57 Brain-Boosting Tools For Superior People

Harry Hoover
2 min readNov 16, 2017

I believe that your God-given creative talents can be honed. So, below is my essential — and ever expanding — list of creativity resources to help you, the superior person, improve your innate abilities. Most of these are free and online.

Apps

Corkulous — An iPad app that provides you with a digital cork board on which to collect ideas.

iBrainstorm — An Apple app that allows you to collect and share ideas collaboratively.

Magic Piano — Relax your soul with beautiful sounds of piano while playing your favorite tunes on original #1 piano rhythm game.

Mindomo — Capture your thoughts directly on mind maps, turn them into presentations on the fly, and share them with others. Synchronize your maps to the cloud, from any device.

MoodBoard — Moodboard Pro is an amazing app for organizing all the things that inspire you.

Paper — When inspiration happens, put it on Paper. Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches.

Penultimate — The ultimate app for iPad. Stylish, powerful, and easy to use, Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches, or work through your next breakthrough idea– whether you’re in the office, on the go, or home on the couch.

SimpleMind — A mind mapping tool that turns your computer, tablet or phone into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.

Books

Born Creative: Free Your Mind, Free Yourself (Shameless promotion alert) Harry Hoover’s free book on using your innate creativity can change your life.

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci — Great book that lays out da Vinci’s approach to thinking.

Thinkertoys — In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing creativity tools that will help you think like a genius.

Get the rest of the resources at my website: You, Improved.

Harry Hoover is a husband, father, grandfather, veteran, writer-for-hire, author: Get Glad, Born Creative & Moving to Charlotte, and a lover of bacon and wine. You may read his self-improvement articles at you-improved.com. This article may contain affiliate links.

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Harry Hoover
Harry Hoover

Written by Harry Hoover

Harry is the author of Get Glad: Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life, Moving to Charlotte: The Un-Tourist Guide, Born Creative, & The Dad’s Book of Jokes.

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