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Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)by Ron Hale-evans
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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:
While the hugely successful Mind Hacks showed you how your brain works, Mind Performance Hacks shows you how to make it work better. Book News Annotation:Your computer purrs like a kitten. Your cell phone's screen is
pristine. But your mind is a mess, and if your PDA went under a bus,
you would have to crawl into a cave. Technical writer Hale-Evans
offers 75 stand-alone "hacks" (nifty tricks) on memory (including the
Dominic system), information processing (build an exoself, map your
mind), creativity (play mind music), math (mental checksums),
decision making (predict the length of a lifetime), communication
(ask stupid questions) clarity (hypnotize yourself) and mental
fitness (Go ahead! Play those video games!). Hale-Evans gives
directions and exercise ideas, along with applications for the real
world and end notes that also serve as lists of further reading.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Book News Annotation:Your computer purrs like a kitten. Your cell phone's screen is
pristine. But your mind is a mess, and if your PDA went under a bus,
you would have to crawl into a cave. Technical writer Hale-Evans
offers 75 stand-alone "hacks" (nifty tricks) on memory (including the
Dominic system), information processing (build an exoself, map your
mind), creativity (play mind music), math (mental checksums),
decision making (predict the length of a lifetime), communication
(ask stupid questions) clarity (hypnotize yourself) and mental
fitness (Go ahead! Play those video games!). Hale-Evans gives
directions and exercise ideas, along with applications for the real
world and end notes that also serve as lists of further reading.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorRon 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. Table of ContentsCreditsPrefaceChapter 1: MemoryChapter 2: Information ProcessingChapter 3: CreativityChapter 4: MathChapter 5: Decision MakingChapter 6: CommunicationChapter 7: ClarityChapter 8: Mental FitnessColophon
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