Sure, you could improve yourself or promote your project the normal way, with hard work and years of slow, incremental progress. Or you could use some of the brain’s built-in cheat codes to level up on your way to success.
Along with learning, our brains are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we have been unable to remove. Use these “features” to your advantage to teach, learn and persuade. Join us in a tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits that allow you to play with the interface between our brains and the world.
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1. Exploiting The Brain
Alena Holligan
@sketchings
sketchings.com
Wife and Mother of 3 young children
PHP Teacher at Treehouse
PHP Users Group Leader
Women Who Code Leader
For Fun And Profit
7. Elderly Priming
Words: Old, Gray, Florida
Significantly longer to walk to the
elevator
Done on psychology students
Did the priming influence you? NO
Why? Make things up
We don’t say “I don’t know”
instagram.com/ginalee/
13. Sleep Experiment
5 days mimicked Alzheimer's
hallucinations and paranoia
30% loss in cognitive ability
after 1 night
Physical Affects: blood
pressure, immune system,
body temp
Factor to obesity
trouble metabolizing
glucose
feel hungry
get cravings
longer to feel full
17. Analyze
How much do you need, sleepcycle.com
Wake up at the same time everyday, even weekends
- go to bed when you’re tired
Go to bed at the same time everyday
- wake up without an alarm
Write down how you feel, multiple times
- both physically and emotionally
29. Food As Fuel
Brain adores glucose
2% of mass
20% of energy
Your brain needs fat
Protein signifies full
Balance: carbs, proteins
and fats
Water
Supplements
Caffeine and Alcohol are
drugs, use carefully
42. Attention Is Precious
Be Selective
Information Diet
Selective Ignorance
Pick something you
care about
Skim the rest
Use your friends
Prune Aggressively
If you’re not reading it
delete it
48. External Brain
Capture ideas to generate more ideas.
We Forget (No, you wont remember!)
Computers Don’t Forget
Paper Doesn’t Either
Wiki is a great tool for teams