Headspace Studio.

Hi, I'm Dr. Sahara Yousef.

Welcome to Radio Headspace.

I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and a lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

I'll be guest hosting Radio Headspace this week, and I am so happy to be here.

My work is all about using science to help you get your most important work done in less time

with less stress.

I also founded a training and consulting firm called Becoming Superhuman with fellow neuroscientist

Lucas Miller, who's hosting the show next week.

This week, we'll explore how neuroscience can improve your life and discuss some powerful

strategies that you can use to quickly get better focus.

Today, I'll talk about what you may be getting wrong about productivity and what

becoming superhuman actually means.

The concept and the ethos of becoming superhuman,

first it was grounded in the research that was being done.

We could see that there was just so much untapped potential

and how the brain can actually change for the better.

We can raise the roof on basic cognitive functions

like our attention span, our memory, our information processing speed. All of these things are

malleable. If your cognitive function is not serving you to some extent, you are in control of that,

and that was a super aspirational and uplifting thing to experience... is not serving you to some extent. You are in control of that.

And that was a super aspirational and uplifting thing

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