General 120 Ways To Boost Your Brain Power

[BaljinderS]

Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.

Solve puzzles and brainteasers.
Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.
Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.
Learn mind mapping.
Block one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, wear earplugs, shower with your eyes closed.
Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer, cheese or anything else.
Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics.
Learn to use different keyboard layouts. Try Colemak or Dvorak for a full mind twist!
Find novel uses for common objects. How many different uses can you find for a nail? 10? 100?
Reverse your assumptions.
Learn creativity techniques.
Go beyond the first, ‘right’ answer.
Transpose reality. Ask “What if?” questions.
SCAMPER!
Turn pictures or the desktop wallpaper upside down.
Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies.
Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles.
Get familiar with the scientific method.
Draw. Doodle. You don’t need to be an artist.
Think positive.
Engage in arts — sculpt, paint, play music — or any other artistic endeavor.
Learn to juggle.
Eat ‘brain foods’.
Be slightly hungry.
Exercise!
Sit up straight.
Drink lots of water.
Deep-breathe.
Laugh!
Vary activities. Get a hobby.
Sleep well.
Power nap.
Listen to music.
Conquer procrastination.
Go technology-less.
Look for brain resources in the web.
Change clothes. Go barefoot.
Master self-talk.
Simplify!
Play chess or other board games. Play via Internet (particularly interesting is to play an ongoing game by e-mail).
Play ‘brain’ games. Sudoku, crossword puzzles or countless others.
Be childish!
Play video games.
Be humorous! Write or create a joke.
Create a List of 100.
Have an Idea Quota.
Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank.
Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals.
Engage in ‘theme observation’. Try to spot the color red as many times as possible in a day. Find cars of a particular make. Invent a theme and focus on it.
Keep a journal.
Learn a foreign language.
Eat at different restaurants – ethnic restaurants specially.
Learn how to program a computer.
Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC
Change your environment. Change the placement of objects or furniture — or go somewhere else.
Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog.
Learn sign language.
Learn a musical instrument.
Visit a museum.
Study how the brain works.
Learn to speed-read.
Find out your learning style.
Dump the calendar!
Try to mentally estimate the passage of time.
“Guesstimate”. Are there more leaves in the Amazon rainforest or neuron connections in your brain? (answer).
Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’.
Build a Memory Palace.
Learn a peg system for memory.
Have sex! (sorry, no links for this one! )
Memorize people’s names.
Meditate. Cultivate mindfulness and an empty mind.
Watch movies from different genres.
Turn off the TV.
Improve your concentration.
Get in touch with nature.
Do mental math.
Have a half-speed day.
Change the speed of certain activities. Go either super-slow or super-fast deliberately.
Do one thing at a time.
Be aware of cognitive biases.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it?
Adopt an attitude of contemplation.
Take time for solitude and relaxation.
Commit yourself to lifelong learning.
Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles.
Adopt a genius. (Leonardo is excellent company!)
Have a network of supportive friends.
Get competitive.
Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.
Brainstorm!
Change your perspective. Short/long-term, individual/collective.
Go to the root of the problems.
Collect quotes.
Change the media you’re working on. Use paper instead of the computer; voice recording instead of writing.
Read the classics.
Develop your reading skill. Reading effectively is a skill. Master it.
Summarize books.
Develop self-awareness.
Say your problems out loud.
Describe one experience in painstaking detail.
Learn Braille. You can start learning the floor numbers while going up or down the elevator.
Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways.
Try different perfumes and scents.
Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender scent sound?
Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too.
Use time boxing.
Allocate time for brain development.
Have your own mental sanctuary.
Be curious!
Challenge yourself.
Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day.
Take notes of your dreams. Keep a notebook by your bedside and record your dreams first thing in the morning or as you wake up from them.
Learn to lucid dream.
Keep a lexicon of interesting words. Invent your own words.
Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts.
Manage stress.
Get random input. Write about a random word in a magazine. Read random sites using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia.
Take different routes each day. Change the streets you follow to work, jog or go back home.
Install a different operating system on your computer.
Improve your vocabulary.
Deliver more than what’s expected.

http://litemind.com/boost-brain-power/

 

[Astroboy]

Aren't we already doing em'?

 

[Ambarsaria]

Astroboy ji thanks for your post.

Aren't we already doing em'?

Astroboy ji we perhaps do many but not all. I believe I am doing the following,

Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions; shower with your eyes closed.
Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer, cheese or anything else.
Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics.
Ask “What if?” questions.
Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies.
Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles.
Get familiar with the scientific method.
Eat ‘brain foods’.
Listen to music.
Simplify!
Be childish!
Be humorous! Write or create a joke.
Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank.
Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals.
Learn how to program a computer.
Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC
Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog.
Study how the brain works.
Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’.
Get in touch with nature.
Do mental math.
Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it?
Adopt an attitude of contemplation.
Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles.
Get competitive.
Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.
Brainstorm!
Go to the root of the problems.
Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too.
Be curious!
Challenge yourself.
Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day.
Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts.
Improve your vocabulary.
Deliver more than what’s expected.

So to improve myseld I am going to Pick upto 5 more to do. I believe this would be the way to use the information in the thread.

Sat Sri Akal.

 

[Luckysingh]

I suffer from long term memory loss.
Considering my past, they all tell me it's a good thing!!!

I'll be better off avoiding the above, so If any are applicable, I'll start by counting down and eliminating 5 a time.


Sat Sri Akaal
Lucky Singh

 

[BaljinderS]

I think brain food is lacking in most Sikh families. There is a myth that long as the food fills your stomach then thats OK. I force my family to eat nuts, fruits, vegetables and take vitamins. Don't get me wrong we allot of healthy stuff (pulses,onions,ginger,garlic,chillies,tumeric etc etc), however we destroy the nutrients in the cooking process.

For all those living in the West I don't think they should have a excuse to not eat properly.

There is a big link between physical fitness and mental capability.

 

[Astroboy]

I find almonds, walnuts, pistachios, cashewnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflowerseeds of great benefit. I grind them into powder and add some fillers like oats and cooling items like dried chrysanthemum flowers. I use it as a brain boosting tonic and have been doing it for almost a year now. It's amazing how a little mixture like this can increase my levels of tolerance, patience, focus and attention.

If you don't add fillers you can't grind them into powder because of the high oil content especially in the walnuts and sunflower seeds. I even gave some of this powder to my neighbor for their kids and amazingly they don't scream on the top of their voice as often.

 

[Ambarsaria]

I find almonds, walnuts, pistachios, cashewnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflowerseeds of great benefit. I grind them into powder and add some fillers like oats and cooling items like dried chrysanthemum flowers. I use it as a brain boosting tonic and have been doing it for almost a year now. It's amazing how a little mixture like this can increase my levels of tolerance, patience, focus and attention.

If you don't add fillers you can't grind them into powder because of the high oil content especially in the walnuts and sunflower seeds. I even gave some of this powder to my neighbor for their kids and amazingly they don't scream on the top of their voice as often.

Astroboy ji your mixture recipe appears loaded with calories. Are you sure you are not inadvertently putting neighborhood kids to sleep while they should be out shouting, fighting, laughing, playing mundahug

My preference is daily 10-20 raw almonds. I give couple to our doggy or he kicks my behind ready to bite lol

Sat Sri Akal.