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| Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (Hacks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ron Hale-evans
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 15445
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 330
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0596101538
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.
EAN: 9780596101534
ASIN: 0596101538
Publication Date: February 6, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Valuable and entertaining January 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a valuable book that is also very entertaining.
The book is a compilation of seventy-five "hacks" designed to help us "overclock" our brains. Catchy! What it means is that the book is a collection of tips and techniques that speed and enhance our mental abilities. And they do.
The tips deal with memory enhancement, perception, decision making, math applications, and general mental fitness. Most of them aren't really new, but all of them are very clearly explained and illustrated with real-world examples. Every tip has citations for further research, a feature that led me to several hours of surprising and useful reading.
This is not a mental fitness system; that is, the author does not expect the reader to adopt and use every one of the tips. It's a loose collection of tools, and like all tools, the trick is to select the appropriate one for the task. I'm using several of the tools on a regular basis, and that more than justifies the cost of the book for me.
Finally, the book is a very entertaining and very quick read. The author's style is just right. The information is presented in easy-to-digest blocks, and the explanations are very clear. The author clearly has expertise, but he's never condescending. The tone is light and slightly self-deprecating without being cutesy.
I really liked this book. It's rare to find such a finely balanced combination of entertainment and utility. I'm very happy I bought it, and I recommend it highly.
 It's a book on trying to improve your brain. December 3, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ever wanted to learn to hack that meatspace computer inside your skull? This book may help you learn how. Ironically, all I remember about the book without cracking the cover is the section on memory improvement.
Pretty good May 22, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is filled with plenty of hacks, although some of them were somewhat useless and uninteresting to me.
The memory hacks are pretty decent, but they don't go into enough detail on how to actually learn to use them. If you figure them out they work incredibly well, though. Some of the fast-math hacks were pretty helpful as well. One of my tops, however, was the hack that shows you how to calculate the weekday of any given day.
Good buy, good as a reference book just to learn something new if you ever need to.
 just not that impressed March 29, 2007
6 out of 18 found this review helpful
I bought this book sort of on a whim, hoping it might be a real gem. I've read some of the Hacks but not all of them. To me, they seem to skirt around the edges of usefulness, implementability, and impact. The strongest points seem like things I've heard elsewhere. I'm going to go back to the book based on all the positive reviews here, but I'm skeptical.
Just what I was looking for. January 14, 2007
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Focus on getting your mind expanding/growing. A great and highly useful set of tools, perspectives on maximizing your mental abilties. Wonderfully written, precise, Although I have been a software developer for 27 years, the Perls scripts are not essential for the non-developer type. Great for those of us heading into the 60+ years bracket. Got to be worth the bucks. Lots of great hacks. Buy it.
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