We're curious minds, hackers and tinkerers.
We love to tweak our tools.
But our most important and wonderful tool is our own brain.
How can we understand what's going on so we can hack it?
This is the full-text slide deck for "Hack Your Brain".
You can find all the trivia in "Hack Your Brain - Trivia" and a french (lighter) version in "Hack Your Brain - FR".
1. hAcK yOuR brAin
@abelar_s - maitre-du-monde.fr @HumanTalks 12/02/2013
These are full-text slides for
« Hack Your Brain »
The talk’s slides are lighter
because too much text annoys
and distracts the audience.
You will find more details here.
Trivia: https://speakerdeck.com/abelar_s/hack-your-brain-trivia
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2. Who am I ?
‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB
‣ Ruby depuis 2006
‣ Rails depuis 2007
GMathieu
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3. Who am I ?
‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB
‣ Ruby since 2006
‣ Rails since 2007
And I have some heroes. For Science.
‣ they’rein no particular order
‣ they may have much, much more trivia
‣ some of these fun facts might be myths
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4. iNtelliGence
Leonardo da Vinci
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5. What is it? Albert Einstein
Sorry, I can’t and
won’t define it
‣ is it some quantity?
‣ you’re smart
‣ he’s talented
‣ she has a gift
‣ or a kind of muscle?
‣ you worked hard
‣ he spent hours on this!
‣ she’s put a lot of effort
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6. The problem is Kurt Gödel
when you’re at a limit
‣ you’re not smart
‣ you’re ashamed
‣ you will never succeed
‣ your ego will not want to try
hard things you might fail
‣ work on it!
‣ I failed? I didn’t work enough
‣ Get out of comfort zone
‣ Seek challenges, get better!
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7. Genius! Évariste Galois
geniuses don’t exist
‣ that’s about respect
‣ he’s smart? he earned it
‣ don’t dismiss his hard work
‣ and self-respect
‣ you can be a genius too!
‣ it’s never too late
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8. QED Karl-Friedrich Gauss
the sky’s the limit
‣ self-fulfilling prophecy
‣ the first step is believing
‣ think you can’t? you won’t!
‣ put the extra effort
‣ go from good to great
‣ rate yourself on 10‘000 not 10
‣ form habits
‣ make 110% become your 100%
‣ don’t let 80% become 100%
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9. Read more... Daniel Tammet
‣ The secret to raising smart kids
Carol S. Dweck: http://www.scientificamerican.com/
article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids
‣ Sebastian Marshall
http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-1-to-10-scale-vs-the-1-
to-10000-scale
‣ Derek Sivers https://sivers.org/kimo
« There’s no speed limit »
‣ Daniel Tammet
« Embracing the wide sky »
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10. eXpertiSe
SMBC, by @ZachWeiner
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722
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11. Mastery Grigori Perelman
Guess what? I can’t and
won’t define it
‣ Beginner
‣ knows some rules
‣ Skilled
‣ knows and applies the rules
‣ Expert
‣ understands the rules
‣ combine them into new stuff
‣ Master
‣ innovates, teaches
‣ breaks the rules, innovates
‣ « feels », has a trained instinct
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12. 10‘000 hours Bobby Fischer
‣ will10‘000h make me an expert?
‣ deliberate practice
‣ explorations
‣ serendipity
‣ questions
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13. Read more... Srinivasa Ramanujan
‣ Terrence Tao : http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-
advice/there’s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/
‣ SMBC ! http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722
‣ Google « 10‘000 hours »
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15. Memory Benjamin Franklin
I won’t define it either ;)
but there’s lots of research and it’s
getting better understood
‣ It’s actually a graph
‣ we’re storing
many, many bits of knowledge
‣ we’re retrieving
better if they’re woven together
‣ similarities / differences
to what we already know
‣ works better if it’s personal
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16. Forgetting
‣ Reinforcement ‣ Spacing
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17. Experiences « Rasta » Liebniz
‣ themes and categories
‣ relate new things to known stuff
‣ add emotions
‣ how does this make you feel?
‣ add examples
‣ remember abstract stuff
by their concrete examples
‣ Look at ankisrs.net
‣ also used in duolingo et al.
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19. Be stupid! Richard Feynman
http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/tag/studying/
‣Feynman Technique
‣ ask « stupid » questions
‣ don’t get lost at the start!
‣ use simpler words
‣ add analogies / metaphors
‣ you might find errors
in the common wisdom
‣ Subtle variations
isn’t this ringing a bell?
‣ Lean Startup
‣ Fail fast
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20. Hirschfield’s rules Marie Curie
‣ http://blog.creativethink.com/2006/11/tom_hirshfields.html
1. set targets: not too small, nor too big
2. don’t look at details first
3. rephrase
4. try another direction
5. explain to other people
6. transforming a problem
into another problem
7. if it’s surprising, it’s useful
8. study the inverse problem
9. analyze your own methods
10. ask « why this? »
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21. QED Grace Hopper
Have you noticed?
these are actually tips to:
‣ time management
‣ like setting priorities
‣ hacking motivation
‣ getting results is a key
‣ better health
‣ hacking yourself is
caring about yourself
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