Wherever we are, what we do, we always use one of our main instruments – the mind. Our life and our success is largely dependent on how much we have developed the mind, and how well we can use them. These tips can help you develop your mental capacity, with the condition to begin to fulfill them. You do not need to try to imagine all at once, better start with those you like best.
Tips:
1. Solve mysteries and puzzles.
2. Cultivate ambidexterity (the ability to equally good command of the right and left hand). Try brushing your teeth, comb your hair, to manipulate the computer mouse with your non-primary hand. Write with both hands simultaneously. Change hands during the meal when using a knife and fork.
3. Work with ambiguity and uncertainty. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes.
4. Learn intelligence card.
5. Lock one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, and stop your ears for a while with tampons, take a shower with your eyes closed.
6. Develop a comparative taste. Learn to feel fully, to savor the wine, chocolate, beer, cheese and anything else.
7. Look for the area of intersection between seemingly unrelated things.
8. Learn how to use keyboards with different key layout (learn touch-type).
9. Invent new uses for common objects. How many different ways you can think of, for example, a nail? Ten? A hundred?
10. Modify your most cherished notions to the contrary.
11. Learn techniques of creativity.
12. Do not settle for the obvious, direct thoughts on the first “correct” answer to the question.
13. Change the established order of things. Ask yourself the question “What if? ..”
14. Jog!
15. Turn the pictures upside-down.
16. Develop critical thinking. Refute common misconceptions.
17. Study logic. Solve logic puzzles.
18. Examine the scientific way of thinking.
19. Draw, draw automatically. You do not need to be for this an artist.
20. Think positively.
21. Take some kind of art – sculpture, painting, music – or try yourself in any other work.
22. Learn the art of stunt, develop dexterity.
23. Eat foods that are useful for the brain.
24. Strive to ensure that the constantly experience a slight feeling of hunger.
25. Exercise!
26. Sit up straight.
27. Drink plenty of water.
28. Breathe deeply.
29. Laugh!
30. Diversify activities. Choose your passion, hobby.
31. Take care of good sleep.
32. Practice a short nap.
33. Listen to music (not that anyhow, please note!).
34. Declare war on your penchant for postponement, procrastination.
35. Limit yourself to using technology.
36. Study materials for the study of the brain.
37. Change your clothes. Go barefoot.
38. Improve in the conversations with himself.
39. Be simple!
40. Play chess or other board games.
41. Play games for your mind – Sudoku, crossword puzzles and countless other games at your disposal.
42. Be direct, like children!
43. Play video games.
44. Develop a sense of humor! Write or compose a joke.
45. Make a list of the 100 (note: a technique for generating ideas, finding hidden problems or making decisions).
46. Use the Quota Ideas (Idea Quota) (note: the method of preparation for the day of the preliminary list of ideas).
47. Treat every idea that comes to you. Create a bank of ideas.
48. Let your ideas grow. Go back to each of them at regular intervals.
49. Spend ‘case supervision. “ Try, for example, items in red to celebrate as often as possible during the day. Celebrate a particular brand of car. Choose a theme and focus on it.
50. Keep a diary.
51. Learn foreign languages.
52. Eat at different restaurants – the preference of national restaurants.
53. Learn computer programming.
54. Read long words backwards. !
55. Change your environment – change the location of objects, furniture, moved somewhere else.
56. Write! Write stories, poetry, start a blog.
57. Learn the language of symbols.
58. Learn the art of playing musical instruments.
59. Visit the museums.
60. Study the functioning of the brain.
61. Learn the technique of dynamic reading.
62. Determine your learning style.
63. Learn the method of determining days of the week for any date!
64. Try to assess the feelings intervals.
65. ”The approximate calculation.” What’s more – the leaves in the forests of the Amazon, or neural connections in the brain? (Reply)
66. Be friends with math. Fight the “inability to count.”
67. Build Palaces of Memory.
68. Learn a system of creative thinking for the development of memory.
69. Have sex (sorry, no comment here!).
70. Remember the names of the people.
71. Meditate. Train your concentration and total lack of thought.
72. Watch movies in various genres.
73. Give up TV.
74. Learn to concentrate.
75. Stay in touch with nature.
76. Mentally solve math problems.
77. Refuse to rush.
78. Change the usual speed of different activities.
79. Do only one thing at a time.
80. Cultivate curiosity.
81. Try on a consciousness of others. How would you think other people thought on your site to solve your problem? How would a fool acted in your place?
82. Cultivate a contemplative attitude to the world.
83. Take time for solitude and relaxation.
84. Tune in to continuous learning throughout your lives.
85. Travel abroad. Meet with a way of life of people of other countries.
86. Learn geniuses (Leonardo – is a great company for you!)
87. Create a circle of trusted friends.
88. Look for the rivalry.
89. It is not necessary to communicate only with peers. Surround yourself with people whose outlook is different from yours.
90. Participate in brainstorming sessions!
91. Change the way of planning for the future: short / long-term, collective / individual.
92. Look for the roots of all problems.
93. Collect quotations of famous people.
94. Change the means of communication: use paper instead of computers, voice recording, instead of writing.
95. Read the classics.
96. Practice the art of reading. Effective reading is an art – develop it.
97. Compose a summary of the books.
98. Develop self-awareness.
99. Speak your problems out loud.
100. Describe your feelings in great detail.
101. Use the Braille. Start by counting floors, when you go up the elevator.
102. Get a piece of art that shake you. Stimulate, provoke feelings and thoughts.
103. Use a variety of perfume scents.
104. Mix feelings. What is the weight pink? Sounds like the smell of lavender?
105. Argue! Protect your arguments. Try to take the views of opponents.
106. Use the time-boxing (Note: the method of fixing a certain period of time to complete assignments or group assignments).
107. Make time for brain development.
108. Create a mental sanctuary (note: a place that exists only in your imagination).
109. Be curious!
110. Challenge yourself.
111. Cultivate the art of visualization. Spend it at least 5 minutes a day.
112. Write down your dreams. Get a notebook and the first thing in the morning, or when you wake up, write down dreams.
113. Educate yourself lucid dreaming.
114. Get a dictionary of words interesting. Create your own words.
115. Look for metaphors. Tie both concrete and abstract concepts.
116. Manage stress.
117. Get to know the method of random input. Write out random words from the magazine. Read randomly selected sites.
118. Walk every day different route. Change the street on which you go to work, jog or go back home.
119. Install multiple operating systems on your PC.
120. Build your vocabulary.
121. Accomplish more than expected.
