Exploiting the Brain for Fun & Profit #zendcon2016
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What is your greatest tool in your toolbox? Your brain! Sure, you could sharpen this tool and 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 and just hack 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
- 2. Your most important tool Perception Physical Learning Memory
- 3. Everyone with a Brain Stand Up
- 4. Run in Place “Awake and Alert”
- 5. PUNCHES “listen, pay attention, follow through”
- 7. talk this beneficial is fascinating
- 8. PRIMING
- 9. 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/
- 10. The Brain Makes Things Up
- 11. WE DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT!
- 12. I’m always right. I remember things wrong.
- 13. How do we use this to our advantage?
- 14. Two Truths Everyone is the same Everyone is different
- 15. PHYSICAL Sleep, Food & Exercise
- 16. SLEEP
- 17. -Leo J. Burke "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
- 18. Question: How much sleep do you get?
- 20. Sleep Experiment Physical Affects blood pressure immune system body temp 1 night, -30% cognitive ability 5 days, mimics Alzheimer’s Hallucinations and Paranoia Factor to Obesity metabolism feel hungry get cravings longer to feel full
- 22. Some people need less insomniac gene
- 24. 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
- 25. When are you at your best morning lark (1/10) night owl (2/10) play to your strengths
- 26. 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
- 27. Quick Tip
- 28. Naps Improve Performance 26 min nap = 34% improvement ~ army
- 29. Everyone with a Brain Stand Up
- 30. Exercise
- 31. Why Exercise improves blood flows clears waste (in your brain) improves performance actually makes brain bigger
- 32. Walking Walking Desks Walking Meetings Boeing Mayo Clinic Start your day with Yoga
- 33. Quick Tip Time Out App
- 34. Exercise for 75 minutes to maximize mortality reduction by 20%
- 35. Food
- 36. -Bill Phillips "Food is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and exercise is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant."
- 37. 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
- 38. Quick Tip Change the way you think about food. Find a good supplement
- 39. Learning
- 40. Everyone with a Brain Stand Up
- 41. Knowledge Learned Integrated with existing knowledge Remembered over time Deployed as Behavior
- 42. Learned Use multiple modalities Attention needs engagement Elaborate, Meaningful, Context Stories and Examples
- 43. Integrated with Existing Knowledge Make it yours - do something with it Teach
- 44. Remembered Over Time Forgetting stuff is a feature not a bug Take frequent breaks Follow up Spaced Repetition - The Mnemosyne Project
- 45. Deployed as Behavior Have the right attitude Make it a habit - habitica.com
- 46. Quick Tips Make up crazy story Senses: including Smells and Sounds
- 48. Bombarded with Information Overload new languages new technologies new approaches books articles blogs podcasts twitter conferences email
- 50. We can’t multi-task Cell phones prove this
- 51. Email is like Gambling variable reinforcement
- 52. Attention is Precious Selective Ignorance Information Diet Pick something you care about Skim the rest Use your friends Prune Aggressively
- 54. Productivity Inbox Zero (declare bankruptcy) Getting Things Done (GTD) Pomodoro Technique (Agile) Sounds (focusatwill.com) Location, Location, Location
- 55. Quick Tip
- 56. External Brain Capture ideas to generate more ideas. We Forget. No, you wont remember.
- 58. Computers Don’t
- 60. Wiki is a great tool for teams
- 61. Everyone with a Brain Stand Up
- 62. Final Review Mindfulness Balance Quality over Quantity Engage your Senses Try new things Write it down Location, Location, Location Don’t forget to breathe
- 63. Resources
- 64. Books Predictably Irrational A Whole New Mind Your Brain: The Missing Manual Pragmatic Thinking and Learning The Secret Code of Success Getting Things Done Brain Rules Mind Hacks Sway Nudge Drive
- 66. There’s an App for that sleepcycle.com f.lux dejal.com/timeout/ habitica.com coach.me
- 67. -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.
- 68. Choose One Small Step Today
- 69. Alena Holligan @sketchings sketchings.com Wife and Mother of 3 young children PHP Teacher at Treehouse PHP Users Group Leader Women Who Code Leader https://joind.in/18814