/big/ - Brain Improvement General

[Anonymous No.12340510]

What do you do for your brain, /sci/? Do you have any theories or general ideas about maximizing human cognition?

>Mental exercise
Mathematics, playing/making music, strategy games/chess, meditation, reading, programming, visualization, etc.. What do you do and why? How does it affect your cognition? Do you have a routine?

>Nootropics
Modafinil, alpha GPC, phenibut, noopept, LSD, lion's mane, citicoline, huperzine A, MCT oil, the list goes on and on and on. There are hundreds of supplements and drugs out there that help you get the most out of your mind. Do you use any? Do you have a stack? Do you prefer nootropics that improve things like neurogenesis and connectivity (long-term), or direct cognitive performance enhancers (short-term)?

>Neuroscience
Neuroplasticity, important brain regions for problem-solving and decision-making, the trade-offs of multi-tasking, flow states, consciousness as a bottleneck for information, latest research, etc.

>Lifestyle
Physical exercise, diet (do you even artichoke?), lifestyle, daily organization (do you follow a routine or your intuition, are you chaotic or organized?), effects of fasting, interior decoration (cluttered or organized, lots of plants or few plants, clean house/dirty house), effects of intermittent fasting, etc.

[Anonymous No.12340808]

there is a certain iq range which is undesirable, for me it was 135- I lowered it to 120 with heavy drinking and feel much better about myself now.

[Anonymous No.12340818]

Strenuous physical exercise is basically the best thing you can do. Occasional usage of psychedelics might do something too. Anything else is degen cope

[Anonymous No.12341012]

>>12340818
Hold this stance for as long as you can, start with 1x a week and build it up to doing it every morning every workday

The brain gains are insane

[Anonymous No.12341173]

>>12340808
Based
>>12340818
Cringe

[Anonymous No.12341374]

>>12340818
cringe
>>12340808
based

[Anonymous No.12341380]

>>12340510
eat blueberries

[Anonymous No.12341412]

>>12341380
Vaccinium myrtillus in particular is godlike

[Anonymous No.12341425]

>>12340818
>Become autistically obsessed with hexagons?
They're just so aesthetic

[Anonymous No.12341627]

>>12341425
Cells in the human visual area form orientation-preference columns in a hexagonal lattice pattern

Psychedelics cause uninhibited signalling for cells in early stages of visual processing, which accounts for the various geometric patterns observed during psychedelic experiences.

humans literally see how their visual areas process retinal input as their hallucinations on psychedelics.

[Anonymous No.12341636]

>>12341627

[Anonymous No.12341742]

>>12341627
I have a vague theory that counting using hexagons as unit is the best way to think about numbers

[Anonymous No.12341900]

>>12341742
how/why?

[Anonymous No.12341914]

>fullbody weightlifting 3 times a week
>cardio on rest days, HIIT
>stretching, wim hof meditation
>IIFYM diet with vegetables
>reading books, writing a diary
>playing an instrument, singing
>creative art outlet, sketching
>bonding with nature, hiking
>taking care of a pets, plants
>practice speaking in new language
>socializing with gf, friends
>part time job, that im passionate about

[Anonymous No.12341944]

>>12340510
Anyone tried earthing/grounding against neuroinflammation?

https://file.scirp.org/Html/14-8203393_58836.htm

[Anonymous No.12343418]

>>12340510
Being wealthy
Owning physical property
Being at the top of the dominance hierarchy
Being free

[Anonymous No.12343439]

>>12341914
>passionate
>for wage slaving

[Anonymous No.12343474]

>>12341914
wagie wagie back to your cagie

[Anonymous No.12343761]

>>12343418
What if you need wealth to begin with to get wealthy?

[Anonymous No.12343857]

>>12343761
So called chicken and egg problem. Your what if is an assumption. To get out of the chicken and egg problem, you have to make a different assumption and test it. If the test fails, try another assumption, etc.

