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Self Improvement
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 the brain's built-in cheat codes and hack your way to success. Plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features, use these to your advantage to teach, learn and persuade. Tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits as we interface with our brains.
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Exploiting the Brain for Fun & Profit #dc4d 2016
- Alena Holligan @sketchings sketchings.com PHP Teacher at Treehouse PHP Users Group Leader Women Who Code Leader
- Exploiting the Brain for Fun and Profit
- Two Truths Everyone is the same Everyone is different
- MOST IMPORTANT TOOL Sleep Physical: Food & Exercise Knowledge Managing Information YOUR BRAIN
- READ ALOUD enthusiastic motivational fascinating enjoyable fun humorous useful beneficial simple profitable valuable easy
- REARRANGE SENTENCE talk this beneficial is fascinating
- PRIMING
- 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/
- The Brain Makes Things Up
- WE DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT!
- I’m always right. I remember things wrong.
- How do we use this to our advantage?
- SLEEP
- -Leo J. Burke "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
- Question: How much sleep do you get?
- 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
- DIDN’T FEEL IMPAIRED
- Some people need less insomniac gene
- Probably NOT You!
- 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
- morning lark (1/10) night owl (2/10) play to your strengths When are you at your best
- SLEEP HACKS 90 minute cycles Create a routine Turn off electronics or f.lux Stop caffeine Cool and Dark Room/Bed is Sacred SOUND SMELL
- Quick Tip
- NAPS IMPROVE PERFORMANCE 26 min nap = 34% improvement ~ army
- PHYSICAL Food & Exercise
- -Bill Phillips "Food is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and exercise is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant."
- FOOD AS FUEL Brain adores glucose 2% of mass 20% of energy Your brain needs fat Balance: carbs, proteins and fats Supplements Caffeine and Alcohol are drugs, use carefully
- WHY EXERCISE improves blood flows clears waste improves performance actually makes brain bigger Exercise for 75 minutes to maximize mortality reduction per minute 20%
- Walking Desks Walking Meetings Boeing Mayo Clinic Start your day with Yoga
- Quick Tip
- Power Poses Amy J.C. Cuddy
- Knowledge
- -Heraclitus “The only constant is change” (especially on the internet)
- LEARNED Use multiple modalities Attention needs engagement Elaborate, Meaningful, Context Stories and Examples
- INTEGRATED WITH EXISTING KNOWLEDGE Make it yours - do something with it Teach
- REMEMBERED OVER TIME Forgetting stuff is a feature not a bug Take frequent breaks Follow up Spaced Repetition - Increased knowledge and retention - Timing is key - Information decay - computers can help - The Mnemosyne Project
- DEPLOYED AS BEHAVIOR Have the right attitude Make it a habit - habitica.com
- Quick Tip
- Make up a crazy story
- Managing Information
- new languages new technologies new approaches books articles blogs podcasts twitter conferences Bombarded with Information overload
- Continuous Partial Attention
- We can’t multi-task Cell phones prove this
- EMAIL IS LIKE GAMBLING variable reinforcement
- 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 note reading it delete it
- Turn off Interruptions TV Email Facebook Cell Phone
- Productivity Inbox Zero (declare bankruptcy) Getting Things Done (GTD) Pomodoro Technique (Agile)
- Quick Tip
- External Brain Capture ideas to generate more ideas. We Forget. No, you wont remember.
- Computers Don’t
- Paper Doesn’t Either
- Wiki is a great tool for teams
- Final Review
- Location, Location, Location Mindfulness Try new things Quality over Quantity Write it down Breathe Balance
- -Ralph Keeney, Duke University America’s top killer isn’t cancer or heart disease, nor is it smoking or obesity. It’s our inability to make smart choices and overcome our own self-destructive behaviors.
- Choose One Small Step Today
- Resources
- BOOKS Predictably Irrational A Whole New Mind Getting Things Done Your Brain: The Missing Manual Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Brain Rules Mind Hacks Sway Nudge Drive
- WEBSITES brainrules.net lifehacker.com 43folders.com/izero mindhacks.com
- Alena Holligan @sketchings sketchings.com PHP Teacher at Treehouse PHP Users Group Leader Women Who Code Leader
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