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  <title><![CDATA[Mind Performance Hacks: Tips &amp; Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)]]></title>
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  <default-description>You're smart. This book can make you smarter.    &lt;i&gt;Mind Performance Hacks&lt;/i&gt; 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:    &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;    While the hugely successful &lt;i&gt;Mind Hacks&lt;/i&gt; showed you how your brain works, &lt;i&gt;Mind Performance Hacks&lt;/i&gt; shows you how to make it work better.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">2</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2006</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Mind Performance Hacks: Tips &amp; Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Hale-Evans]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book because it goes straight to the methods or hacks if you will, unlike other books where you have to search for the tricks after wading through long intros and useless chatter. In the memory part of the book he rightly picks Dominic O'Briens method to focus on who I'm a big fan of.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 03 14:49:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have only read one chapter in this book, the one about making a mind map. I had recently done a little bit of research into mind maps since I had found them useful for brainstorming even with only a very vague idea of how to use them. I learned more about them on the internet and what I learned ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16925973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6804530">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 19:45:42 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 04:29:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[on my second run-through of this book. it's not really meant to be read linearly, but is a collection of various ways to play with your head, in the interest of &quot;improving&quot; it. it's got a lot of cog sci in, but it's all perfectly simple to understand - even the math bits! good stuff. i may...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6804530">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some interesting ideas, but few of the tips sounded like they'd give me enough benefit for the effort of implementing them.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu May 28 10:22:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 stars means I liked it; did I find it useful? Maybe not.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[david lynch]]></recommended_for>
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    <body><![CDATA[one gun, two shoe, three tree.  if you want to be able to remember lists of thousands of items and write perl scripts to make something exciting happen in your life (oxymoron?) then i recommend this.]]></body>
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    <review id="110015">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book. A lot of the stuff seems like it's more work to put the application into place then is worth, but there are definitely thing i learned, especially from the creativity section.]]></body>
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    <review id="21194">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a collections of researches and ideas about how to boost up your brain power by analysing its aspects and limitations.<br/>i need someone to push me forward, i can not finish it alone.]]></body>
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    <review id="34807913">
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    <body><![CDATA[Valuable information about human brain's common behavior, ease reading, full of useful tips and tools.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good, more of a book that I reference from time to time.]]></body>
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