Optimize Your Learning & Creativity With Science-Based Tools
In this episode, I describe how to access focused learning bouts, creative states, and the underlying neural circuitry involved. I frame this in the context of our daily 24-hour cycle in order to make...
22 Feb 20211h 27min
How to Learn Faster by Using Failures, Movement & Balance
In this episode, I discuss how we can use specific types of behavior to change our brain, both for sake of learning the movements themselves and for allowing us to learn non-movement-based information...
15 Feb 20211h 25min
How to Focus to Change Your Brain
This episode introduces neuroplasticity—which is how our brain and nervous system learn and acquire new capabilities. I describe the differences between childhood and adult neuroplasticity, the chemic...
8 Feb 20211h 27min
Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget
This episode is all about the two major kinds of dreams and the sorts of learning and unlearning they are used for. I discuss REM-associated dreams that control emotional learning and their similarity...
1 Feb 20211h 16min
How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness
In this episode, I discuss a simple and reliable measurement called your "temperature minimum" that you can use to rapidly adjust to new time zones when traveling and to offset the bad effects of noct...
25 Jan 20211h 49min
Using Science to Optimize Sleep, Learning & Metabolism
“Office Hours” — In this episode, I answer your most commonly asked questions about science-supported tools for accessing more alertness, better learning, and quality sleep. I also cover when to exerc...
18 Jan 20211h 41min
Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake
Today's episode provides a host of information on what makes us sleepy, sleep soundly, and feel awake and alert. It covers a broad range of tools for anyone wishing to improve their sleep and wakeful ...
11 Jan 20211h 21min
How Your Brain Works & Changes
Today’s episode provides an introduction to how the nervous system works to create sensations, perceptions, emotions, thoughts and behaviors, as well as how we can change our nervous system—a phenomen...
4 Jan 20211h 1min
