Editing CoffeeForProductivity

= Coffee for productivity = In my personal experience, drinking coffee can be an enormous boon to productivity. See FortuneCookies for some humorous testaments to this. If you've never drunk coffee, but want to try, I must warn you that it's addictive. However, it's not as addictive as a lot of drugs, and even addicts find it harmless enough that they serve it by the tens of gallons at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Narcotics Anonymous, and so on. //[[http://www.librarything.com/work/359622|The Caffeine Advantage]]// is a superb book that explains dosages and the "paradoxical" effects of caffeine. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9BEb0Wmb_I|"Coffee Achievers" commercials]] from 1984 tried to promote coffee as both a stimulant and a "calm moment". It seems silly, but it has a basis in science, as //The Caffeine Advantage// explains. (It has to do with the [[WikiPedia:Yerkes-Dodson_law|Yerkes-Dodson Curve]].) I recommend coffee rather than cola or caffeine tabs. Tea makes a nice substitute on occasion, but does not help with productivity as much. Both coffee and tea contain chemicals other than caffeine. Tea has more of a "cheerful" feel; coffee has more of a "go get 'em" feel. Some people think this explains much of the difference between British and U.S. national temperaments. If you don't like coffee, I recommend starting out with some nice flavored drinks from Starbucks. Caramel macchiato tastes great. Be sure to drink your coffee while it's hot; it tastes like crap if you let it get lukewarm. Strangely enough, good iced coffee tastes pretty good. All my opinion, of course. [[Mindhacker]] contains a hack about how to acquire a taste. Of course, nothing will ever make you superhumanly productive, 100% of the time. But coffee probably will boost your productivity significantly. A great mathematician, Paul Erdos, once said, [[http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2007/08/paul-erds.html|"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."]] He typically worked 19-hour days. --RonHaleEvans A recent article made a defense of coffee with respect to its health benefits: [[http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/the-case-for-drinking-as-much-coffee-as-you-like/265693/|The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like]]. --[[mwfogleman]]

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