Resources

Frequently Asked Questions About Optimizing Mental Performance

Reddit AMA

Common questions about neurohacking and brain optimization

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Blinkist Q&A

Video answers to common questions

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Five Neurohacking Tips

From Red (UK) Magazine

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4-Minute Mood Neurohack

For Reading Groups

For Neurohacking Groups

Self-Regulation

Compare the effectiveness of games vs. meditation for your self-regulation

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Creativity

Test walking vs. calisthenics for boosting your creativity

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Learning & Memory

Compare spaced repetition vs. traditional study methods

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Executive Function

Test magic words with and without objects using the Placebo effect

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Communities

Testing Tools

Mental Performance Testing

Selected Self-Tracking and Self-Experimentation Projects

Who Goes First? Book

The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine

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10 Months at Harvard, Quantified

Academic self-tracking experiment

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Quantified Anatomy of a Paper

Academic writing process tracked

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Stephen Wolfram's Personal Analytics

Detailed self-tracking by Mathematica creator

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DIY Neuroscience and "Makers"

tDCS (~$5-10)

DIY transcranial direct current stimulation

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EEG (~$65 at most)

DIY electroencephalography projects

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Elizabeth Ricker's EEG Project

MIT fabrication class project

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Additional Resources

For hundreds of curated scientific and general audience books, articles, and other sources used in the research and writing of the book, Smarter Tomorrow, check out the Notes in the back. Each chapter has its own set of sources, making it easy to navigate to specific topics of interest. For example, you can easily find the original research studies cited in the section on air pollution and mental performance (in chapter 6 "Debugging Yourself") in the back of the book.

There are growing communities around the world interested in learning more about their brains and cognition in self-driven ways. You may have heard of the Quantified Self, Maker Movement, Hacker movements, DIY, project-based learning? Explore the resources above to amp your social process.

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