Mind Music

    10. Sound Your Brain with Onar

    11. Keep a Dream Journal

    12. Hold a Question in Mind

    13. Adopt a Hero

    14. Go Backward to Be More Inventive Going Forward

    15. Spend More Time Thinking

    16. Extend Your Idea Space with Word Spectra

  4. Chapter 4 Math

    1. Put Down That Calculator

    2. Make Friends with Numbers

    3. Test for Divisibility

    4. Calculate Mental Checksums

    5. Turn Your Hands into an Abacus

    6. Count to a Million on Your Fingers

    7. Estimate Orders of Magnitude

    8. Estimate Square Roots

    9. Calculate Any Weekday

  5. Chapter 5 Decision Making

    1. Foresee Important Problems

    2. Predict the Length of a Lifetime

    3. Find Dominant Strategies

    4. Eliminate Dominated Strategies

    5. Don't Overthink It

    6. Roll the Dice

  6. Chapter 6 Communication

    1. Put Your Words in the Blender

    2. Learn an Artificial Language

    3. Communicate in E-Prime

    4. Learn Morse Code Like an Efficiency Expert

    5. Harness Stage Fright

    6. Ask Stupid Questions

    7. Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun

  7. Chapter 7 Clarity

    1. Learn Your Emotional ABCs

    2. Avoid Cognitive Distortions

    3. Use the Fourfold Breath

    4. Meditate

    5. Hypnotize Yourself

    6. Talk to Yourself

    7. Interview Yourself

    8. Cultivate the Naive Mind

    9. Employ Mental Momentum

  8. Chapter 8 Mental Fitness

    1. Warm Up Your Brain

    2. Play Board Games

    3. Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games

    4. Don't Neglect the Obvious: Sleep, Nutrition, and Exercise

    5. Get a Good Night's Sleep

    6. Navigate Around the Post-Lunch Dip

    7. Overclock Your Brain

    8. Learn the Facts About Cognitive Enhancers

    9. Snap Yourself to Attention

    10. Assemble Your Mental Toolbox

  1. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Mind Performance Hacks
By:
Ron Hale-Evans
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
February 2006
Ebook Release:
July 2008
Pages:
336
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-10153-4
| ISBN 10:
0-596-10153-8
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-15311-3
| ISBN 10:
0-596-15311-2
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About the Author

  1. Ron Hale-Evans

    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.

    View Ron Hale-Evans's full profile page.

Colophon

The image on the cover of Mind Performance Hacks is a stopwatch, a timepiece that begins counting seconds at the push of a button and stops when the button is pushed again. Stopwatches are used to keep time when the measurement needs to be extremely precise, such as in races or scientific experiments. Although all stopwatches used to be mechanical, like the one on the cover, some now also come in the electronic variety, displaying the time they keep digitally on an LCD.

  • Book cover of Mind Performance Hacks
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