User:Conservative/Cognitive performance
Personal development skill sets etc
Contents
[hide]- 1 Accelerated learning
- 2 Memory improvement
- 3 Increasing concentration
- 4 Thou shall think clearly and creatively. Thou shall not commit logical fallacies.
- 5 Creative thinking tools
- 6 Learning faster and remembering more
- 7 Problem solving
- 8 Strategic thinking
- 9 Dunning-Kruger effect
- 10 Reading comprehension improvement
- 11 What is intelligence
- 12 Difference between smart and brilliant/wise people
- 13 Habits of intelligent people
- 14 Intelligence and memory
- 15 Signs/traits of intelligence
- 16 IQ and general success in life
- 17 Brain health and mental performance
- 18 Chess and increasing intelligence
- 19 References
Accelerated learning
Accelerated learning videos
- Accelerated learning - playlist 2 (another person created this, some duplicate)
Accelerated learning and foreign languages
Accelerated learning and coding
Accelerated learning course
Jim Kwik - memory coach and accelerated learning
Reviews of the book Limitless:
- Limitless by Jim Kwik: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, And Unlock Your Exceptional Life
- Book Review: Limitless by Jim Kwik
- Book Review | Limitless - Jim Kwik
Learning faster and retaining more (includes Kindle books)
Memory improvement
See also: Mnemonic
Resources:
World memory champion statistics
Articles:
Findings:
- The top participants of the annual World Memory Championships regularly demonstrate the ability to memorize hundreds of words, digits, or other abstract information units within minutes.
- Of the 23 athletes, 17 participated in a word learning task under fMRI conditions where they demonstrated their superior memory abilities compared to controls (70.8 ± 0.6 versus 39.9 ± 3.6 of 72 words correctly recalled 20 min after encoding; median, 72 versus 41; Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.001, r = 0.62).
- Brain changes: "Memory skills strongly differ across the general population; however, little is known about the brain characteristics supporting superior memory performance. Here we assess functional brain network organization of 23 of the world’s most successful memory athletes and matched controls with fMRI during both task-free resting state baseline and active memory encoding. We demonstrate that, in a group of naive controls, functional connectivity changes induced by 6 weeks of mnemonic training were correlated with the network organization that distinguishes athletes from controls."
- True to their name, the memory champions missed only two words on average when recalling the list 20 minutes later, whereas their controls missed nearly half.
Increasing concentration
- Increasing concentration - 11 exercises
- Increasing concentration
- Increase your attention span - Psychology Today
- Managing concentration
- 3 ways to increase your attention span - Wikihow
- 12 ways to improve concentration - Psychology Today
- The software Neuroracer increases attention span
- Improving attention span - LifeHacker
- 4 proven tricks to improve concentration - Huffington Post
Thou shall think clearly and creatively. Thou shall not commit logical fallacies.
Favorite book on critical thinking
- The Thinker's Way by John Chaffee, Ph.D., Little, Brown and Company; First Edition (October 1, 1998)
Favorite website dealing with thinking, critical thinking and logical fallacies
Logical fallacies
Creativity
- Creativity and innovation websites
- Creative thinking tools
- Creativity
- Brainstorming wallposter
- Books on creativity
Cognitive distortions/biases
Creative thinking tools
Idea generation
2. Ideation: Brainstorming & Sketching
3. Thought Showers: Group Problem Solving
4. Write a list of 101 ideas. Open your word processor and write a laundry list of at least 101 ideas to deal with your situation. Go wild and write whatever you can think of without restricting yourself. Do not stop until you have at least 101 (Source: 25 Useful Brainstorming Techniques).
5. Mindmap
6. The Meta Sequence
"Deep (Research & Define) - The more information you expose yourself to, the more your brain has to work with. Deep dive before an ideation session and define the objective.
Wide (Creative & Divergent) - Try to minimise critical evaluation while brainstorming and exploring new ideas. Creative insights are helped by a mindset of playful curiosity.
Narrow (Critical & Convergent) - Use objective evaluation criteria where possible. The best ideas are vulnerable as they don’t conform to expectations; so don’t use critical analysis to leave only the safest ideas standing, but to find out which challenging ideas might actually be viable.
Up (Synthesise & Iterate) - Once you have an idea that works, it’s tempting to cling to it. However, the best ideas often come from having the curiosity and courage to push beyond what works to something more interesting. Keep playing to find a deeper synthesis."[1]
7. Wiktionary: Use random stimuli like reading out words from the dictionary to provoke a response, or try using the last letter of one word as the starting letter for another word. Use Free-association to generate words and concepts to spark connections.[2]
8. Mind map Write your objective in a bubble in the middle of a page and branch out nested and associated ideas to uncover new perspectives as stimuli. Try putting your mind map on the wall while brainstorming.[3]
9. Meta-sequence
Deep - Research / Define The greater the amount of informationo one exposes oneself to, the more the mind has to work with… Deep dive before an idea generation session and define the objective.
