Welcome to /mentat/, a board for those who seek to enhance the capability of their mind to its limit. A mentat is a human computer capable of great feats of memory, analytics, mathematics and logic. You can find a good overview of what a mentat is here-
>http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1643
This board was created for the purpose of creating a place on ∞chan for those who wish to train themselves to be a mentat and enhance their cognitive capacity. This started as my own personal goal with >>>/improve/4113 , but I've decided that anyone training to be a mentat could benefit from a learning community to be part of.
My goals for this board is to create a place for the exchange of information and resources relating to mentat training, as well as a learning community of mentats that studies together and intellectually challenges other members of the community by means of discussion and debate.
I also believe a mentat should be more than analytics, logic, math and memory. A mentat, being a human computer, a hybrid of the two (so to say), should not neglect history, arts and humanities and culture for purely scientific/mathematic studies. To this end, a community of mentats should also be a place for the discussion and exchange significant cultural works- movies, art, music, literature.
So let this board be a place for not just the discussion of enhancing our cognitive abilities to their limits, but also a place for the discussion and expansion upon our worldly and cultural knowledge.
Resources *copied from my /improve/ thread for now, will create a more comprehensive list later
>Mentat Wiki
>http://www.ludism.org/mentat/HomePage
Stage one: Healthy body, healthy mind
Exercise: http://ss.fitness (thanks /fit/)
Couch-to-5k, https://archive.is/D0Qxr
Workout Routine: https://archive.is/fqa8M
Diet: http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/11/10/healthy-eating/
Sleep: http://www.apk4market.com/apps/health-fitness/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock-v1-3-696-apk/
Meditation: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/09/07/a-primer-on-meditation/
Stage two: Brain Training
Language Learning
>Memrise http://www.memrise.com/home/
>Duolingo https://en.duolingo.com
Math
>www.khanacademy.org
>http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu
>http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html
Speed Reading
>http://readfa.st/read
Studying/Knowledge expansion
>https://www.coursera.org
>www.edx.org
Spaced Repetition Software (memory training)
>http://ankisrs.net
Stage three: Cognitive training+enhancement
Nootropics
>https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics/wiki/beginners
>http://www.ludism.org/mentat/NootropicsPrimer
Dual N-back
>http://brainscale.net
Progress tracking
>http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com
>http://www.quantified-mind.com