Ensure adequate hydration with electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium) for optimal brain and body function, as even slight dehydration diminishes cognitive and physical performance and these electrolytes are vital for cell function, especially neurons.
Dissolve one packet of Element in 16-32 ounces of water and drink it first thing in the morning. Also, consume Element dissolved in water during any physical exercise to maintain proper hydration and electrolyte balance.
Engage in meditation, Yoga Nidra, or Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) sessions, even for just 10 minutes, to greatly restore cognitive and physical energy and place the brain and body into different states.
Take Athletic Greens (AG1) once or twice daily to provide probiotics essential for gut health, which profoundly impacts the brain, immune system, and overall biological function, and to meet foundational nutritional needs.
Actively strive to ‘know thyself’ by understanding your values, ‘be thyself’ by resisting external pressures, and ’love thyself’ as a learned skill, integrating these principles into your daily life for personal development.
Pay attention to the feeling of ’ease’ as an internal compass, indicating when you are on a path that truly makes sense for you and aligns with your authentic self, guiding your life choices.
Cultivate an informal meditation practice for 5-10 minutes each morning with coffee to transition into consciousness. Additionally, consider an Ashtanga-related yoga practice for its physical, spiritual, meditative, and breath-focused benefits.
Wander through different experiences and fields, even if it feels accidental, to discover what you are good at and where you can make a significant difference, leading to the identification of your life’s mission.
Do not engage in visually demanding tasks like reading texts while driving, as it distracts the visual system from detecting dangerous objects and can lead to accidents, unlike hands-free phone calls which use different brain pathways.
As a teacher or mentor, observe body language and emotional cues in others to detect when they ‘drop into ease,’ which indicates that advice or information resonates and makes sense to them, enhancing effective guidance.
When introducing novel or augmented sensory information to the brain, such as increased visual resolution, do so gradually in incremental steps to allow for neural plasticity and adaptation, rather than implementing abrupt, overwhelming changes.
Design neural interfaces to be ‘smart’ by enabling them to record, stimulate, and learn the specific electrical properties and cell types of the surrounding neural circuitry. This allows for precise, adaptive communication with the brain, rather than crude, non-specific stimulation.
In the future, harnessing distinct retinal cell types to deliver different visual information in parallel (e.g., text to one type, motion to another) could potentially enable new forms of safe visual multitasking that are currently impossible.