Focus on Being Unfocused and Train Your Brain For Success - Srini Pillay : 454
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Could focusing on your goals actually hurt your outcome? Harvard Psychiatrist Srini Pillay thinks it is more effective for your brain to unfocus from time to time. He suggests you take a nap, doodle on your papers, and most importantly, Daydream! In this episode you get his four points on why you should focus on being unfocused!
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:06.0 | Music |
| 0:09.0 | Will it prove radio, a state of high performance? |
| 0:13.0 | Today's episode is a lot of fun and you're going to want to listen through all the way to the end |
| 0:18.0 | because you'll hear everything you might want to know about daydreaming, |
| 0:23.0 | about dutling, about strategies that can work in the office or in a classroom |
| 0:29.0 | or even with young kids in order to encourage ingenuity and creativity |
| 0:34.0 | and some of those soft mind skills that you might not expect |
| 0:38.0 | from a guy who's very, very well studied in neuroscience and actually lectures at Harvard |
| 0:43.0 | So enjoy the conversation, it's going to be worth your time |
| 0:47.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey |
| 0:50.0 | Today's cool fact of the day is that transparent solar tech could be the future of energy |
| 0:57.0 | They just came out with some see-through solar materials that you can stick on your window |
| 1:01.0 | which means that every glass building could filter out some light |
| 1:06.0 | and put as much power into the power grid as rooftop solar units, which is amazing |
| 1:13.0 | There's just one problem |
| 1:15.0 | We never think about second order effects here |
| 1:18.0 | They can tune these materials to pick up just ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths of light |
| 1:24.0 | and turn those into electricity, but your body requires ultraviolet and near-infrared light |
| 1:29.0 | So what we're thinking about doing in order to save electricity is |
| 1:34.0 | We're thinking about filtering out light that your body needs in order to put it into your iPhone |
| 1:38.0 | or wherever the heck else you're going to put that electricity |
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