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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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 26 Ratings

Ideas -- Some Good, Some Wrong - 2008-07-07
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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.

Intriguing - 2009-03-17
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There are a million mind methods and lots of people have good ideas. This is good collection of effective ways to use your head better. It is too bad that more people aren't motivated to think more efficiently. This book can help the motivated.

A great collection of "hacks" to improve yourself. - 2009-02-17
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Simple as that. Check out the table of contents to see the wide variety of hacks presented in the book. Just one of the groups of hacks (number-processing) was worth the purchase price alone. I read one comment that noted the hacks were complicated and therefore were not really "hacks", as if they were supposed to just breeze right through the book in one night and jump the 'ol IQ 500 points; not gonna happen. The book is densely packed with information that's gonna require thought, some planning, and time. Some of the hacks are simple (play mind music)and some will require occasional revisiting (calculating mental checksums)in order for you to use them efficiently. If you do one a day; by the end of the year, you'll have some handy techniques for navigating this crazy world.

The Operator's Manual for Your Brain - 2008-11-10
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This book has a few non-practical (and thus weak) sections, but overall this is required reading for members of the human species.

Help With Clear Thinking Is Essential Now - 2008-07-23
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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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