Mind performance hacks
"Tips & tools for overclocking your brain"--Cover.
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14mentions
12people
2009–2025years
71% recommend29% neutral
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- Copy paragraphs from textbooks. Time-consuming but forces one to slow down and think.
Memorization mnemonics. Shuffling through index cards to associate numbers to words. See Mind Performance Hacks (2006) from O'Reilly.
Make notebooks with cheap filler paper, high-capacity stapler, and duct tape. Use G2 pens or archival quality ink.
Make your own index cards: fold in half and then into thirds; cut those into rectangles. (Still on the lookout for good storage.)
Shade paper with crayon. Carpet is smoother than desks. Envelopes are a good way to iterate color combinations. Pick colors at random.
Convert mailed coupons into CSS. You get salable graphic designs and color palette for free.
Break down milk cartons for free cardstock.
Prime cardboard with paint for a cheap canvas.
- I once sent Kimbro an e-mail (in 2012) about whether he was continuing with this system, and he replied:
> No, I use a new system that I've been using for I think 3 years now. Much simpler and less time consuming. Google around for it- it is also described in book "Mind Performance Hacks 2". The key ideas are open spaces, numbered pages, and tags-like indexes.
- While it's more pragmatic and covers broader ground, "Mind Performance Hacks" by Ron Hale-Evans has its first chapter on memory, and I can recommend it all around.
- The Now Habit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination...
Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059...
Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...
- Your mind is a symphony of interdependent systems, specifically sulfur ion channels, like dominoes that right themselves. The software that runs on these sulfur ion channels are not optimized for how your brain works because our schools today were designed by people who didn't believe processing was done in the brain.
To improve your cognitive toolkit, understand how and why your brain processes data, and change the way you think to improve processing speed 100 times. This book tells you how.
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclock...
- Mind Performance hacks (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/personal-productivity/0...) by Ron Hale-Evans, and his web site (http://www.ludism.org/mentat).