[Anonymous No.12344605]

>>12343439
>>12343474
working just a little bit helps to lessen the depression, you like meet different people, help them and shit

[Anonymous No.12344646]

>>12340510
all i do is train my reflexes and the exercises memory athletes do, everything else is pseudointellectual tier

[Anonymous No.12344701]

>>12340510
>programming
why's this board such a compsci circlejerk

>nootropics
any of this shit actually useful? I could see shrooms or acid every blue moon maybe but not sure what else

>diet and exercise
patrician tier

[Anonymous No.12344875]

So funny how people in this thread make wild claims without any evidence

[Anonymous No.12345982]

>>12340510
what are some /big/ approved strategy games?

[Anonymous No.12346139]

>>12345982
Age of Empires 2

[Anonymous No.12346227]

Saturated fat fucks with your blood brain barrier, common sources include beef, dairy, coconut oil. Drop it and replace with polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. Examples of foods shown to increase memory/ cognition include Walnuts, hazelnuts, avocados, almonds, chia seeds, salmon, tuna.
The type of fat you eat, finds its way into your brain and is used in its structure. I implore you to remove saturated fat from your diet.

Flavenoids are compounds which keep your brain from slowly dying. Found in blueberries, turmeric, raw cacao and dried oregano. Just as important as neurogenic supplements, because what don't lose is obviously a net gain as we strive toward beating depression, unclear thinking, memory loss, bad working memory, aphantasia, autism.

Bonus tip, eat organic produce as much as you can because not all pesticides wash off and some are shown to scramble your DNA while others are specifically neurotoxic. High pesticide foods include coffee, seeds and nuts.

The world is full of fat and stupid people not because of genes but because of food poison. Fix your diet, see the results and you will understand why I think so.

[Anonymous No.12346503]

>>12346227
Coconut oil is full of MCTs, godlike for the brain overall due to increased glucose utilization, both for short-term performance increases and beneficial for long-term development by improving a host of processes by proxy.

[Anonymous No.12347226]

>>12344605
while getting your labor abused so the CEO can get rich off of your back

[Anonymous No.12349264]

>>12347226
Jobs are the opposite of brain gains. They condition you in very unhealthy ways.

Long term 9-5 job 5 days a week probably degrades the brain more than depression or drug use

[Anonymous No.12349970]

What do I think of it, /big/?

[Anonymous No.12350188]

>>12349970
It'll 100% do stuff but it's better to make your own stacks.

There is a lot of variability in how people react to certain plants/supplements and in different individuals the different substances/plants might conflict with one another

[Anonymous No.12350568]

>>12344875
>evidence
why the homophilia?

[Anonymous No.12350906]

>>12340510
>flow states
What are these?

[Anonymous No.12350911]

>>12340510
>huperzine A
Fun fact: this helps me to cum faster and gets me hornier. Is it the same for you guys?

[Anonymous No.12351155]

>>12350906
>Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
>Merging of action and awareness
>A loss of reflective self-consciousness
>A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
>A distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered
>Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience

In any given moment, there is a great deal of information made available to each individual. Psychologists have found that one's mind can attend to only a certain amount of information at a time. According to Csikszentmihályi's , that number is about "110 bits of information per second". However, when one is in the flow state, they are completely engrossed with the one task at hand and, without making the conscious decision to do so, lose awareness of all other things: time, people, distractions, and even basic bodily needs. According to Csikszentmihályi, this occurs because all of the attention of the person in the flow state is on the task at hand; there is no more attention to be allocated.

[Anonymous No.12351202]

Dextro energy gum + nicotine gum. A 5 minute problem to give my brain a stretch, then working with a pomodoro timer. I get so focused that I don't hear my timer go off.

I've been wanting to try modafinil.

[Anonymous No.12351326]

>>12341012
>The brain gains are insane
why?

[Anonymous No.12351350]

>>12340808
>I lowered it to 120
I think is hard to lower that much.. you should be drinking all day for months

[Anonymous No.12351398]

>>12351326
I have no idea why. I question and research everything, every food I eat, thing I do, workout I do, whatever.

But Shaolin kung fu just fucking works. There IS tons of research on it but it's still not clear why and how some of these motherfuckers can bend a wooden spear with their throats and shit through sheer physical and mental conditioning. But in the case of holding the stance and dealing with the pain, I believe that raising and passing through pain thresholds with this technique has a nootropic effect (both short term and long term, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18691725/).).

