Mentat Trainer
Exploring ways to become a better thinker
Topics
Topics that can be explored here include MemoryTechniques, MentalMath, CriticalThinking, BrainStorming, ShorthandSystems, NotebookSystems, and SmartDrugs. Other relevant topics are also welcome.
Books
Mindhacker: The support page for the 2011 book by Ron Hale Evans and Marty Hale Evans.
MindPerformanceHacks: The support page for the 2006 book of the same name by Ron Hale Evans.
Easily memorize complex information - MemoryTechnique
- Tips: LinkQuickly, NookAndCrannyMethod
- Memory Feats: AlphabetFeats, CalendarFeat, PiMemorisation, KnightsTourMemory, PlayingCardFeats
- Memory Systems: LinkSystem, MemoryPalace, PegSystem, NumberSystems, NumberRhymeSystem, NumberShapeSystem, MajorSystem, DominicSystem, SemCubed, MemoryChart, AlphabetSystems, PlayingCardSystems, BinaryNumbersSystem
- SpacedRepetition, MemoryTraining, MemKata
Do hard math in your head - MentalMath
- Multiplication: NumbersNearMultiplesOfTen, LogarithmTechnique
- Roots and Powers: SquareRoots, SquaringNumbers, CubeRoots, CubingNumbers, FifthRoots
- Feats: KnightsTourMath, MagicSquare
- Approaches: PhysioArithmetics, FlashCard
Improve your intelligence
- ImprovingIntelligence - an overview of possible ways of making people more intelligent
- PhysicalExercise - there is strong evidence that exercise does not just make you stronger and healthier, but smarter too
- BrainTrainingGames - improve mental performance by playing video games
- UseWorkingMemoryEfficiently
- MediTation
- SmartFood, SmartDrug, CoffeeForProductivity
- BioFeedback
Think better
- CreativeThinking
- CriticalThinking
- ToolMapping: problem solving
Other pages
- TheNameMentat comes from Frank Herbert's "Dune" novels.
- ShorthandSystem: write smarter, not harder
- DateCode: write and store calendar dates compactly
- LanguageLearning
- MindMapping
- MentalHealth
- BrainBlogs - blogs to monitor
- BrainBooks - books about the brain and thinking
- MasteringSkills - general principles of how to learn new skills
- MentalWorldRecords
- SelfDiscipline
- ImproveYourSurroundings
- MultiTasking
- HackTheSenses
- MentatTrainingPlan
- GrowthMindset
- SelfTracking
- SpeedReading
- HowToForget