Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.

Solve puzzles and brainteasers.

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.

Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.

Learn mind mapping.

Block one or more senses. Eat blindfolded, wear earplugs, shower with your eyes closed.

Develop comparative tasting. Learn to properly taste wine, chocolate, beer, cheese or anything else.

Find intersections between seemingly unrelated topics.

Learn to use different keyboard layouts. Try Colemak or Dvorak for a full mind twist!

Find novel uses for common objects. How many different uses can you find for a nail? 10? 100?

Reverse your assumptions.

Learn creativity techniques.

Go beyond the first, ‘right’ answer.

Transpose reality. Ask “What if?” questions.

SCAMPER!

Turn pictures or the desktop wallpaper upside down.

Become a critical thinker. Learn to spot common fallacies.

Learn logic. Solve logic puzzles.

Get familiar with the scientific method.

Draw. Doodle. You don’t need to be an artist.

Think positive.

Engage in arts — sculpt, paint, play music — or any other artistic endeavor.

Learn to juggle.

Eat ‘brain foods’.

Be slightly hungry.

Exercise!

Sit up straight.

Drink lots of water.

Deep-breathe.

Laugh!

Vary activities. Get a hobby.

Sleep well.

Power nap.

Listen to music.

Conquer procrastination.

Go technology-less.

Look for brain resources in the web.

Change clothes. Go barefoot.

Master self-talk.

Simplify!

Play chess or other board games. Play via Internet (particularly interesting is to play an ongoing game by e-mail).

Play ‘brain’ games. Sudoku, crossword puzzles or countless others.

Be childish!

Play video games.

Be humorous! Write or create a joke.

Create a List of 100.

Have an Idea Quota.

Capture every idea. Keep an idea bank.

Incubate ideas. Let ideas percolate. Return to them at regular intervals.

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.

Keep a journal.

Learn a foreign language.

Eat at different restaurants - ethnic restaurants specially.

Learn how to program a computer.

Spell long words backwards. !gnignellahC

Change your environment. Change the placement of objects or furniture — or go somewhere else.

Write! Write a story, poetry, start a blog.

Learn sign language.

Learn a musical instrument.

Visit a museum.

Study how the brain works.

Learn to speed-read.

Find out your learning style.

Dump the calendar!

Try to mentally estimate the passage of time.

“Guesstimate”. Are there more leaves in the Amazon rainforest or neuron connections in your brain? (answer).

Make friends with math. Fight ‘innumeracy’.

Build a Memory Palace.

Learn a peg system for memory.

Have sex! (sorry, no links for this one!  )

Memorize people’s names.

Meditate. Cultivate mindfulness and an empty mind.

Watch movies from different genres.

Turn off the TV.

Improve your concentration.

Get in touch with nature.

Do mental math.

Have a half-speed day.

Change the speed of certain activities. Go either super-slow or super-fast deliberately.

Do one thing at a time.

Be aware of cognitive biases.

Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. How would different people think or solve your problems? How would a fool tackle it?

Adopt an attitude of contemplation.

Take time for solitude and relaxation.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning.

Travel abroad. Learn about different lifestyles.

Adopt a genius. (Leonardo is excellent company!)

Have a network of supportive friends.

Get competitive.

Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.

Brainstorm!

Change your perspective. Short/long-term, individual/collective.

Go to the root of the problems.

Collect quotes.

Change the media you’re working on. Use paper instead of the computer; voice recording instead of writing.

Read the classics.

Develop your reading skill. Reading effectively is a skill. Master it.

Summarize books.

Develop self-awareness.

Say your problems out loud.

Describe one experience in painstaking detail.

Learn Braille. You can start learning the floor numbers while going up or down the elevator.

Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways.

Try different perfumes and scents.

Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender scent sound?

Debate! Defend an argument. Try taking the opposite side, too.

Use time boxing.

Allocate time for brain development.

Have your own mental sanctuary.

Be curious!

Challenge yourself.

Develop your visualization skills. Use it at least 5 minutes a day.

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.

Learn to lucid dream.

Keep a lexicon of interesting words. Invent your own words.

Find metaphors. Connect abstract and specific concepts.

Manage stress.

Get random input. Write about a random word in a magazine. Read random sites using StumbleUpon or Wikipedia.

Take different routes each day. Change the streets you follow to work, jog or go back home.

Install a different operating system on your computer.

Improve your vocabulary.

Deliver more than what’s expected.

