337: Neurohacking, productivity & why you should work out in the morning | MIT & Harvard-trained brain researcher Elizabeth Ricker

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Elizabeth Ricker: “Brains are not well-designed for trying to function on too little sleep.” Ricker, a neurohacker and MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to upgrade your brain in 15 minutes a day, plus: - How to make habits actually stick - Why women are more productive in a warmer temperature - How to boost creativity - The best type of exercise for cognitive performance - Why you should track your micros, not just your macros Referenced in the episode: - Ricker's book, Smarter Tomorrow. - Download Cronometer. - Carol Dweck, Ph.D., on developing a growth mindset. - A study showing aerobic and resistance exercise together can boost brain power. - Apps to track your mental health through typing patterns such as BiAffect, Mindstrong Health, and Neurametrix. - Correction: Around minute 29:00, there is a mention of coffee and l-theanine, but that should have been "caffeine." A cup of coffee has around 100 mg of caffeine. If you are going to use l-theanine and caffeine, please do not take this as a literal dosage recommendation and instead consult a doctor to find a safe dose for your personal health profile. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
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0:43.6	performance is not guaranteed. Elizabeth Ricker is a sought-after neurohacking expert across
0:51.8	Silicon Valley venture capital firms, technology startups and schools. Elizabeth received her
0:58.0	undergrad degree in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT and her graduate degree in mind,
1:04.2	brain and education from Harvard. In college, she worked in the neuroscience lab of a Nobel prize
1:10.1	winner and today she's here to chat about her new book titled Smarter Tomorrow. How 15 minutes
1:17.1	of neurohacking can help you work better, think faster and get more done.
1:26.4	Elizabeth, welcome. Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. So you start your books
1:32.9	smarter tomorrow. I love this is so interesting talking about the self-help industry.
1:38.0	It's industry in the billions. I've read a ton of self-help books. I'm sure our listeners
1:42.8	have read a ton of self-help books, but does it really help the self-help really help? And I
1:48.5	think it's interesting that you prefer the term scientific self-help. So can you walk us through
1:53.9	the difference between self-help and scientific self-help and tell us the self-help really self-help?
2:00.4	Yeah. So it's a funny distinction and I think it's worth kind of pulling back a little bit
2:06.5	about how I'm thinking about self-help versus scientific self-help. So first off, there's a lot
2:10.7	in common between the two. So self-help seems like at least to me to be about self-empowerment,
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