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Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level by Ron Hale-Evans and Marty Hale-Evans (Wiley, 2011)

(amazon.co.uk – 19 Sep)

Book description from the publisher:

Compelling tips and tricks to improve your mental skills

Don’t you wish you were just a little smarter? Ron and Marty Hale-Evans can help with a vast array of witty, practical techniques that tune your brain to peak performance. Founded in current research, Mindhacker features 60 tips, tricks, and games to develop your mental potential. This accessible compilation helps improve memory, accelerate learning, manage time, spark creativity, hone math and logic skills, communicate better, think more clearly, and keep your mind strong and flexible.

Reveals how to expand vocabulary and knowledge with Google, a voice recorder, and an MP3 player set on shuffle
Explains ways to annotate books in useful new ways that customize them to your needs
Uncovers tips for measuring and managing time better with new kinds of clocks and calendars
Details how to roll dice in your head
Teaches you how to avoid common, but potentially costly, errors in thinking
Encourages you to change habits and tastes to spark creativity and make life more interesting

The book explains how each technique works, and then tells how to use it in practical, everyday situations. Train daily with Mindhacker, and you’ll have the mental muscle to work and play like a champion.

Ron Hale-Evans’s previous book is Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (2006).

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