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Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)
by Ron Hale-Evans
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Help With Clear Thinking Is Essential Now
  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... more info

• 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 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... more info

• 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!

• 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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