To improve the way our minds function, a science educator recommends we spend a little time each day 'neurohacking'
Working at home has led to widescale experimentation in productivity. Many workers, no longer tied to central offices, are trying new schedules, locations, routines and work-life arrangements. But this has been a haphazard process, nothing like a controlled scientific study.
At the outset, Ms. Ricker contrasts her project with traditional self-help, in which one copies an authority’s example and doesn’t measure the results. Instead, she offers what she calls “The Neurohacker’s Creed”: Don’t assume the same thing works for everyone, pick “hacks” and evaluations carefully, and find a partner so you can help each other. There’s also “the neurohacker’s ladder,” F-S-T-R: Focus on your goals, select an experiment, train and reflect on the outcome and next steps.
Similar organizing structures permeate her upbeat book, which reads like a combination of a science book , a workbook , a memoir and an encouraging email from a smart friend . “Smarter” can mean lots of things. Ms. Ricker interprets the term ecumenically, tackling four broad categories of improvement. First, there’s “the new IQ,” by which she means executive functioning, a combination of working memory , inhibition and mental flexibility . Second, “the new EQ,” or emotional self-regulation—the ability to monitor, assess and modify your feelings. Third, memory and learning, whether for events, facts or skills. Fourth, creativity.
After looking into dozens of candidate interventions, Ms. Ricker elaborates on seven types of hacks: exercise, light exposure, neurofeedback , computer games, pills , running a small amount of electricity through your brain and placebos. .
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