To maximize working memory and focus for deep work, ensure your phone is completely outside of the room where you are working, as its mere presence, even if face down or in a bag, can impair cognitive performance.
For critical decisions, intentionally slow down and take ample time to gather information, as haste increases errors; use calming strategies like breathing or a long-term mantra to reduce arousal and improve decision quality.
To improve focus, make your environment ‘harder’ for distraction by physically putting devices away or making them less appealing, such as turning your phone screen to monochrome to reduce its attractiveness as a source of information.
To prepare for cognitive work, consciously adjust your attentional ‘aperture’: focus on a small, specific point to narrow your attention for focused tasks, or engage in broad, panoramic vision to promote creative exploration.
To train attention, try closing your eyes and thinking in complete sentences, engaging in an internal conversation with yourself while constantly redirecting your focus to stay on a single thought train.
To improve communication, trust, and teamwork in relationships or groups, actively foster behavioral and physiological synchrony (e.g., mirroring movements, shared gaze), as this alignment predicts stronger bonds and better decision-making.
To build rapport and synchrony with others, especially those you are out of sync with or don’t know well, make time and space for intentional, deep conversations using structured question sets.
Engage in consensual, pleasant social touch (like grooming or gentle contact at body temperature) to stimulate oxytocin release, an intrinsic mechanism for building and strengthening social bonds and combating isolation.
When you or your team are fatigued, offload critical decisions to an external, non-fatigued person or system, as fatigue causes a shift towards prioritizing speed over accuracy, leading to more mistakes.
Entrepreneurs and innovators should build teams with complementary strengths to ensure that while they leverage their creative and exploratory tendencies, they also have support for necessary focus and execution.
To overcome loss aversion and encourage taking beneficial risks, visually emphasize potential gains (e.g., larger font, brighter display) over potential losses, as this directs attention and shifts decision-making.
If someone pressures you to make a decision very quickly, especially if it’s not a clear emergency, view it as a potential scam, as urgency is often a tactic used to bypass rational deliberation.
To support overall health, digestion, immune system, mood, and mental focus, ensure you are getting all necessary vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients, potentially through a comprehensive daily supplement.
Get comprehensive lab tests to gain insights into your bodily health, including heart, hormones, immune function, and nutrient levels, and to detect toxins, which can then inform targeted health adjustments.
If you have elevated mercury, limit tuna consumption, increase leafy green intake, and consider supplementing with NAC (N-acetylcysteine) to support glutathione production and detoxification.
Consider engaging in professional therapy for overall health, as it provides a trusted rapport, emotional support, directed guidance, and useful insights for various life issues.
Before any cardiovascular or resistance training, perform 100 jumping jacks to significantly diminish the chance of injury, likely by raising core body temperature.
Opt for cookware made with materials like pure titanium, as PFASs and forever chemicals (like Teflon) found in many nonstick pans have been linked to hormone disruption, gut microbiome issues, and fertility problems.
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