Update: Addressing unproductive thoughts and emotional and cognitive overload in the AI era

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing this time a range of resources, views and tips to empow­er our minds, get past pro­cras­ti­na­tion, nav­i­gate cog­ni­tive enhancers, and more. #1. Let’s get past pro­cras­ti­na­tion by address­ing emo­tion­al and cog­ni­tive over­load #2. Five tech­niques to self-reg­u­late intru­sive, unpro­duc­tive thoughts #3. Pros and Cons of using four nootropics–caffeine,…

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Pros and Cons of using four nootropics–caffeine, creatine, L‑theanine, Ashwaghanda–as cognitive enhancers

Humans have long been search­ing for a “mag­ic elixir” to make us smarter, and improve our focus and mem­o­ry. This includes tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese med­i­cine used thou­sands of years ago to improve cog­ni­tive func­tion. Now we have nootrop­ics, also known as smart drugs, brain boost­ers or cog­ni­tive enhancers. You can buy these gum­mies, chew­ing gums, pills…

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Brain Health: Physical or Mental Exercise?

Our fel­low blog­ger Jere­my over at Psy­Blog has writ­ten a thought­ful post com­par­ing the val­ue of a num­ber of cog­ni­tive enhanc­ing tools. His over­all ver­dict? “The evi­dence for exer­cise boost­ing cog­ni­tive func­tion is head-and-shoul­ders above that for brain train­ing, drugs, nutri­tion­al sup­ple­ments and med­i­ta­tion. Sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly, on the cur­rent evi­dence, exer­cise is the best way to…

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