User:Conservative/Cognitive performance

Personal development skill sets etc

Accelerated learning

• Learning faster and remembering more

• Increasing mental performance

• Optimal learning

• Kwik Study Tips For Long-Term Retention

Accelerated learning videos

• SCIENCE OF ACCELERATED LEARNING | HOW TO LEARN FAST | BOOK BY PETER HOLLINS

• Accelerated learning - playlist

• Accelerated learning - playlist 2 (another person created this, some duplicate)

Accelerated learning and foreign languages

• Accelerated learning and foreign languages

Accelerated learning and coding

• Accelerated learning and coding

Accelerated learning course

• The Complete Guide: Become an Accelerated Learner

Jim Kwik - memory coach and accelerated learning

• Limitless Summary and review
• Jim Kwik - memory coach and accelerated learning
• Jim Kwik podcast

Reviews of the book Limitless:

• Limitless by Jim Kwik: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, And Unlock Your Exceptional Life
• Book Review: Limitless by Jim Kwik
• Book Review | Limitless - Jim Kwik

Learning faster and retaining more (includes Kindle books)

• Learning faster and retaining more

Memory improvement

• Learning faster and remembering more
• There Is No Thinking without Memorizing

Resources:

• Grandmasters of memory

• Ron White - memory expert

• Nelson Dellis - memory expert

• Mullen memory

• Mnemonic Strategies

World memory champion statistics

Articles:

• Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory

• Learning mnemonics boosts memory and triggers lasting changes in the brain

Findings:

• The top participants of the annual World Memory Championships regularly demonstrate the ability to memorize hundreds of words, digits, or other abstract information units within minutes.

• Of the 23 athletes, 17 participated in a word learning task under fMRI conditions where they demonstrated their superior memory abilities compared to controls (70.8 ± 0.6 versus 39.9 ± 3.6 of 72 words correctly recalled 20 min after encoding; median, 72 versus 41; Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.001, r = 0.62).

• Brain changes: "Memory skills strongly differ across the general population; however, little is known about the brain characteristics supporting superior memory performance. Here we assess functional brain network organization of 23 of the world’s most successful memory athletes and matched controls with fMRI during both task-free resting state baseline and active memory encoding. We demonstrate that, in a group of naive controls, functional connectivity changes induced by 6 weeks of mnemonic training were correlated with the network organization that distinguishes athletes from controls."

• True to their name, the memory champions missed only two words on average when recalling the list 20 minutes later, whereas their controls missed nearly half.

Increasing concentration

• Increasing concentration - 11 exercises
• Increasing concentration
• Increase your attention span - Psychology Today
• Managing concentration
• 3 ways to increase your attention span - Wikihow
• 12 ways to improve concentration - Psychology Today
• The software Neuroracer increases attention span
• Improving attention span - LifeHacker
• 4 proven tricks to improve concentration - Huffington Post

Thou shall think clearly and creatively. Thou shall not commit logical fallacies.

Aristotle

Socrates

Plato

Favorite book on critical thinking

• The Thinker's Way by John Chaffee, Ph.D., Little, Brown and Company; First Edition (October 1, 1998)

Favorite website dealing with thinking, critical thinking and logical fallacies

• School of thought website

Logical fallacies

• YourLogicalFallacyis.com website

• Fallacy Files website

Creativity

• Creativity and innovation websites
• Creative thinking tools
• Creativity
• Brainstorming wallposter

Cognitive distortions/biases

• 15 common cognitive distortions and examples of each

• Checklist of cognitive distortions

• Cognitive Distortions: 22 Examples & Worksheets (& PDF)

• 50 Common Cognitive Distortions

• Cognitive biases wallposter

Creative thinking tools

• Creatitive thinking tools

Idea generation

1. 10 ideas in 10 minutes

2. Ideation: Brainstorming & Sketching

3. Thought Showers: Group Problem Solving

4. Write a list of 101 ideas. Open your word processor and write a laundry list of at least 101 ideas to deal with your situation. Go wild and write whatever you can think of without restricting yourself. Do not stop until you have at least 101 (Source: 25 Useful Brainstorming Techniques).

5. Mindmap

6. The Meta Sequence

"Deep (Research & Define) - The more information you expose yourself to, the more your brain has to work with. Deep dive before an ideation session and define the objective.

Wide (Creative & Divergent) - Try to minimise critical evaluation while brainstorming and exploring new ideas. Creative insights are helped by a mindset of playful curiosity.

Narrow (Critical & Convergent) - Use objective evaluation criteria where possible. The best ideas are vulnerable as they don’t conform to expectations; so don’t use critical analysis to leave only the safest ideas standing, but to find out which challenging ideas might actually be viable.

Up (Synthesise & Iterate) - Once you have an idea that works, it’s tempting to cling to it. However, the best ideas often come from having the curiosity and courage to push beyond what works to something more interesting. Keep playing to find a deeper synthesis."[1]

7. Wiktionary: Use random stimuli like reading out words from the dictionary to provoke a response, or try using the last letter of one word as the starting letter for another word. Use Free-association to generate words and concepts to spark connections.[2]

8. Mind map Write your objective in a bubble in the middle of a page and branch out nested and associated ideas to uncover new perspectives as stimuli. Try putting your mind map on the wall while brainstorming.[3]

9. Meta-sequence

Deep - Research / Define The greater the amount of informationo one exposes oneself to, the more the mind has to work with… Deep dive before an idea generation session and define the objective.

