50 Brilliant Ways to Hack Your Own Brain

May 31st, 2010

Have you ever thought about how far you can take your brain? It turns out, you can take it pretty far! Here, we’ll talk a look at 50 of the ways you can stretch out a little more brain power.

Health

A healthy body helps support a healthy brain.

1. Hydrate: Drink two glasses of water to feel more alert than coffee can.
2. Avoid binge drinking: Moderate drinking may actually help your memory, but once you go beyond about one drink each day, your memory and reaction time will decline.
3. Sleep: Get enough sleep to help support your brain function.
4. Avoid bad fat: Saturated and trans fat can reduce blood flow all over your body, and especially your brain.
5. Do yoga: Try certain yoga poses to make more blood flow to your brain.
6. Eat herbs: Certain herbs like gingko biloba and ginseng can improve your cognitive abilities.
7. Eat brain food: Eat protein, vitamins, and minerals to improve your brain function.
8. Take certain drugs: Certain drugs can help boost your brain output.
9. Have sex: Have sex to improve blood flow to your brain.
10. Exercise: Exercise to bring more blood and oxygen to your brain.
11. Take fish oil: Fish oil will help keep your brain lubed.

Brain Power

These handy little hacks will give your brain power the boost it needs.

12. Avoid panic: Intense stress can kill your memory and brain function.
13. Avoid wasting time: Declutter your brain and make everything as simple as possible to make your brain perform at its best.
14. Practice repetitive mental stimulation: Take things a step farther when you’re gardening, sewing, or playing cards.
15. Find stimulation: Listen to music, or engage your senses in another way to stimulate your brain.
16. Move your eyes: If you move your eyes from side to side for 30 seconds, you can improve brain hemisphere communication.
17. Laugh: Laughter is a great medicine as well as brain food-it stimulates both sides of your brain simultaneously.
18. Caffeinate in small doses: Take regular coffee breaks throughout the day and drink just a bit at a time.
19. Play games: Word games and puzzles can help improve your mental cognitive abilities.
20. Listen to new music: Give your ears stimulation with music you haven’t heard before.
21. Take time to play: Play cards, video games, and board games to help your brain think strategically.
22. Use high ceilings: Rooms with high ceilings may help you think better.
23. Concentrate: Identify your distractions, and find ways to zap them, such as putting them on a to do list or taking care of them before you delve into the task at hand.

Learning & Memory

Hack the way you learn and remember here.

24. Practice repetition: Learn and relearn by practicing repetition.
25. Remember what you’ve done: It’s easy to forget tasks like locking the front door – speak out loud "locking the front door," as you do it to remember it.
26. Use hand written notes: Retain information better with the use of hand written notes.
27. Slow down for comprehension: Don’t try to speed read, and you will understand better.
28. Retrace your steps: If you’ve forgotten what you went into a room to do, walk back to where you were when you first thought of it.
29. Distract yourself: Study information that is slightly different to get your brain to work harder to permanently store what you’re trying to learn.
30. Have a conversation: Talking to others can improve your memory and testing greatly.
31. Spend time with memories: Let your mind reflect on memories, and it will better support you in current tasks and challenges.
32. Learn in your sleep: Simply sleep after studying, and you’ll remember better.
33. Find out how you learn: Look into learning styles to see if you’re a visual, auditory, or kinetic learner.
34. Think positively: Strengthen your brain by thinking positively about learning.
35. Learn something new: Learn a foreign language, recipe, or anything else to turn on your brain’s sense of discovery.
36. Embrace chaos: Learn information in randomly ordered chunks for better recall.
37. Make associations: Remember facts by forming associations, even multiple ones.

Tricks

These are some neat little tricks you can perform with your brain.

38. Hallucination: This hack explains how you can hallucinate without drugs.
39. Modify brain waves: You can modify your brain waves by listening to sounds that mimic those waves.

Sleep

These hacks will help you sleep better at night.

40. Power naps: Sleep a little bit at a time to extend your waking life.
41. Read before bed: Non-fiction can help ease your brain into sleeping.
42. Control your dreams: Keep a dream journal and think about what you want to dream of before you fall asleep.
43. Eat a snack before bed: Eat a low sugar, low calorie snack before you go to bed so that your brain won’t be tired when you wake up.
44. Think happy thoughts: Eliminate stressful influences by thinking happy.

Intelligence

Use these hacks for an intelligence boost.

45. Think like a child: Get in touch with your inner child to free your mind of inhibitions.
46. Watch good TV: Watch a quiz show like Jeopardy to stimulate your brain.
47. Follow your curiosity: Make your brain happy by allowing it to be curious.
48. Be creative: Take up a creative hobby to teach your brain to find new solutions and expand your awareness.
49. Surf the Internet: Searching the Internet can stimulate certain parts of your brain.
50. Take up juggling: Juggling can alter your brain structure in a good way.

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