From Wired: "Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower." Here are a few of the tips. Take a look at all 12 by clicking over to the article.
1) Max Your Mind's Performance by Distracting Yourself
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Desperate to memorize a crucial fact?. . .The trick is to distract yourself by studying stuff that's slightly different from whatever you're trying to learn. Your brain will then work harder to permanently store the original information.
4) Think Positive, and You Will Get Smarter
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Learning new things actually strengthens your brain — especially when you believe you can learn new things. It's a virtuous circle: When you think you're getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ... smarter. This effect shows up consistently among experimental subjects, from seventh graders to college students to businesspeople.
7) Thalamus, Cortex, Amygdala ... Pick Apart the Brain
Clever graphic to help you learn about the parts of your brain and their functions
8) Embracing Chaos Could Bring Order to Your Memory
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One way to learn Better: Mix yourself up. That's advice from Robert Bjork, chair of UCLA's psychology department and a leading expert in memory and learning. Volunteers in his experiments exhibited superior recall when they learned information in randomly ordered chunks.
11) Up Your Intelligence by Choosing Your Exercise Wisely
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Can exercise make you think better? In some cases, yes. Here's what works best.
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