Wide - Creative / Divergent Try to minimize critical evaluation while brainstorming and instead explore new ideas. Creative insights are aided by a mindset of playful curiosity.
Narrow - Critical / Convergent Use objective evaluation criteria when possible. The best ideas are vulnerable as they don’t conform to expectations; so don’t use critical analysis to leave the safest ideas still standing, but to find out which challenging ideas may actually be viable.
Up - Synthesize / Iterate Once you discover an idea that works, it’s tempting to cling to it too tightly. However, the best ideas frequently come from having the curiosity and moral courage to push beyond what works to something that is more interesting and promising. Keep playing to find a deeper synthesis.[4]
Persepective shifts
1. Inversion
2. Another's shoes
3. Recontext
4. No limits
5. Extremify
6. Challenge
Learning faster and remembering more
Problem solving
Ray Dalios 5 steps to success (problem solving included):
Articles:
- Problem solving skills
- Non-linear problem solving
- Systems thinking
- Overview of systems thinking
- Problem Solving With Six Sigma Root Cause Analysis
- Systems Thinking and Systems Tools
- Enhancing the Six Sigma problem-solving methodology using the systems thinking methodologies
- Systems and complexity thinking
- From “solution” to “contextualized solution systems”
- Systems thinking applied to business
- TRIZ
- Lateral thinking
Systems thinking:
George Polya's 4 steps to problem solving:
- How to solve it - overview by George Polya
VUCA:
Problem solving Videos
General problem solving:
- Problem Solving Ideas That Work
- How to become a better problem solver
- Problem Solving Using the Why Tree By Creative Safety Supply
Mind mapping:
- Freemind documentation
- Mindmeister
- Mindmeister - Chrome store - Works with Google drive
- Mind mapping - Tony Buzan
- How to make a mind map - version 1
- How to make a mind map - version 2
- How to make a mind map the basics
- FreeMind - Free mind mapping software
- Mind mapping by Tony Buzan
- FreeMind tutorial
Lateral thinking:
- Dr. Edward de Bono discusses Lateral Thinking
- Lateral thinking
- Linear vs. Lateral Thinking - Team 49 Lateral thinking
Creative problem solving:
Vuca:
Forecasting:
Multiple strategies
Creativity / Innovation
- Creativity - playlist
- What is creativity - Brian Tracy
- Guide to creative thinking by Brian Tracy
- Unlocking creativity by Brian Tracy
- Creativity - Buffalo State College lectures (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 1
- Buffalo State College- (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 2
- Buffalo State College- (International Center for Studies in Creativity) - Playlist 3
- SUNY Buffalo State Selects SparcIt’s Automated Creativity Assessment Tool for its Upcoming MOOC on Creativity
- Ignite your creativity
- Creative thinking skills - slides
- What kind of creative thinker are you? - a test
- Creative thinking - Tony Yoo slides
- Bono - 6 thinking hats
- Lateral thinking - Bono
International Center for Studies in Creativity:
- International Center for Studies in Creativity - videos
- International Center for Studies in Creativity - History
- Creativity 101
- Disecting creativity
- Alumni videos
- Founder talks
Now here:
CNN - Next, innovation:
Innovation articles:
Ray Dalio: Be radically open-minded:
- Ray Dalio: Open-Mindedness And The Power of Not Knowing
- Principles for Success “Be Radically Open-Minded”
Books on creativity:
Strategic thinking
Personal strategic plan
General:
- Personal strategic plan - slideshare overview
Creating a personal strategic plan:
Personal balance assessment:
Personal strategic plan: workbooks, checklists, etc.:
Strategic and tactical thinking
- Principles of war
- Principles of warfare
- How to respond to opposition's tactics
- A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind
- Strategic thinking quotes
- Strategic thinking playlist
- Strategy and tactics
- The 33 Strategies of War
- 33 war strategies
- 4rth generation warfare
- War strategies and tactics - playlist
- 10 battlefield tactics
- Defense in depth
- Maneuver warfare
- Indirect approach
- The Indirect Approach by B. H. Liddell Hart
- List of military strategies and concepts
- List of military tactics
- Logistics
Sun Tzu:
- Sun Tzu quotes
- Sun Tzu quotes
- Offensive Strategy - Sun Tzu's Art of War #3 - Revisited
- The best lessons from 'Art of War
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Complete Audiobook, Unabridged)
- Art of War, Sun Tzu - audiobook
- Art of War - video
- Art of War
- 6 principles of Sun Tzu
- Favorite Sun Tzu quotes
- Choosing tasks/goals based on ultimate objectives
George Washington:
"Washington’s true genius as a military leader was his refusal to give up. He was also very much inclined as a leader to listen to the other military leaders around him. Invariably, he adopted the consensus of opinion reached by his military advisers in making his decisions. Unlike flashier generals, Washington was always able to maintain a steady demeanor and, most importantly, keep his army in being. A lesser general would have risked all for a spectacular but non-decisive victory against the British. As a leader who valued winning the war more than winning individual battles, Washington knew well that time was on his side given the realities of geography and the larger geopolitical situation." - Command and Control, Great Military Leaders from Washington to the 21st Century by Mark R. Polelle
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington
Sun Tzu and marketing:
- Sun Tzu principles applied to marketing
- Sun Tzu and digital marketing
- Sun Tzu and digital marketing - part 2
Sun Tzu and business:
Communication, marketing and PR
Dunning-Kruger effect
Reading comprehension improvement
Reading comprehension strategies
- 6 strategies for greater reading comprehension by Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Visualization:
Strategic reading:
General books/DVDs:
- Strategic Reading: Guiding Students to Lifelong Literacy by Tanya Baker, Julie Dube Hackett, Jeffrey D Wilhelm
Reading comprehension assessment and strategies
Metacognition strategies
- Instruction of Metacognitive Strategies Enhances Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Achievement - Foreign languages, etc.
