Articles in the Mental Performance Category
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Do you often find yourself forgetting where you left your keys or struggling to remember important dates? If so, you’re not alone, as many people have trouble with both short-term and long-term memory issues. This problem is so widespread that there are many methods available that aim to help you improve your memory. In this article we’ll take a look at one of the most powerful yet little known of these, which is using binaural beats (and other forms of brainwave entrainment) to boost your memory Power.
What Are Binaural Beats …
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By Brandon C. Hall
One of the most fascinating things about watching someone speed reading is the rate at which their hand glosses over the material they are reading. It moves so quickly and for the average reader, it seems as though it’s moving much too fast for the person to be absorbing any part of the text.
If you’ve always read at a natural speed, it might seem impossible to imagine that you could read several times faster. It might also seem unbelievable that you can adopt the principles behind speed …
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By Brandon C. Hall
If you’ve ever been witness to someone speed reading the sight can be remarkable. They turn the pages of a book at breakneck speed and often their hand is skimming the length of the pages very quickly. It’s difficult to imagine that they are absorbing everything that they are reading. After all, a person reading at normal speed can sometimes even have trouble remembering what they just read. However, it is possible to read and retain all of the information in a book or magazine even when …
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By Brandon C. Hall
Speed reading is not just a parlor trick you can use to impress your friends and family. For many it’s a necessary tool for managing time and information in the fast-paced business world, and for many others, specifically students, it’s the only way to get through reading-heavy class loads.
The practiced speed reader can pick up a lengthy document or a thick stack of papers and use their skill to get at the meat of the subject by skimming for the most important details and information. Without developing …
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By Steven Gillman
Try some of these ten ways to clearer thinking. Make one or two of them a habit, and you’ll have more brainpower permanently.
Does your mind sometimes feel like a television station you can’t quite tune in? You know there’s an interesting program on – or several, but everything is mixed with static. What if you could “tune in” at will, have clear thinking whenever you want it? Try some of the following.
Ten Clear Thinking Techniques And Tips
1. Take a walk. Science will eventually prove this …
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By Steven Gillman
A definition or two of lateral thinking and a few lateral thinking puzzles.
What exactly is lateral thinking? For starters, it’s a word invented by Edward DeBono in 1967. At some point since then it became a part of the English language (it is in the Oxford English Dictionary and most others now). DeBono, on his official web site, says there are several ways to define it.
Lateral thinking is a way of attacking problems from other angles, as opposed to the more traditional linear and logical ways. DeBono uses …


