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14 June 2009: Tables and line breaks have been fixed, along with some minor annoyances, improving post-migration usability.

17 June 2009: Broken links continue to be fixed. More importantly, by popular demand, this wiki's license has changed from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, according to the terms of the former license (version 1.3).

Mentat Wiki

This wiki is a collaborative environment for exploring ways to become a better thinker. Topics that can be explored here include MemoryTechniques, MentalMath, CriticalThinking, BrainStorming, ShorthandSystems, NotebookSystems, and SmartDrugs. Other relevant topics are also welcome. How have you made yourself smarter ?

Wiki Topics

MindPerformanceHacks - The support page for the 2006 book of the same name by RonHaleEvans.

Easily memorize complex information - MemoryTechnique

• Tips: LinkQuickly, NookAndCrannyMethod
• Links: MemoryCourses, MemoryWebSites
• 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: NumbersNear?10, NumbersNear?100, 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
• BioFeedback

Think better

• CreativeThinking
• CriticalThinking
• ToolMapping: problem solving

Other pages

• ShorthandSystem: write smarter, not harder
• DateCode: write and store calendar dates compactly
• TheNameMentat comes from Frank Herbert's "Dune" novels.
• HowToForget
• 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

What is a Wiki?

A wiki is a web site built collaboratively by a community of users. Anyone can edit a wiki. This means you!

Feel free to add your own content to this wiki. Anything related to mental improvement is fair game. Here are some pages to help you get started.

• What is a wiki?
• Wiki social norms
• Creole, the main markup language used on this wiki.
• Moin, a secondary markup language we inherited from an earlier version of this wiki.
• SandBox: If you're just experimenting, please do it here.
• Index of all pages

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