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Name: Smarter Tomorrow
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Author: Elizabeth R. Ricker

Elizabeth R. Ricker

How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done

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What’s in it for me? Get up to date with neurohacking.

Maybe you think that you’re not going to get any smarter with age. Or perhaps you believe that because you’ve never been particularly creative, that’s how you’ll always be. Or you’re convinced that you’ll be cursed with a poor memory forever.

Well, if you think any of those things, you’re mistaken! And if you’ve ever wanted to stretch a particular part of your brain, then the concept of neurohacking should fill you with hope. Neurohackers know that human brains aren’t fixed – they’re plastic. We can change, after all.

Drawing on the insights of neuroscientists, these blinks lay out the theory behind neurohacking – along with actionable exercises to improve your memory, spark your creativity, and stretch your grey matter.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why ADHD can be a superpower;
how creativity can be honed; and
what archery tells us about neuronal connections.

Neurohacking involves self-knowledge and self-experimentation.

You’ve probably heard the term “life hack.” It’s something that allows you to jump ahead in life without too much effort – a shortcut, in other words.

Neurohacking, then, means looking for shortcuts to improve mental capability. By understanding how the brain works, neurohackers can improve their cognitive skills and reflexes, or seek to relieve psychological disorders.

This brings us to another context for the word “hack”: the computer hacker. Just as hackers have to be intimately familiar with the computer systems they’re trying to infiltrate, neurohackers must become experts on their own personal systems: their brains.

Becoming a neurohacker means learning about your own, marvelous, one-of-a-kind supercomputer. This is where neurohacking differs from traditional self-help. Rather than relying on blanket prescriptions and advice, it requires truly getting to know – and experimenting on – yourself.

The key message here is: Neurohacking involves self-knowledge and self-experimentation.

Neurohackers take a DIY scientist’s approach – they measure the brain’s capabilities and test solutions to improve them.

To learn about your brain, you’ll need to measure and track its progress in the areas you’re seeking to improve. For example, if you think your memory could use some work, then you’ll need to test your memory skills and record them over time.

Happily, there’s no better moment than the present to do this! We live in the age of free, self-tracking apps that record everything from language learning to memory recall. Self-tracking can also be used to detect other things – environmental or physical – that might be impairing your mental performance.

Take the case of Mark Drangsholt, a clinician and scientist. In 2014, he complained to his doctor that he was suffering from terrible brain fog – periods when he’d have lapses of concentration and memory. At first, his doctor was unable to help, so Drangsholt took matters into his own hands.

After using direct-to-consumer companies to gather personal cognitive, genetic, and blood data, Drangsholt returned to his doctor. Together, with all of this info in hand, they discovered the cause: narrowed blood vessels in a key area of Drangsholt’s brain. Without this DIY approach and self-knowledge, his problem may have gone unsolved.

It’s this self-knowledge that gives us the power to hack our mental abilities. In the following blinks, we’ll look at how to put it to work.

Your brain’s wiring is unique – and malleable.

So, to become an effective neurohacker, you’ll need to know your own mind. Just as no two snowflakes are the same, there is no other brain like yours. In fact, even if you’re an identical twin, you’ll differ, neurologically speaking, from your sibling.

Some of the things that make your brain yours are things that you were born with. But, according to scientists, only 50 percent of your intelligence is determined by genetic factors. The other 50 percent comes from nongenetic factors, like your individual experiences and habits. This means that it’s possible to alter your brain depending on how you use it. Your brain is editable.

Executive functioning is a crucial strength that can be neurohacked.

When she was in high school, the author knew a guy called Mark.

At lunch one day, she watched him strike up a conversation with a group of friends. The conversation was about the potential of the internet. After getting the conversation going, Mark sat back. Occasionally, he’d interrupt to ask a question, or gently guide the conversation in new directions. This guy, the author noticed, was able to see the bigger picture very quickly, hold multiple things in his mind at once, and synthesize all the different arguments he heard.

Emotional self-regulation is vital for success – and it’s something you can work on.

Imagine that you’re at a funeral, and for some perverse reason, you feel laughter bubbling up inside you. You’re thinking of something completely unrelated to the sad moment at hand. You glance around and see rows and rows of somber, tear-stained faces. If you laugh now, many of those people might never speak to you again.

Luckily, you manage to stifle the laughter and keep a solemn expression. This is because you have something known as emotional self-regulation. Without it, you’d go through life reacting to things in the most inappropriate ways.

Use neurohacking to boost your memory and learning speed.

Occasionally, you’ll meet someone who’s a superhuman learner with a memory rivaling that of an elephant. They’ll be able to repeat a complex task after only seeing it once, or speak a foreign language in no time at all.

But the rest of us have to work with what we’ve got. Thankfully, there are ways to improve our memories – which is good news, as fast learning and the ability to memorize have become more important than ever.

Creativity is something you can cultivate.

Creativity can seem like an enigmatic quality. We often think of creative inspiration as something that strikes us mysteriously. Poets speak of being visited by the Muse to explain flashes of inspiration that appear and then vanish before they know it.

We often believe that creativity is something you inherently have – or don’t. You’re born an artist, or you’re not. The truth, however, might be a little more mundane. Creativity is actually something you can practice.

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Worum geht es in Smarter Tomorrow?

Smarter Tomorrow (2021) shows you how to upgrade your brain using a technique called neurohacking. You’ll learn how to improve your memory, creativity, emotional regulation, and what’s known as “executive functioning” through self-testing and experimentation – all backed up with insights from neuroscience.

Wer Smarter Tomorrow lesen sollte

Thinkers looking to improve their cognitive skills
Budding neuroscientists and brain nerds
Anyone looking to keep up with modern science

Über den Autor

Elizabeth R. Ricker is a brain researcher who specializes in cognitive enhancement and neurohacking. She has lectured internationally on brain science and has provided expertise to Silicon Valley venture capital firms, technology startups, schools, and a Fortune 500 company.

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