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@jackmexted
How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
How to calm down… FAST
AI Key Takeaways
- Breathing in a specific way, through the nose and then exhaling through the mouth, is a fast way to reduce stress levels.
- This breathing pattern is more effective than inhaling and exhaling through the nose separately.
@irresistibl
Making Sense of Social Media and the Information Landscape | Episode 8 of The Essential Sam Harris
The Problem with Social Media and Technology's Impact on Human Weaknesses
AI Key Takeaways
- Social media has a problem of incentives that are doing harm
- The exact harms of these incentives are hard to find
- Technology is undermining human weaknesses, not just overwhelming human strengths
- The film and presentation at SF Jazz Center framed the issue in this way
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@valeria
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
Eye Blinks and Their Effects on Perception of Time
AI Key Takeaways
- Attentional blinks are blinks of thinking where the mind shuts off for a moment and misses information
- There are two types of blinks: fast, coordinated spontaneous blinks and long, limiting blinks like when you sleep
- When you limit the amount of information coming in through long blinks, your perception of time starts to drift
- Your perception of time in waking and sleep is variable with the frame rate at which you analyze information
- The more alert you are, the higher the frame rate and faster your experience of time will be
@maddison
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
Meditation and Attentional Blinks
AI Key Takeaways
- A simple practice of taking 17 minutes to pay attention to one's internal state through meditation can forever rewire the brain to improve attention, regardless of age or cognitive abilities.
- Engaging in panoramic vision, or open monitoring, can also improve brain function by detecting more information in the environment.
@olexiy
Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
The Benefits of L-tyrosine on Dopamine and Cognitive Performance
AI Key Takeaways
- L-tyrosine increases circulating and available levels of dopamine at low dosages
- L-tyrosine improves cognitive and physical performance
- Taking L-tyrosine under stress can rescue cognitive function and improve working memory
@snowplace
Omega-3s and Brain Health | Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
The Four Processes That Can Cause Damage to the Brain
AI Key Takeaways
- A variety of a plant predominant diet is important for overall health and nutrient synergy
- Addressing vitamin B12, zinc, and selenium levels, as well as fiber consumption, is crucial for reaping the benefits of a plant-based diet
- Certain food groups like saturated fats and trans fatty acids can be harmful to brain health
- Processed or refined carbohydrates can cause damage to the brain and lead to abnormalities in glucose regulation
- Inflammation, oxidation, energy imbalance, and lipid dysregulation are the four processes that can damage the brain
@martine
#325 How Exercise Changes Your Brain & Why Anxiety Is Your Superpower with Dr Wendy Suzuki
The Neuroscience of Creativity
AI Key Takeaways
- Exercise releases growth factors in the brain that help with memory and new brain cell growth.
- The hippocampus is important for memory and imagination.
@maddison
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
Dopamine: The Neurotransmitter That Affects Focus and Motivation
AI Key Takeaways
- Dopamine is a neuro modulator that changes the activity of circuits in the brain.
- Dopamine creates a heightened state of focus and motivation.
- Dopamine is involved in changing the way we perceive the world by turning on areas of the brain that narrow our attention.
@jonasdovy
296. Neuroscience Meets Psychology | Dr. Andrew Huberman
The Science Behind 'Manifesting' and Setting Reward-Driven Rules for the Brain
AI Key Takeaways
- The prefrontal cortex can adopt new rules for reward release in the brain through flexible rule setting machines which taps into the dopamine system.
- The dopamine system is a major currency of reward in the brain.
- Belief in a narrative is not just a belief, but it affects real changes in our neurology.
@torunfurther
LIVE EVENT Q&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Seattle, WA
How to Improve Your Memory?
AI Key Takeaways
- To remember things, you need to get your brain and body into a high autonomic arousal state.
- If you tell yourself something is important, you will learn it better.
@timm
How to Learn Skills Faster
The Magic Brain Area and its Relation to Learning a Skill
AI Key Takeaways
- Stimulation of a certain brain area leads to more forward steps, repetitions, and effort in learning a skill.
- Neurobiological explanation for learning a skill is to perform as many repetitions as possible, especially when first learning.
- Performing more repetitions does not necessarily lead to faster learning and can result in errors.
- Making error reps is just as important as making correct reps in learning a skill.
