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<p>Introduction xvii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1 Memory 1</b></p> <p>Hack 1: Remember to Remember 1</p> <p>Hack 2: Build a Memory Dungeon 6</p> <p>Hack 3: Mix Up Your Facts 10</p> <p>Hack 4: Space Your Repetitions 14</p> <p>Hack 5: Recall Long-Ago Events 18</p> <p><b>Chapter 2 Learning 25</b></p> <p>Hack 6: Establish Your Canon 25</p> <p>Hack 7: Write in Your Books 32</p> <p>Hack 8: Read at Speed 44</p> <p>Hack 9: Learn by Teaching 49</p> <p>Hack 10: Play the Learning Game 52</p> <p>Hack 11: Pretend You’re a Grad Student 55</p> <p>Hack 12: Study Kid Stuff 59</p> <p><b>Chapter 3 Information Processing 63</b></p> <p>Hack 13: Polyspecialize 63</p> <p>Hack 14: Integrate Your Interests 67</p> <p>Hack 15: Sift Your Ideas 72</p> <p>Hack 16: Ask the Hive Mind 77</p> <p>Hack 17: Write Magnificent Notes 83</p> <p><b>Chapter 4 Time Management 95</b></p> <p>Hack 18: Keep a Mental Datebook 95</p> <p>Hack 19: Tell Time Who’s Boss 99</p> <p>Hack 20: Meet MET 106</p> <p>Hack 21: Get Control of Yourself 111</p> <p>Hack 22: Locate Lost Items 121</p> <p>Hack 23: Huffman-Code Your Life 126</p> <p>Hack 24: Knock Off Work 129</p> <p><b>Chapter 5 Creativity and Productivity 135</b></p> <p>Hack 25: Manifest Yourself 135</p> <p>Hack 26: Woo the Muse of the Odd 138</p> <p>Hack 27: Seek Bad Examples 143</p> <p>Hack 28: Turn a Job into a Game 148</p> <p>Hack 29: Scrumble for Glory 160</p> <p>Hack 30: Salvage a Vintage Hack 167</p> <p>Hack 31: Mine the Future 174</p> <p>Hack 32: Dare to Do No Permanent Damage 179</p> <p>Hack 33: Make Happy Mistakes 182</p> <p>Hack 34: Don’t Know What You’re Doing 187</p> <p>Hack 35: Ratchet 195</p> <p><b>Chapter 6 Math and Logic 199</b></p> <p>Hack 36: Roll the Mental Dice 200</p> <p>Hack 37: Abduct Your Conclusions 204</p> <p>Hack 38: Think Clearly about Simple Errors 209</p> <p>Hack 39: Notate Personally 215</p> <p>Hack 40: Notate Wisely 218</p> <p>Hack 41: Engineer Your Results 223</p> <p>Hack 42: Enter the Third Dimension 233</p> <p>Hack 43: Enter the Fourth Dimension 239</p> <p><b>Chapter 7 Communication 263</b></p> <p>Hack 44: Spell It Out 264</p> <p>Hack 45: Read Lips 271</p> <p>Hack 46: Emote Precisely 275</p> <p>Hack 47: Streamline Your Shorthand 283</p> <p>Hack 48: Communicate Multimodally 287</p> <p>Hack 49: Mediate Your Environment 291</p> <p><b>Chapter 8 Mental Fitness 299</b></p> <p>Hack 50: Acquire a Taste 300</p> <p>Hack 51: Try Something New Daily 305</p> <p>Hack 52: Metabehave Yourself 308</p> <p>Hack 53: Train Your Fluid Intelligence 315</p> <p>Hack 54: Think, Try, Learn 321</p> <p>Hack 55: Take the One-Question IQ Test 331</p> <p><b>Chapter 9 Clarity 335</b></p> <p>Hack 56: Cultivate Beginner’s Mind 336</p> <p>Hack 57: Take a Semantic Pause 340</p> <p>Hack 58: Retreat and Reboot 350</p> <p>Hack 59: Get Used to Losing 355</p> <p>Hack 60: Trust Your Intelligence (and Everyone Else’s) 359</p> <p>Appendix A The Unboxed Games Manifesto 367</p> <p>Appendix B 3D Visualization 369</p> <p>Index 373</p>

<b>Ron Hale-Evans</b> is a writer, game designer, and the creator of the Mentat Wiki, a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker. He has done technical writing for the Free Software Foundation, the Linux Foundation, and Microsoft. <p><b>Marty Hale-Evans</b> is a technical editor who has worked for Microsoft, Boeing, and the University of Chicago Press. An award-winning game designer, she currently chairs a local literary science fiction convention and pursues various creative endeavors.</p>

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