There is also some other stuff going on probably with these techniques involving blood flow, oxygenation and executive control (counter-intuitively, you need to keep breathing very calmly and controlledly, deep slow breaths, which becomes exponentially more impossible with every passing second). Ordinary people can usually barely hold it a minute, martial arts practitioners about 5 minutes and dedicated Shaolin monks can do it for about 2 hours.

But, I still have nothing solid on why it would do this. My gains thanks to it have been unreal, same goes for everyone who I got interested in it and started doing it, including academics. There is a ton of other shit like qi gong (basically the kung fu variant of yoga) that has great mental and physical benefits (joint flexibility, muscle stretching, and it's basically a physical meditation). Overall great stuff.

[Anonymous No.12351723]

>>12351398
>dealing with the pain
Isn't dealing with the pain be a stressful situation whch consooms resources?

[Anonymous No.12353906]

>>12351723
Generally yes, through the release of cortisol, but increasing pain tolerance lowers cortisol release.

[Anonymous No.12353941]

Any nootropics or brain nutrients recommendation for visualization?

[Anonymous No.12354008]

>>12353941
Generally psychedelics, or something like huperzine A + cannabis edible

[Anonymous No.12354136]

>>12346227
Fish like tuna and salmon often contain mercury and mercury fucks you up good, permanently.

[Anonymous No.12354367]

I really like to rape my brain by overstimulating it at least once a week.

For instance work on my thesis as long as I can, then play a strategy game (Supreme Commander:Forged Alliance or Age of Empires 2, both are godlike for brain gains), then learn some math and then try and learn a new song on the piano or the saxophone.

The day after I can barely even think straight, my brain will feel exactly like a muscle I've overworked in the gym. But week, after week, after week, my performance on these brain rapes improves, and in day to day life I notice I become less forgetful and even my memory is just overall above what I consider the norm, my decisionmaking is improved and especially the speed, also little things that usually take some kind of mental effort or focus take less mental effort and it leaves me with more mental energy throughout the day. Creativity is also enhanced week after week, one of my biggest problems with thesis writing is translating theoretical concepts/paradigms into proper academic text, it's so formulaic. Lately it's just happening by itself, I don't even have to try.

[Anonymous No.12354695]

>>12354367
Actually practicable information...

[Anonymous No.12354717]

>>12353941
I saw a literal anatomical star.
Do I have autism?

[Anonymous No.12355228]

>>12354717
Or you are just intelligent

[Anonymous No.12355300]

>>12340510
>do you even artichoke?
Someone redpill me on this in particular?

[Anonymous No.12355373]

>>12341914
But not everyone can build muscle

[Anonymous No.12355480]

>>12340510
>visualization
wtf is this?

[Anonymous No.12355487]

>>12340510
>phenibut
this shit ruins short term memory the same as benzos do

[Anonymous No.12355496]

>>12353941
>Generally psychedelics
I saw the n 5 and the 6 togheter

[Anonymous No.12355561]

>>12355300
Page with references: https://nootropicsexpert.com/artichoke-extract-luteolin/

[Anonymous No.12355565]

>>12340510
Simply force yourself to think, understand how you think via metacognition, understand your weaknesses, and develop metacognitive heuristics to combat these weaknesses overtime. A lot of people just don't know how to think. Making yourself sharper w/ drugs/supplements or lifestyle habits will not teach you how to properly think. Do some research on cognitive psychology if you want a helping hand. E.g. if you are shit at visualization, visualize increasingly complex primitives. if you are shit with rapid association force yourself to quickly make associations throughout the day. if you are shit at holistically seeing things, then work on apperception by creating a model of all your knowledge. etc etc yadda yadda.

[Anonymous No.12355860]

>>12355565
>self-improvement
Is there a bigger cope?

[Anonymous No.12356195]

>>12355480
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_visualization

[Anonymous No.12357826]

bump

[Anonymous No.12357947]

>>12355228
Probably not

[Anonymous No.12358001]

>>12340510
Getting married and having children.

