Hack #72: Overclock Your Brain

In some situations, the brain is performance-limited by the available fuel. Increase the fuel and you can temporarily get a performance boost.

Additions and Suggestions

The smart drug page definitely needs work. This page should be merged with it though. If you are writing about fuel alone, the only thing you can say is: drink glucose. Of course, amino acids and necessary constituents of neurotransmitters could be called "fuel," but they are not, simply because they provide signaling and building blocks, not energy.

Discussion

Free-form discussion of this hack goes here.

Links

• You can read the full text of this hack at oreilly.com.
• "Fuel for Thought" by Andrew Scholey: http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/thepsychologist/search-the-psychologist-online.cfm?fuseaction=inc_getFile&ID=200&Publication_ID=1

Errata

Errata goes here.

Hack Author

VaughanBell

Return to Main Book Page

This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.