從今天開始，有120種方法有助你更快思考，改善記憶，增強理解力以及釋放大腦所有潛能。
1.猜字謎，做腦筋急轉彎游戲。
2.培養兩手同能。用你的左手刷牙、梳頭或握鼠標。同時用兩只手寫字。兩只手交替握刀叉。

3.包容模棱兩可。學會享受似是而非的事情和幻覺。

4.學習心智圖法。

5.中斷一個或更多感官。蒙著眼睛吃飯、戴耳塞。閉著眼睛洗澡。

6．培養適當品味。學習適當品嘗葡萄酒、巧克力、啤酒、奶酪及其它東西。

7.找出兩個似乎不相關話題間的交集。

8.學習使用不同的鍵盤布局。嘗試Colemak或Dvorak 進行完全頭腦風暴。

9.從普通物體上找出新奇之處。一顆釘子你能找出多少種不同用法呢？是10還是100？

10.反向設想。

11.學習創造性技能。

12.遠離第一個，正確答案。

13.調換現實順序。多問“如果...將會怎樣”。

14.蹦跳。

15.將圖片或桌面壁紙顛倒過來。

16.變成挑剔的思考者。學習認出一般謬論。

17.學習有邏輯性。做邏輯類謎題。

18.了解科學方法．

19.信手圖畫。你不必變成藝術家。

20.積極思考。

21.致身于藝術--雕刻、繪畫、玩音樂--或者其他藝術。

22.學習變戲法。

23.吃健腦食品。

24.保持輕微饑餓感。

25.鍛煉。

26.坐直。

27.大量喝水。

28.深呼吸。

29.大笑。

30.多樣活動。有愛好。

31.睡好。

32.能量盹。

33.聽音樂。

34.戰勝拖延。

35.少量技術．

36.在網頁上尋找智力資源。

37.改變服裝。赤腳走。

38.掌握自我對話。

39.簡單化。

40.下棋或其他棋盤類游戲。通過網絡玩（特別有趣的是通過郵件玩正在進行的游戲）。

41.玩智能游戲。數獨游戲、縱橫字謎及其它。

42.保持童真。

43.玩電子游戲。

44.保持幽默感。寫或創造笑話。

45.創建100列。

46.擁有觀念限額。

47.捕獲每個想法。保持思想庫。

48.深思熟慮。想法都要經過深思。每隔段時間思考一次。

49.從事主題觀察。一天內盡量多的認出紅色。找出特殊制造的汽車。創造一個主題并集中于此。

50.記日記。

51.學習外文。

52.在不同餐館吃飯--特別是民族餐館。

53.學習怎樣計算機編程。

54.從后往前拼寫長的詞。

55.改變環境。改變物體或家具的擺放位置--或者到其他地方去。

56.寫作！寫故事，寫詩，寫博客。

57.學習手語。

58.學習使用樂器。

59.參觀博物館。

60.學習大腦是怎樣工作的。

61.學習速讀。

62.找出你的學習風格。

63.傾倒日歷

64.試著在內心估計時間通道。

65.瞎猜。亞馬遜雨林有更多地樹葉還是你腦袋里有更多的神經元接點？（答案）

66.與數學交朋友。與數學盲抗爭。

67.建立記憶宮殿。

68.學習peg系統進行儲存。

69.

70.記住人們的名字。

71.冥想。培養專注和思想空明。

72.看不同流派的電影。

73.關掉電視。

74.改善專心度。

75.與大自然接觸。

76.心算。

77.每天保持中速。

78.改變某項活動的速度。要么有意過慢，要么過快。

79.一次只做一件事。

80.知道認知偏見。

81.把自己放在別人的位置。同樣的問題別人會怎么思考解決呢？一個傻瓜將會怎樣處理呢？

82.采取沉思的態度。

83.花時間獨處和放松。

84.終身學習。

85.出國旅行。學習不同的生活方式。

86.接受天才。（來昂而多是個出色的伙伴）。

87.與支持性的朋友進行網絡交流。

88.變得有競爭力。

89.不要只與志趣相同的人在一起。身邊要有些意見相左的人。

90.頭腦風暴。

91.改變你的看法。短/長期，個體/集體。

92.找到問題根源。

93.收集配額。

94.改變你所工作的媒體。用紙代替電腦；錄音代替寫。

95.閱讀古典文學。

96.開發你的閱讀技巧。有效閱讀是個技巧，掌握它。

97.概述書。

98.發展自我意識。

99.大聲說出你的問題。

100.寫出你辛苦歷程經歷。

101.學習盲文。你可以從樓層數字開始學習，當你乘電梯時學習。

102.買一件困擾你的藝術品。刺激你的感官誘發思考。

103.試著使用不同的香水香氣。

104.混合你的感官。發粉紅色的份量有多少？薰衣草氣味怎樣？

105.爭論！捍衛一個論據。也嘗試做反對方。

106.使用時間盒。

107.給智力開發分配時間。

108.有自己的精神之殿。

109.保持好奇！

110.挑戰自己。

111.開發可視劃技巧。一天至少使用5次。

112.記下你所作的夢。在床邊放一本筆記本，早上第一時間記下夢或從夢中醒來的時候就記下。

113.學習清明夢。

114.記下有趣的詞。

115.找出隱喻。將抽象和具體聯系起來。

116.處理壓力。

117.隨機輸入。在雜志里隨機寫個詞。隨即閱讀使用

118.每天走不同的路線。改變上班的路徑，漫步回家。

119.在計算機上安裝不同操作系統。

120.增加詞匯量。

121.遞交意料之外。