[Anonymous No.12358006]

>>12340510
Being outside. Nietzsche walked 5 hours a day.
>“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.”

[Anonymous No.12358075]

>>12358006
>>“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.”
this is a very beatiful quote

[Anonymous No.12358076]

>>12340510
Play sudoku and read

[Anonymous No.12358111]

nootropics fucked me up so badly especially choline ones like alpha gpc. I didn't know I was choline sensitive and all the normie retards who aren't choline sensitive kept saying it was good shit. It sent me into a year long depression and I nearly failed all my classes in those two semesters. Every other noot was a scam with no noticeable effects.

[Anonymous No.12358141]

>>12358111
>nootropics fucked me up so badly especially choline ones
>especially choline ones
Why?

[Anonymous No.12358143]

>>12358141
who knows. All I know is that choline fucks me up badly and I'm not the only one.

[Anonymous No.12358433]

>>12358143
>who knows. All I know is that choline fucks me up badly and I'm not the only one.
I red on line that acetylcoline is implicated in a lot of cognitive functions

[Anonymous No.12358442]

>>12346227
Are you even going to explain how saturated fats fuck up your blood-brain barrier? It didn't seem to be an issue when we evolved from literal monkeys to human beings thanks to meat.

[Anonymous No.12358465]

>>12354136
>mercury fucks you up
how?

[Anonymous No.12358638]

>>12358465
www.medicalnewstoday. com/articles/320563#complications

[Anonymous No.12358830]

>>12358111
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213249/
Try fasting, probiotics or eating vegan to change your gut flora and reduce the number of TMAO forming bacteria.

[Anonymous No.12358861]

Anyone else feel like they're getting dumber as they age? Before I was able to hold my own intellectually but now I find it difficult to keep up. Also, I'm forgetting everything I've learned. How can I school people if my brain dumps previously acquired knowledge into the trash.

[Anonymous No.12358899]

>>12358861
Look up Andrew Cutler's oral chelation protocol

[Anonymous No.12358915]

>>12358638
Mercury in seafood is no where near as toxic as other forms of it are

[Anonymous No.12358932]

>>12358915
>80% to 90% of organic mercury in a human body is from fish and shellfish intake, and 75% to 90% of organic mercury existing in fish and shellfish is methylmercury.
>While the absorption rate of inorganic mercury is not more than 2% to 38%, organic mercury is absorbed nearly completely and flows into the blood [10]. When people ingest methylmercury-contaminated food, methylmercury is separated by gastric acid. It combines with cysteine among the amino acids in the duodenum and almost 100% of the mercury is absorbed. Afterwards, it combines with the hemoglobin of red blood cells through the portal vein, is accumulated in the central nervous system, and causes disorders of the neurons [11].
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514465/

[Anonymous No.12359203]

How do I reduce the recovery period caused by the 'flow' state?

[Anonymous No.12359934]

>>12359203
Inositol is generally good for monoamine receptor homeostasis

[Anonymous No.12359975]

>>12359203
You mean flow cooldown?

[Anonymous No.12361431]

>>12359975
Well it does use up a lot of acetylcholine, dopamine and serotonin, so I think he means the depletion of those three

[Anonymous No.12361687]

>>12340510
Yeah I just be myself

[Anonymous No.12363170]

>>12340510
bumping, dont want this to die

[Anonymous No.12363242]

How do I stop procrastinating? Its probably my biggest personality flaw I procrastinate on literally everything including my own person hobbies and projects. I cant remember the last time I didn't wait for the last minute to turn in any school assignments. Its just so tempting to tell myself that I don't have to do y because I still have x amount of time to do it even though I know its much better to not wait for the last second. I'm literally procrastinating right now and I cant help it.
>>12353941
Why do people always say to close your eyes? Its like 10x easier for me to imagine things if i keep my eyes open

[Anonymous No.12363366]

Any good resources on getting a good and efficient sleep schedule?

[Anonymous No.12363473]

>>12363170
I make them regularly

>>12363242
If you are genuinely lazy, if you are really a lazy person down to the core, there is an easy way to deal with procrastination.