What is intelligence
What is IQ or intelligence?
When we use the term intelligence, we usually refer to academic or cognitive intelligence. Cognitive ability is defined as the mental capacity to do the following:
- Storing and retrieving information
- Problem-solving
- Reading
- Abstract thinking
- Reasoning
- Complex idea thinking
- Planning
- Learning from experience[5]
Difference between smart and brilliant/wise people
- Difference between smart and brilliant/wise people (Mixed bag of truth/error)
- 14 Signs of High Intelligence
Habits of intelligent people
Intelligence and memory
Signs/traits of intelligence
IQ and general success in life
“After surveying over a thousand rich folk in The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley tells us that the typical millionaire had an average GPA and frugal spending habits — but good interpersonal skills.” - Entertainment Weekly
Higher IQ and its effect on your life:
- Success: Grit/cognitive control vs. IQ, Daniel Goleman citing Gladwell and other data, 2014
- How IQ Affects Your Life , Business Insider, 2011
- Yes, IQ matters, Slate, 2014
Boosting IQ
Problems that can occur with someone with a very high IQ in terms of social ability
Books
Curse of the High IQ:
Book reviews:
- Curse of the High IQ - Medium book review
- Curse of the High IQ - Book review by Aaron Clarey
Videos
- The Curse Of The Gifted (w/Dr. Blair Duddy) | The Challenges Of High IQ Children
- You're Not Mentally Ill, You're Just Intelligent
- The Sad Story of the Smartest Man Who Ever Lived (The world's smartest man's parents didn't buy toys for him as a child, but did more mentally stimulating and challenging things instead with him: The Sad Story of the Smartest Man Who Ever Lived. They attribute his very high IQ to largely being nurture and not nature.).
Brain health and mental performance
See also: Academic performance and nutrition
IQ and reaction times and longevity and mood:
Apps:
IQ and fitness:
- Simplest way to boost your mental performance
- Young Adults Who Exercise Get Higher IQ Scores
- Does Aerobic exercise increase IQ - LiveStrong.com
- More exercise = More IQ?
IQ and Omega 3 blood levels:
Combined effects of Omega 3 and exercise:
Salmon and sardines trump fish oil:
Mercury levels and fish:
Vegetable sources of DHA:
Brain nutrition:
Brain exercises
Brain workouts - better than coffee!:
BrainHQ (most heavily researched to show benefits)
Cognifit:
Cogmed:
Neuroplus:
Mindset:
3 Brain Control Device to Focus Invention Ideas you MUST have
12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences:
12 cognitive tasks from Cambridge Brain Sciences
Others:
Fun mental workout software:
Brain health - brain exercises - free online tests
Stroop test online:
Brain health and supernatural healing
Brain and mental performance
Chess and increasing intelligence
See also: Chess and increasing mental performance
Chess presents interesting intellectual challenges. It is said that: "Chess has an advantage over most school subjects: it combines both theory and practice. Ideas are honed and tested in the crucible of competitive play. Poor formulation or poor execution of ideas loses games. Careless, faulty thinking is ruthlessly refuted on the chessboard."[6]
According to Healthline.com: "Playing chess can improve cognitive skills like memory, planning, and problem-solving. It may also help reduce symptoms of certain brain conditions.[1]
Some countries, particularly nations like Uzbekistan from the former Soviet Union, promote chess as a fundamental aspect of learning and mental development.
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer and Bible reading: Earlier in life he mentioned that "I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost."[7]
Journal articles on chess and increasing mental performance
- A Study on the Correlation between Intelligence and Body Schema in Children Who Practice Chess at School, Children (Basel). 2022 Apr; 9(4): 477. Published online 2022 Mar 30. doi: 10.3390/children9040477
External links
- Does Chess Make You Smarter?, Wall Street Journal, 2016
- Does Chess Make You Smarter?
- Does chess make you smarter?, Studies that show that playing chess can improve your intelligence and memory.
- How Chess Can Actually Make You Smarter, Chess.com
- Can chess improve your intelligence?
- CHESS Make your IQ higher!, Chess forum
- 6 reasons to learn to play chess: How playing chess can boost your brain power
- Chess Is the Gymnasium of the Mind
- Benefits of Chess
References
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