Although you can use your mouse to access certain functions for your computer work, you can also use the keyboard to make shortcuts. This way, you can get more work done faster.
Similarly, you can treat your brain as a biocomputer, discover how it processes information, and develop mental shortcuts.
Using mental shortcuts, like using shortcuts on your keyboard, will help you to process information much more rapidly and much more efficiently. You can get more work done faster.
Information about how the brain works comes from experiments and observations made by neuroscientists about how the brain processes or fails to process information.
Using the four brain hacks on this page is a great way to start learning about brain hacks.
Incidentally, a "hack" is computer jargon for a way to change or extend the functionality of a program by editing the underlying code. Hacks are often used to achieve a specific change when a plugin is not yet available.
Mind Power Hack #1: Your brain does not like linear scripts
Your brain is made up of a network of neurons. If you read something or write out lines of notes, your brain does not process linear script very well--because it seeks relationships between concepts; moreover,it prefers images to words. It regards images and feelings as primary; words and logic as secondary.
Processing linear scripts creates fractured montages, isolated patches of knowledge. Sometimes, too, you just get confused. Often, you quickly forget what little information you did learn.
Mind mapping takes advantage of the curvilinear nature of brain-processing.
Recognizing this, Tony Buzan, invented Mind Maps.
Using a Mind Map increases your comprehension dramatically.
Watch this video to learn how to do a Mind Map.
Mind Power Hack #2: Your brain can't figure out the truth of facts
Your brain can’t tell if something is true or not.
We do not have any facts about anything. What we have are opinions.
We also decide that our opinion is true based on our rationalizations.
We base our belief on an argument for something. This argument, in turn, is based on an appeal to authority, scientific evidence, personal or vicarious experience, or tradition.
Since your mind can’t tell if something is true, you can choose to give it something that you want to make true.
For example, assume you need more money. Currently, your bank account shows a rather low sum. Keep imagining that you have ten times that amount in your bank account.
Now, your subconscious mind will go to work on this issue. It will comb all its data banks to find a way to make your belief true. Out of nowhere you will either attract an idea or an opportunity that will make it possible for you to have that ten-fold increase.
Mind Power Hack #3: Your brain does not recognize a negative
Your brain does not hear negative words. It does not comprehend the words, "no, not, never."
Since it can only process positive words, it literally skips over the negative word.
Say, you want to lose weight.
You will gain weight if you affirm, “I do not want to be fat.”
It will hear “fat.”
What will you get more of now?
Yes, that’s right!
Instead, choose the opposite and affirm it. Say, “I want to be skinny.” It will hear “skinny.” Now your brain will go to work on finding ways to help you lose weight and get skinny.
Mind Power Hack #4: Your brain does not like unknowns
If you do not know the answer to a question important to you, your brain will find it intolerable. It will go around in circles obsessing over what the answer might be.
Ask yourself a question that is important. The more important it is to you, the better it will work.
For example, ask, "How can I improve my life today?"
Now resist the urge to go over what is wrong in your life and figure out how to fix it.
Instead...after you have asked the question, let it go.
Yes, do not deliberately try to answer it. Instead let it go. This moves all your brain processing to the subconscious mind.
When you are least expecting it, the answer will show up and dazzle you; it will be an answer that is perfect for you and your situation.
Trying to answer the question from the conscious mind produces only superficial answers. However, you will get great insights if you let the question "steep."
Discover More Mind Power Brain Hacks
Below are more ways to optimize your brain. I'll keep adding more brain hacks as I come across them. And if you have any that you know about please write me using the contact us form. If I can prove they work, I'll publish them here--giving you full credit, of course.
