329. Hyperefficient with Dr. Mithu Storoni (Part 2)

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Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

About the Guest: Dr. Mithu Storoni is a University of Cambridge-trained physician, neuroscience researcher, and ophthalmic surgeon. Renowned for her expertise in mental performance and stress management, she advises multinational corporations on optimizing brain function. She is the author of the forthcoming book "Hyperefficient," which explores revolutionary concepts in maximizing the quality of cognitive outputs. Episode Summary: Greg McKeown interviews Dr. Mitu Storoni about her upcoming book "Hyperefficient" and the concept of optimizing your brain for hyper-efficiency, discussing the physiological impacts of stress and how to manage mental performance effectively. Dr. Storoni introduces the concept of three mental gears—gear one (relaxed and daydreaming), gear two (focused and attentive), and gear three (hyper-vigilant and distracted). She discusses how different environments and personal habits influence which gear our brain operates in, stressing the importance of maintaining a balance to achieve peak mental performance. They examine how information overload and constant stimuli can push us into less productive states and the importance of understanding your "gear personality" to enhance productivity. Dr. Storoni provides actionable insights on creating a work and home environment that facilitates entering gear two, optimizing moments of creativity, and managing the balance of stimulation and relaxation. Key Takeaways: Understanding Mental Gears: Learn about the three mental gears—gear one (relaxed), gear two (focused), and gear three (hyper-vigilant)—and their impact on productivity. - Information Overload: Discover the detrimental effects of fragmented information and the importance of understanding your "gear personality" to manage mental performance. - Optimal Work Environment: Tips on modifying your work and home environment to help shift your brain into gear two for optimal performance. - Role of Deadlines and Stress: How deadlines and uncertainty can push you into less productive mental states and strategies to mitigate this. - Daily Routine Adjustments: Insights on how small changes in your daily routine can enhance mental efficiency and creativity.` Notable Quotes: "Information is the root cause of uncertainty, because the information we're receiving now is uninvited and is fragmented." -Dr. Mithu Storoni "When we are receiving fragmented information, we have an immediate urge, and it's fragmented in a very particular way so that it's not completely blank." -Dr. Mithu Storoni "So this is a spectrum. So what this essentially means is that in any environment, our brains are going to react to the same environment in different ways." -Dr. Mithu Storoni Resources: Visit Mithu's website. Follow Mithu on X and LinkIn. Preorder Mithu's book Hyperefficient Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

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0:56.2	apply that in every possible way and today we have a most interesting guest.
1:01.8	Dr. Meitu Storoni, who's a University of Cambridge
1:04.7	trained physician, neuroscience researcher, and Othalmic surgeon, that's an eye
1:09.6	surgeon for the rest of us. She advises multinational corporations on mental performance and stress management.
1:15.1	She's the author of the forthcoming book, Hyper-efficient. That's an interesting idea, hyper-efficient.
1:21.4	It caught my attention for a few different ways. The
1:23.8	subtitle is, optimize your brain to transform the way you work. So, Right now at time of this conversation we have to U.S. elections,
1:59.6	absolutely consuming the conversation.
2:03.7	The sense of polarization is tangibly greater
2:08.1	than in the 25 years that I have lived in the United States. I just read someone describe it that we're in a cold civil
2:17.5	war right now. So you don't see an actual civil war, thank goodness, but that there's a cold civil war going on.
2:26.0	At the time of conversation, there's been riots going on in the UK, and there's massive arguments about whether the response has been
2:35.8	right or whether it's been you know one-sided and so on I say all of that because it really occurs to me that what if we're not nearly as
2:47.2	divided as we think we are? You know like what if it is a function of the medium that we're engaging in and the rules of that
2:57.2	medium which are designed almost entirely for a single digit measurement, which is attention, engagement.
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