Your brain is full of skills.  Sometimes they work together to get you what you want.  Sometimes they don't.

We took some well-known tricks in cognitive psychology and cognitive engineering that people use to harness the skills they already have to the things they want to do.  We made those tricks into self-growth of self-improvement tools that would be easy and convenient for people to use.  Here are the tools.  Help yourself.  It's free

D. F. Dansereau and S. H. Evans  

Brains are like muscles.  People come equipped with muscles.  People naturally know how to use their muscles.  So why do athletes and body-builders talk about biceps, triceps and deltoids?  The talking parts of the brain are getting into the act.  Those talking parts can help in ways the other brain parts can’t begin to understand.  Athletes apply their full brainpower to their goals.

You don't have to be an athlete to apply your full brainpower to your goals. 
But you do have to know your brainpower.
And you do have to know your goals. 

The Thinkerer is an insider’s view of how people use their brains when they figure out how to do things.   And of what people can do to get more cooperation out of their brains. 

The Thinkerer also offers a collection of tools that you can use to get better work out of your brain.  If you use one of these tools for a while, your brain will turn it into a habit.  Then you will carry the tool in your head.  You always have it with you.  As long as you bring your head along.

Acknowledgements

Our thanks to:  Captain James Tiberius Kirk, of the starship Enterprise;  Mr. Spock; Luke Skywalker;  Obi-Wan Kenobi; Yoda; Dorothy and her friends in Oz; Estragon; Vladimir; Alice and the people in the looking glass; Slartibartfast; Dianna Troy, Ship’s Counselor;  Bilbo Baggins; The Holodeck;  Eliza Doolittle; Ford Prefect; the Grand Inquisitor;  Walter Mitty; Perseus, Son of Zeus; The Little Engine That Could; Lex Luthor; Rocky Balboa; the Tooth Fairy; Fractals; Bloody Mary; The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance;  Ben Hur; Godot; Starfleet regulations; Goldilocks; Jed Clampett; Professor Albus Dumbledore.

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