Table of Contents
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 Memory 1
Hack 1: Remember to Remember 1
Hack 2: Build a Memory Dungeon 6
Hack 3: Mix Up Your Facts 10
Hack 4: Space Your Repetitions 14
Hack 5: Recall Long-Ago Events 18
Chapter 2 Learning 25
Hack 6: Establish Your Canon 25
Hack 7: Write in Your Books 32
Hack 8: Read at Speed 44
Hack 9: Learn by Teaching 49
Hack 10: Play the Learning Game 52
Hack 11: Pretend You’re a Grad Student 55
Hack 12: Study Kid Stuff 59
Chapter 3 Information Processing 63
Hack 13: Polyspecialize 63
Hack 14: Integrate Your Interests 67
Hack 15: Sift Your Ideas 72
Hack 16: Ask the Hive Mind 77
Hack 17: Write Magnifi cent Notes 83
Chapter 4 Time Management 95
Hack 18: Keep a Mental Datebook 95
Hack 19: Tell Time Who’s Boss 99
Hack 20: Meet MET 106
Hack 21: Get Control of Yourself 111
Hack 22: Locate Lost Items 121
Hack 23: Huffman-Code Your Life 126
Hack 24: Knock Off Work 129
Chapter 5 Creativity and Productivity 135
Hack 25: Manifest Yourself 135
Hack 26: Woo the Muse of the Odd 138
Hack 27: Seek Bad Examples 143
Hack 28: Turn a Job into a Game 148
Hack 29: Scrumble for Glory 160
Hack 30: Salvage a Vintage Hack 167
Hack 31: Mine the Future 174
Hack 32: Dare to Do No Permanent Damage 179
Hack 33: Make Happy Mistakes 182
Hack 34: Don’t Know What You’re Doing 187
Hack 35: Ratchet 195
Chapter 6 Math and Logic 199
Hack 36: Roll the Mental Dice 200
Hack 37: Abduct Your Conclusions 204
Hack 38: Think Clearly about Simple Errors 209
Hack 39: Notate Personally 215
Hack 40: Notate Wisely 218
Hack 41: Engineer Your Results 223
Hack 42: Enter the Third Dimension 233
Hack 43: Enter the Fourth Dimension 239
Chapter 7 Communication 263
Hack 44: Spell It Out 264
Hack 45: Read Lips 271
Hack 46: Emote Precisely 275
Hack 47: Streamline Your Shorthand 283
Hack 48: Communicate Multimodally 287
Hack 49: Mediate Your Environment 291
Chapter 8 Mental Fitness 299
Hack 50: Acquire a Taste 300
Hack 51: Try Something New Daily 305
Hack 52: Metabehave Yourself 308
Hack 53: Train Your Fluid Intelligence 315
Hack 54: Think, Try, Learn 321
Hack 55: Take the One-Question IQ Test 331
Chapter 9 Clarity 335
Hack 56: Cultivate Beginner’s Mind 336
Hack 57: Take a Semantic Pause 340
Hack 58: Retreat and Reboot 350
Hack 59: Get Used to Losing 355
Hack 60: Trust Your Intelligence (and Everyone Else’s) 359
Appendix A The Unboxed Games Manifesto 367
Appendix B 3D Visualization 369
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