Help You Think Faster: Collection By Crazy Items

Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, enhance work power, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential with a scope of full of zeal.

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

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These all thinking/ideas for enhancing our work/peace of mind are collected by Our Founder Azim Uddin.