Wide - Creative / Divergent Try to minimize critical evaluation while brainstorming and instead explore new ideas. Creative insights are aided by a mindset of playful curiosity.

Narrow - Critical / Convergent Use objective evaluation criteria when possible. The best ideas are vulnerable as they don’t conform to expectations; so don’t use critical analysis to leave the safest ideas still standing, but to find out which challenging ideas may actually be viable.

Up - Synthesize / Iterate Once you discover an idea that works, it’s tempting to cling to it too tightly. However, the best ideas frequently come from having the curiosity and moral courage to push beyond what works to something that is more interesting and promising. Keep playing to find a deeper synthesis.[4]

Persepective shifts

1. Inversion

2. Another's shoes

3. Recontext

4. No limits

5. Extremify

6. Challenge

Learning faster and remembering more

• Learning faster and remembering more

IQ and general success in life

• IQ scores and correlation with ACT/SAT/GRE scores

• Free IQ test

• IQ and financial success

“After surveying over a thousand rich folk in The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley tells us that the typical millionaire had an average GPA and frugal spending habits — but good interpersonal skills.” - Entertainment Weekly

Higher IQ and its effect on your life:

• IQ, Motivation, and Success in Life: It’s Less About The Intelligence and More About The Incentives

• Success: Grit/cognitive control vs. IQ, Daniel Goleman citing Gladwell and other data, 2014

• How IQ Affects Your Life , Business Insider, 2011

• Are people with high IQs more successful?

• Yes, IQ matters, Slate, 2014

Boosting IQ

• Your Clever Friends, Intelligent Spouse Can Help Boost Your IQ

Books

• The Curse of the High IQ

Brain health and mental performance

• Learning faster and retaining more

IQ and reaction times and longevity and mood:

• Think Fast: Reaction Time and IQ May Predict Long Life
• Rapid thinking makes people feel happy

Apps:

• ifitness

IQ and fitness:

• Simplest way to boost your mental performance
• Young Adults Who Exercise Get Higher IQ Scores
• Does Aerobic exercise increase IQ - LiveStrong.com
• More exercise = More IQ?

IQ and Omega 3 blood levels:

• Omega 3 blood levels and intelligence and dementia

Combined effects of Omega 3 and exercise:

• Combined effects of Omega 3, curcumin and exercise

Salmon and sardines trump fish oil:

• Salmon and sardines trump fish oil

Mercury levels and fish:

• Safe level of sardines consumption - 3 to 6 servings a week

Vegetable sources of DHA:

• Vegetable sources of DHA
• Flax vs. fish oil pills, EPA and DHA

Brain nutrition:

• Brain food and mental performance

• CBS - Brain nutrition

• Quality of antioxidants and supporting nutritients and not the quantity of antioxidants

• Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory

• Turmeric and brain health

Brain exercises

Brain workouts - better than coffee!:

BrainHQ (most heavily researched to show benefits)

• BrainHQ - World class science

Cognifit:

• Cognifit

• Cognifit -playfit

Cogmed:

• Cogmed

• The Real Data You Should Know About Cogmed For Brain Exercise

Neuroplus:

• Neuroplus

• NeuroPlus: Brain-sensing Headset Improves Focus

Mindset:

• Mindset headphones
• Minset headphones - Kickstarter

3 Brain Control Device to Focus Invention Ideas you MUST have

• 3 Brain Control Device to Focus Invention Ideas you MUST have

12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences:

12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences

Others:

• Brain Metrix

• Lumosity

• Measure Your Brain's Flexibility - Stroop Test- Dr. Ellen Weber

Fun mental workout software:

• Fun mental workout software

• Improving cognitive performance and various intelligence tests

Brain health - brain exercises - free online tests

Stroop test online:

• Stroop test online

Brain health and supernatural healing

• He Had An IQ of 78. Now He Holds 7 Doctorate Degrees!

Brain and mental performance

• Tony Buzan Group

Chess and increasing intelligence

See also: Chess and increasing mental performance

Chess presents interesting intellectual challenges. It is said that: "Chess has an advantage over most school subjects: it combines both theory and practice. Ideas are honed and tested in the crucible of competitive play. Poor formulation or poor execution of ideas loses games. Careless, faulty thinking is ruthlessly refuted on the chessboard."[5]

According to Healthline.com: "Playing chess can improve cognitive skills like memory, planning, and problem-solving. It may also help reduce symptoms of certain brain conditions.

Some countries, particularly nations like Uzbekistan from the former Soviet Union, promote chess as a fundamental aspect of learning and mental development.

Bobby Fischer

• Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer and Bible reading: Earlier in life he mentioned that "I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost."[6]

Bobby Fischer in Amsterdam, Jan. 1, 1972

Bobby Fischer playing chess against Boris Spassky in 1974.

Journal articles on chess and increasing mental performance

• A Study on the Correlation between Intelligence and Body Schema in Children Who Practice Chess at School, Children (Basel). 2022 Apr; 9(4): 477. Published online 2022 Mar 30. doi: 10.3390/children9040477

External links

• Does Chess Make You Smarter?, Wall Street Journal, 2016
• Does Chess Make You Smarter?
• Does chess make you smarter?, Studies that show that playing chess can improve your intelligence and memory.
• How Chess Can Actually Make You Smarter, Chess.com
• Can chess improve your intelligence?
• CHESS Make your IQ higher!, Chess forum