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.

从今天开始，有120种方法有助你更快思考，改善记忆，增强理解力以及释放大脑所有潜能。
1.猜字谜，做脑筋急转弯游戏。
2.培养两手同能。用你的左手刷牙、梳头或握鼠标。同时用两只手写字。两只手交替握刀叉。

3.包容模棱两可。学会享受似是而非的事情和幻觉。

4.学习心智图法。

5.中断一个或更多感官。蒙着眼睛吃饭、戴耳塞。闭着眼睛洗澡。

6．培养适当品味。学习适当品尝葡萄酒、巧克力、啤酒、奶酪及其它东西。

7.找出两个似乎不相关话题间的交集。

8.学习使用不同的键盘布局。尝试Colemak或Dvorak 进行完全头脑风暴。

9.从普通物体上找出新奇之处。一颗钉子你能找出多少种不同用法呢？是10还是100？

10.反向设想。

11.学习创造性技能。

12.远离第一个，正确答案。

13.调换现实顺序。多问“如果...将会怎样”。

14.蹦跳。

15.将图片或桌面壁纸颠倒过来。

16.变成挑剔的思考者。学习认出一般谬论。

17.学习有逻辑性。做逻辑类谜题。

18.了解科学方法．

19.信手图画。你不必变成艺术家。

20.积极思考。

21.致身于艺术--雕刻、绘画、玩音乐--或者其他艺术。

22.学习变戏法。

23.吃健脑食品。

24.保持轻微饥饿感。

25.锻炼。

26.坐直。

27.大量喝水。

28.深呼吸。

29.大笑。

30.多样活动。有爱好。

31.睡好。

32.能量盹。

33.听音乐。

34.战胜拖延。

35.少量技术．

36.在网页上寻找智力资源。

37.改变服装。赤脚走。

38.掌握自我对话。

39.简单化。

40.下棋或其他棋盘类游戏。通过网络玩（特别有趣的是通过邮件玩正在进行的游戏）。

41.玩智能游戏。数独游戏、纵横字谜及其它。

42.保持童真。

43.玩电子游戏。

44.保持幽默感。写或创造笑话。

45.创建100列。

46.拥有观念限额。

47.捕获每个想法。保持思想库。

48.深思熟虑。想法都要经过深思。每隔段时间思考一次。

49.从事主题观察。一天内尽量多的认出红色。找出特殊制造的汽车。创造一个主题并集中于此。

50.记日记。

51.学习外文。

52.在不同餐馆吃饭--特别是民族餐馆。

53.学习怎样计算机编程。

54.从后往前拼写长的词。

55.改变环境。改变物体或家具的摆放位置--或者到其他地方去。

56.写作！写故事，写诗，写博客。

57.学习手语。

58.学习使用乐器。

59.参观博物馆。

60.学习大脑是怎样工作的。

61.学习速读。

62.找出你的学习风格。

63.倾倒日历

64.试着在内心估计时间通道。

65.瞎猜。亚马逊雨林有更多地树叶还是你脑袋里有更多的神经元接点？（答案）

66.与数学交朋友。与数学盲抗争。

67.建立记忆宫殿。

68.学习peg系统进行储存。

69.

70.记住人们的名字。

71.冥想。培养专注和思想空明。

72.看不同流派的电影。

73.关掉电视。

74.改善专心度。

75.与大自然接触。

76.心算。

77.每天保持中速。

78.改变某项活动的速度。要么有意过慢，要么过快。

79.一次只做一件事。

80.知道认知偏见。

81.把自己放在别人的位置。同样的问题别人会怎么思考解决呢？一个傻瓜将会怎样处理呢？

82.采取沉思的态度。

83.花时间独处和放松。

84.终身学习。

85.出国旅行。学习不同的生活方式。

86.接受天才。（来昂而多是个出色的伙伴）。

87.与支持性的朋友进行网络交流。

88.变得有竞争力。

89.不要只与志趣相同的人在一起。身边要有些意见相左的人。

90.头脑风暴。

91.改变你的看法。短/长期，个体/集体。

92.找到问题根源。

93.收集配额。

94.改变你所工作的媒体。用纸代替电脑；录音代替写。

95.阅读古典文学。

96.开发你的阅读技巧。有效阅读是个技巧，掌握它。

97.概述书。

98.发展自我意识。

99.大声说出你的问题。

100.写出你辛苦历程经历。

101.学习盲文。你可以从楼层数字开始学习，当你乘电梯时学习。

102.买一件困扰你的艺术品。刺激你的感官诱发思考。

103.试着使用不同的香水香气。

104.混合你的感官。发粉红色的份量有多少？薰衣草气味怎样？

105.争论！捍卫一个论据。也尝试做反对方。

106.使用时间盒。

107.给智力开发分配时间。

108.有自己的精神之殿。

109.保持好奇！

110.挑战自己。

111.开发可视划技巧。一天至少使用5次。

112.记下你所作的梦。在床边放一本笔记本，早上第一时间记下梦或从梦中醒来的时候就记下。

113.学习清明梦。

114.记下有趣的词。

115.找出隐喻。将抽象和具体联系起来。

116.处理压力。

117.随机输入。在杂志里随机写个词。随即阅读使用

118.每天走不同的路线。改变上班的路径，漫步回家。

119.在计算机上安装不同操作系统。

120.增加词汇量。

121.递交意料之外。