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You've seen how to hack your health, then hack your brain. But it's tiring to work on oneself relentlessly. How do you keep the motivation? Now hack the hacks!
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- 1. @abelar_s - maitre-du-monde.fr hAcK yOuR MOtiVAtiOn « Hack Your Brain » This is the second part of « Hack Your Brain » series: managing your time, habits and motivation using your brain’s elasticity. @HumanTalks 12/03/2013 Trivia: https://speakerdeck.com/abelar_s/hack-your-brain-trivia
- 2. Who am I? ‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB ‣ Ruby since 2006, Rails since 2007 ‣ Asking questions since 1984 This talk follows... ‣ Health tips from geek to geek ‣ Hack Your Brain - for introduction ‣ H.Y.B. Trivia - for my science heroes
- 3. Hack Your Brain Nikola Tesla Previously on HYB... ‣ Intelligence ‣ just know you can ‣ Expertise ‣ deliberate practice ‣ Memory ‣ create links and emotions ‣ Toolbox ‣ make it simpler, question it ... now hack the hacks!
- 4. Starting blocks Cicero Why & How? would you want more motivation? ‣ Unsatisfaction ‣ why change if you’re happy? ‣ Laziness ‣ makes you try to optimize
- 5. Willpower Jean-François Champollion Willpower is a muscle ‣ strengthen it ‣ find your limit ‣ then push it forward! ‣ let it rest ‣ recover
- 6. Rewards Blaise Pascal Bribe yourself! ‣ reward work ‣ with actionable results ‣ smart rewards ‣ don’t defeat the purpose ‣ beware of rebound effect
- 7. Triggers Train yourself ‣ strengths & weaknesses ‣ seeing X remind you that... ‣ might be a tempting trap ‣ or a hint of shame ‣ build your triggers ‣ hey, it’s 10AM! Have I stretched? ‣ out of work! Do I need to buy...? ‣ on my way, is my TODO OK? Benoît Mandelbrot
- 8. Habits Ada Byron-Lovelace Bypass willpower ‣ routine ‣ a trigger can grow into a habit ‣ then uses much less willpower ‣ in just 66 days? ‣ it’s worth trying right?
- 9. Social René Descartes Shame, Pride & Herd ‣ be the worst ‣ become the average ‣ ... of your 5 closest people ‣ same with money (people feel content if they’re in the top 20% of people they know) ‣ find role models ‣ or just people you admire
- 10. Health Ambroise Paré Bad health = Bad decisions ‣ good sleep ‣ healthy food ‣ manage stress ‣ do some exercise
- 11. Hacks ‣ Temptations ‣ Oscar Wilde’s quote ‣ Obvious failures ‣ Tracking ‣ Avoid obviously bad stuff ‣ Forces you to think ‣ Seinfeld method ‣ Reinforcement ‣ Engagement ‣ Social ‣ pride over shame Nº1 Sadi Carnot * * this is Nicolas Léonard SADI CARNOT, there’s a cheat sheet at the end
- 12. Play! Roger Caillois Thanks @rwhy for @aral’s talk! Try Risk Fail
- 13. Wrapping up ‣ Cognitive ‣ Get in good shape ‣ Learn patterns => deliberate practice ‣ Sayings ‣ Practice makes perfect ‣ Fake it till you make it => don’t panic, you can too ‣ Self perception ‣ Dunning-Kruger Effect ‣ Impostor syndrome => track SMART goals, play! Louis Pasteur Dark Side version
- 15. Credits Jason Shen: Willpower talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapb6lZG-zE Aral Balkan: A Happy Grain Of Sand keynote http://vimeo.com/43524962 Gotlib: La Rubrique à Brac : Isaac Newtons GMathieu: Normalien / Centralien / Alien ... Eratosthenes
- 16. the CaRnOt Cheat Sheet Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physique, thermodynamique Lazare Hippolyte, maths, ingénieur, ministre Marie-François Sadi Carnot, président de la République Marie-Adolphe, chimiste, géologue, conseil général de Charente Lazare Nicolas Marguerite dit le Grand Carnot maths, physique, général Joseph François Claude, jurisconsulte Claude-Marie dit Carnot-Feulins, capitaine, député, ministre de l’intérieur