People who are genuinely lazy, deep down at the core of their being, will want to expend the least amount of effort possible in life. It's simple to come to a decision when you think about two things: the effort it takes to do something, or, the effort it takes to deal with the consequences of not doing it.

[Anonymous No.12363476]

>>12340510
Caffeine is a mild nootropic and boosts brain function. My ability to use mental imagery, visualization and spatial intelligence has massively increased since daily caffeine consumption.

[Anonymous No.12363658]

>>12363473
oh you make these? They're great, thanks.

[Anonymous No.12363719]

>>12363366
Research is very conflicted nowadays. Sleep therapy has always been dominated by pushing everyone into the 9-5 schedule, but recently it's edging towards a more individual approach. For instance if you have a sleep phase disorder you can't change it or treat it, you can only manage it.

What's efficient might be to actually let your sleep schedule be what your brain and body want it to be, as long as you make sure you don't drink caffeine late, have some sort of screen brightness/blue>red colour changer, things like that

[Anonymous No.12363771]

>>12363476
And will go back to normal if you get addicted to it.

[Anonymous No.12363924]

>>12358830
>vegan

fuck off redditcuck

[Anonymous No.12365571]

>>12363476
>>12363771

Coffee is such a fucking razor's edge. It's the most reliable, straightforward and easy to use and make nootropic and performance enhancer. It's so universal and balanced and if you've been off it for a while, that first coffee is always fucking godlike.

On the other hand it will get you addicted like fuck, drain your dopamine and energy levels to the point where your levels are so low that you'll be happy just for coffee to elevate you from being 50% BELOW your regular energy level to only being 20% below your regular energy level.

Fuck coffee tolerance. If that shit would work every day like it should we would be living in a utopia

[Anonymous No.12365613]

I drink copious quantities of alcohol. I'm hoping my brain gives up and someone gotta pull the plug on me :)

[Anonymous No.12365644]

>>12351155
Nice, how do you get better at that?

[Anonymous No.12365771]

>>12365644
Top 4:

1. Meditation
2. "Learning mindfulness" (explained below)
3. Yoga/Tai Chi/Qi Gong
4. Psychedelics

Flow is heavily dependent on procedural memory. Mindfulness is almost the polar opposite of the flow state so maybe it's not the right word, but whatever skill/activity you want to be able to reach flow states in, you have to be very conscious of what you're doing, your technique, how you're doing it. You become over-familiar with it to such a degree that things that would usually take explicit attention become automated, or semi-automated.

For any given task, the more of it is done with "implicit memory", the greater the chance you'll be able to enter a flow state with it and the better the flow state will be.

[Anonymous No.12365890]

>>12340510
>modafinil
>mfw on this for a sleep condition
It doesn't do shit for your attention, you're placeboing yourself. It just keeps you awake.

[Anonymous No.12365907]

>>12365890
And wakefullness is codename for attention.

Usually when you're not wake, you're just not paying attention.

[Anonymous No.12366073]

>>12365890
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800148/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12417966/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15738750/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485563/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24485800/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339412/

[Anonymous No.12366342]

>>12366073
btfo

[Anonymous No.12366628]

>>12366073
How does one go about finding Modafinil in the US? Your generic sketchy drug dealer doesn't even know what it is.

[Anonymous No.12366977]

>>12355860
cope? I guess you are a retard

[Anonymous No.12367062]

Chess or Go for brain improvement?

[Anonymous No.12367164]

>>12366628
You can get it OTC in Mexico.

[Anonymous No.12367226]

>>12353941
you just need more Loomis

[Anonymous No.12367273]

>>12367062
Both

[Anonymous No.12367288]

>>12340510
What is the best way to collect data related to your brain experiments?

[Anonymous No.12367309]

>be depressed, chronically tired, find it hard to think straight most of the time
>still get 160 on IQ tests

I'm sure online IQ tests are bullshit but still I feel like an 80 IQ baboon not Einstein level

[Anonymous No.12367327]

>>12367164
I don't live in Mexixo

[Anonymous No.12367538]

>>12367327
>I don't live in Mexixo
Then no high IQ pills for you, gringo.

