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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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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 07, 2008 Type: User Review Ideas -- Some Good, Some Wrong

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 10, 2008 Type: User Review Brain hacks

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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From: Amazon Posted: May 24, 2008 Type: User Review Lots of ideas, very few of practical use

Many of the 'hacks' are actually more difficult than the problem they are intended to solve.
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 31, 2008 Type: User Review Valuable and entertaining

This is a valuable book that is also very entertaining.

The book is a compilation of seventy-five "hacks" designed to help us "overclock" our brains. Catchy! What it means is that the book is a collection of tips and techniques that...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 03, 2007 Type: User Review It's a book on trying to improve your brain.

Ever wanted to learn to hack that meatspace computer inside your skull? This book may help you learn how. Ironically, all I remember about the book without cracking the cover is the section on memory improvement.
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