@liormor
How to Focus to Change Your Brain
How to Accelerate Learning
AI Key Takeaways
- Engaging in activities like walking or running can create a self generated optic flow that leads to deep rest and shuts down parts of the brain like the amigdola.
- Alternating focused learning with wordless activities like walking or running can be more practical and pleasurable.
- Listening to audio books or podcasts while engaging in wordless activities may not be the most effective use of time.
@maddison
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
The Attentional Blink and ADHD: Over-Focusing and Missing Information
AI Key Takeaways
- People with ADHD have more attentional blinks than those without
- ADHD individuals can focus on things they care about despite the common notion that they cannot focus
- ADHD individuals may experience more attentional blinks than others, leading to a decreased ability to attend
- Understanding the circuits that underlie focus can help increase focus and attention abilities
@liormor
How Meditation Works & Science-Based Effective Meditations
A Meditation Practice for Balancing Interoception and Exteroception Across Time Domains
AI Key Takeaways
- The meditation practice called space time bridging is a simple and balanced practice
- It involves focusing on interoception and exteroception, and crossing different time domains of the brain using vision
- The practice involves focusing on your breathing or third eye center for three breaths, then splitting your attention between a surface on your body and your breath for three breaths
- You subsequently focus on a location in your immediate environment and then a location further away for three breaths each while still paying attention to your breath
- Finally, you focus on the fact that you are a tiny speck in the universe while still paying attention to your breath
- The practice helps to exercise the human mind's ability to deliberately place perception at specific locations along the interoceptive, exteroceptive continuum
- It is useful for those who tend to get stuck at one location along the continuum, such as when scrolling a phone or being focused solely on external stimuli
@jeffbrown
Ep. 249: The Good Enough Job (w/ Simone Stolzoff)
The Uptick in Dopamine Sickness Post-Pandemic
AI Key Takeaways
- Dopamine sickness is caused by constant targeted distraction through digital devices.
- It results in the inability to work up motivation for longer, more complex tasks.
- The pandemic has led to an uptick in dopamine sickness due to increased hyperactive exposure to distractions.
- Anxiety about world events may also contribute to dopamine sickness.
@jimmy
257 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd
Information Deficit Model is false. More data leads to stronger existing beliefs.
AI Key Takeaways
- The information deficit model is an old idea about scientific communication that has not stood up to scientific analysis.
- The concept of knowledge deficit suggests that many problems arise from a lack of access to scientific information.
- The idea that more education leads to less polarization and more engagement has not been supported by psychological research.
- The more education one gains, the better they become at rationalizing and justifying existing beliefs and attitudes.
- Motivation plays a key role in reasoning regardless of accuracy or harmfulness of beliefs.
@juliabeach
AMA #11: Improve Task Switching & Productivity and Reduce Brain Fog
Perceptual Exercise to Help Switching Tasks
AI Key Takeaways
- Shifting visual focus can improve task switching abilities.
- Focusing visual attention strongly influences time perception.
- Closing eyes and focusing on bodily sensations can alter time perception.
- The perceptual tool for task switching is a simple exercise that takes a few minutes.
- Shifting visual focus trains the brain to process time differently.
@erinwys
Brain Health Foods & Preventing Cognitive Decline via Lifestyle with Max Lugavere
Exercise Found to be Top Candidate for Correcting Gene Dysregulation in Alzheimer's Disease
AI Key Takeaways
- A study examined gene dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease and possible causes.
- Exercise was identified as a potential solution to gene dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease.
- Exercise was ranked in the top three potential solutions.
@param
Optimizing Workspace for Productivity, Focus, & Creativity
Visual Placement and Focus
AI Key Takeaways
- Our eyes and brain are wired together in a way that affects our level of alertness.
- Looking down at something decreases our level of alertness, while looking straight ahead or up increases our level of alertness.
- Looking down at something can be exploited to reduce our level of alertness, while looking straight ahead or up increases our level of alertness.
@timm
How to Learn Faster by Using Failures, Movement & Balance
Achieving Adult Brain Plasticity: The Role of Hunting for Food According to Newsen Lab Study
AI Key Takeaways
- Adults can have as much plasticity as young people if they are hunting for food.
- Plasticity in adults is slow unless there is a need for it.
- Contingency learning can increase plasticity in adults.
- The Newsen lab found that adjusting one's visual world for food can increase plasticity in adults.
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