[Anonymous No.12369326]

>>12367273
>just spend hours of your time just to be mediocre in two games

[Anonymous No.12369432]

>>12346227
For 2 million years our ancestors lived on raw meat, then for another half they lived on a cooked paleo diet. I think we're good with saturated fat, thanks. Enjoy your steady decline into premature ageing, vegan cretin.

[Anonymous No.12369437]

>>12363242
I have a theory that procrastination is caused by having something more important to do first. Your core values determine what's most important.

[Anonymous No.12369473]

>>12369432
Sorry carnistfags, you can't imagine a reality to fits your devilish diet.
https://youtu.be/cgmfRUwqGy4

[Anonymous No.12369897]

>>12369473
>imagine a reality
Because I care about facts, not fantasies.
>devilish diet
Demonizing natural behavior and your opponent.
>TIME
Appeal to authority.

Admittedly, there isn't enough paleolithic food for everyone in the world. However, the truth matters when deciding what sort of food to synthesize. You don't care about the truth, you care about parroting propaganda designed for the masses, like a good little commie.

[Anonymous No.12370375]

>>12346227
Cringe and bluepilled

[Anonymous No.12370753]

When will there be a cure for central sensitization syndrome?

[Anonymous No.12371744]

If I have an average diet, will swapping occasional potato chips for occasional mixed nuts improve my brain health?

[Anonymous No.12371761]

>>12371744
>occasional
no

[Anonymous No.12371802]

>>12353941
im bad at the color part but really good at the object part. like i can rotate it change it and do all sorts of stuff with it but the theres no sense to it like color or taste or smell

[Anonymous No.12373025]

>>12341380
I drink greentea every day. Will that help?

[Anonymous No.12373112]

>>12358111
Should I not take nootropics?

[Anonymous No.12373167]

>>12340510 anybody having experience with noopept? Any recommendations for it?

[Anonymous No.12373176]

>>12358111 had a similar experience with alpha GPC - tried it 2 time for a couple days and noticed depression which is why I stopped taking.

How come it has such a large effect even though it's about the dosage found in food?
And I tried a lower dose for a bit longer earlier and don't think it had the same effect; and cdp choline didn't have this effect either.

Any input on this?

[Anonymous No.12373310]

>>12340510
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Now that I have your attention, I'd like to tell you you're delusional for believing that you could ever possibly change your IQ positively (80% hereditary using Falcon's formula; Polderman - 50 years of twin studies) by brain training, let alone general intelligence (91% hereditary from Is there a dysgenic secular trend towards slowing simple
reaction time? Responding to a quartet of
critical commentaries).

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0000773

[Anonymous No.12373336]

>>12373310
IQ has more to do with Plasticity and learning rates, at which point at time T you have greater "Intellect" from person A to B.

But anyone who made a neural network knows that encoding and feature selection also factors the learning rate.

Hence seeing that we are self counscious and can select our own features IQ is infinitely adjustable and you can start with 50IQ and end in 150IQ if you pick the right features.

[Anonymous No.12373533]

is it normal to experience "brain fog" after 2 days without taking vitamin supplements?

[Anonymous No.12373612]

>>12359203
Deep relaxation such as in hypnotic induction

[Anonymous No.12374053]

>>12373310
>Implying the goal is to raise IQ rather than to optimize the brain's metabolism and connectivity

low IQ post

[Anonymous No.12374068]

>>12340510
>phenibut
Is phenibut good for brain improvement? I thought it was just a tame alcohol / benzo alternative, like isn't it just for anxiety relief?

[Anonymous No.12374398]

How can I get better at rote memorization? I have retard tier short term memory, and it's gotten pretty bad lately. So far, I'm working on my diet based on the consensus here, does anyone here have special study techniques??? I already do anki and active recall but it ain't doing it for me..

[Anonymous No.12374805]

>>12374398
Things that can possibly improve working memory are music and n-back. The latter is cringey though due to how meaningless the activity is.

For actual rote (long term not short term) memorization, spaced repetition. Read about Piotr's original pen and paper algorithm before using any software.

