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Tarfumes.com - Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)

Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.
EAN: 9780596101534
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596101538
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: 2006-02-06
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Editorial Reviews:

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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Summary: The Operator's Manual for Your Brain
Comment: This book has a few non-practical (and thus weak) sections, but overall this is required reading for members of the human species.

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Summary: Help With Clear Thinking Is Essential Now
Comment: Help with clear thinking is essential now that the information flow has reached fever pitch and the demands on our brains have escalated so dramatically. When you consider that people base votes for politicians on 'who they'd rather have a beer with,' it becomes obvious that people need help. The paradox is that the people who most need the help are the least likely to benefit from this book, because some degree of clear thinking is necessary before you can gain the advantage of it.

That said, it's a commendable read, it lays out in simplest terms that there are things you can do to clean up your messy brain and actively participate in modern life. Compliance professionals have hijacked the thinking ability of our society, and hacking your brain may be your only hope of escaping from their clutches. Each of these tips serves that purpose, but only if you act on it. I'd put a good night's sleep at the top of the list, because once I got a good night's sleep, i was able to read, recognize and integrate all the rest pretty effortlessly.

Wonder what I mean about compliance professionals? We now understand what people respond to when it comes to persuasion. Insider's Guide To The Art Of Persuasion That can be a good thing when good (and thoughtful) people use it for good purpose. But our only protection from less than desirable persuasive efforts is using our ability to think for ourself. And the more you learn about how to do this, the safer and smarter you'll be. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!

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Summary: Ideas -- Some Good, Some Wrong
Comment: This book is a summary of techniques taken from the mentat wiki. While skimming a sample of hacks from each section, I discovered some less-than-scientific ideas. So, I went to the URL and tracked some of the links. I discovered that some of the links were legitimate links to peer-reviewed wikis, like Wikipedia. However, the contents of mentat do not appear to be peer-reviewed. For example, one link was to an interpretation of a research project which contained the researcher's comment that the site did not correctly interpret his research. Also, some links were to commercial web sites. So, the mentat content is simply a collection of individual opinions about different subjects. Therefore, as always, the hacks in this book should be evaluated with a critical mind. Some of the ideas are legitimate; some are simply extensions of long-held myths; some could be self-motivated trivia.



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Summary: Brain hacks
Comment: Great book! You can learn many hacks to save time, sharpen your mind, remember things, Etc. Etc. Buy it! You will surely find something that will interest you, or help better develop your mind!

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Summary: Lots of ideas, very few of practical use
Comment: Many of the 'hacks' are actually more difficult than the problem they are intended to solve.


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