Summary of Elizabeth R. Ricker's Smarter Tomorrow

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Elizabeth R. Ricker's Smarter Tomorrow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Ricker distills insights from dozens of interviews and hundreds of research studies from around the world. She tests almost everything on herself, whether it’s nicotine, video games, meditation, or a little-known beverage from the Pacific islands. Some experiments fail hilariously—but others transform her cognition. She is able to sharpen her memory, increase her attention span, boost her mood, and clear her brain fog. By following Ricker’s system, you’ll uncover your own boosts to mental performance, too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638159919

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Scientific self-help embraces measurement and accountability. It assumes that individual differences abound, and that the process of trying something, discovering that it doesn't work for you, and then trying something else is the best way to find what does work.

#2

Scientific self-help empowers you to be open-minded and discerning. It gives you the ability to try out any advice, technique, or tool and see if it works for you. You may even be able to test the tips and advice in self-help books, apps, or tools you already have.

#3

The third self-help method is neurohacking, which is when a person intentionally modifies his or her environment to try and change the way their brain works.

#4

Curiosity is the main fuel for neurohacking. It can be applied to both the physical and mental realm.

#5

A computer scientist named Roger Craig became the highest single-day earner on the quiz show Jeopardy! in 2010, thanks to his use of a memory technique known as spaced repetition. Craig saved himself hours of studying by using this technique, which he learned about from a book he read years earlier.

#6

If you’re interested in biohacking, check out these communities. The NeuroTechX community was founded by a group of North American university students in 2015, and the Quantified Self community was started in 2007 by Wired magazine founding editors Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly.

#7

The author’s friend, Steven Jonas, was diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder. He began monitoring his heart rate variability, which revealed that he had low HRV. He learned that certain people’s emails could set his HRV off, and began religiously avoiding those people. He also learned that breathing exercises helped relieve stress.

#8

Self-tracking and self-experimentation are easier than ever before. You can do this with the help of smartphone apps, free spreadsheet tools, and online communities.

#9

The more we know about our bodies and how they work, the more capable we are of treating ourselves. This was made clear by the story of Mark Drangsholt, who was able to identify that he had brain fog, and figure out that it was caused by narrowed blood vessels in his brain.

#10

The four principles of neurohacking are: design self-experiments, pick tests and interventions carefully, never assume a self-experiment will generalize, and work with a buddy - a co-adventurer who is also on your own neurohacking path.

#11

The first step towards becoming