[Anonymous No.12375022]

>>12374398
do physical exercise daily. (both cardio and weight lifting)

[Anonymous No.12375095]

>>12374805
Music?? Like playing instrument? I play classical and electric bass right now and I had to quit my bands because I couldn't memorize the sheet music. I was so embarrassed.

>>12375022
I can't afford a gym membership, is a pull-up bar and tires good enough? I was looking into strongmen for a little bit

[Anonymous No.12375594]

>>12375095
>I can't afford a gym membership, is a pull-up bar and tires good enough? I was looking into strongmen for a little bit
yes

[Anonymous No.12375669]

>>12341627
does it mean that qbert was made by a methhead?

seems like crackpot theory either way

[Anonymous No.12376462]

>>12341742
Pretty sure bees don’t intend for the cells to be hexagonal and they just collapse into that shape. I think bees try to make circles

[Anonymous No.12376602]

>>12375095
It does sound like you have a legitimate problem. >memorize the sheet music
I assume you mean learn the music from the sheet music rather than actually memorize the sheet music then play the instrument from it. Most people do the former. If you're trying to do the latter then it sounds like your brain might work in a non standard way.

[Anonymous No.12376656]

i've found the GOAT non-drug NOOTROPIC method.

>train reaction time
>train working memory
>train spatial memory
>train eye-hand coordination
>increase processing speed
>increase object recognition speed
>high difficulty maps can make you go into the 'flow'
>ez light-medium intensity cardio that can be done for hours without boredom .

My reaction time has improved so much in just a few days after starting to play it. I'm also becoming ambidextrous. I generally feel way more sharper after only playing it for almost a week. effect was noticable almost immediately though. I can type way faster as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJpfeWBILe8

[Anonymous No.12377444]

>>12376656 pretty sure that's bs

[Anonymous No.12377715]

I messed up, please tell me how to fix my brain guys. I always watch youtube videos with at least two times normal speed, sometimes even more than 3x if someone is talking particulary slow. This of course took some time to get used to but after a couple of years this just feels very natural to me. But since I got so used to it I can't just focus on my teacher talking about anything in normal speed and my mind eventually drifts away. Now with corona I am luckily in a position where I can just play the video he recorded faster because all my lectures are at home anyways but I fear that I have permanently fucked up my brain.
I would like to keep the processing speed I have trained up though because it is really convenient, I just want to be able to listen to normal paces and not loose focus when someone makes a 2 second break between two sentences (this is of course a little overexaggerated but I usually do loose focus when someone speaks slowly for more than 10 minutes)

[Anonymous No.12377726]

>>12351350
Ethanol is a neurotoxin that destroys brain cells. I've never gotten drunk my entire life and am smarter for it.

[Anonymous No.12377891]

>>12363366
Here read though this.
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Science_of_sleep

There's a lot of good brain and learning improvement stuff on there in general, and i mean a lot, but sleep is probably the second most in depth topic on there.

[Anonymous No.12378055]

Who here meditates against brain fog?
I realize that a lot of my brain fog stems from stress, insecurity and performance anxiety.

>>12377715
Stop doing the thing that causes bad thing. Thing will become good when no longer used to bad thing.

[Anonymous No.12378120]

>>12377891
Thanks, I appreciate it mate.

[Anonymous No.12378348]

>>12378055
If by meditate, you mean deal with all those problems with a plan so they aren't just constant worries, then yes.

[Anonymous No.12378811]

Can I meditate while lying down? Also what are you meant to even think about? Apparently you can and you just think about anything but if that's the case I've been meditating every day for two hours my whole life because it takes me two hours to fall asleep because I can't stop thinking.

[Anonymous No.12380162]

>>12378811
Theres different kinds of meditation. I got for mindfulness (More awareness and focus in daily life) and 'quiet' meditation just for clarity and mental calm.

I generally sit and only lie down if I cant get comfy. I start with counting. One slow breath in and out is 1. Count to 10 and then back to 1. I do this because I need to focus on something to quiet my racing mind before I can do other meditation. When your mind trails off restart that particular count. Dont force or get upset when you dont even manage to get to 10 once, the first few times.

In mindfullness meditation generally you aim to try to take a bystander position in your head. You try to clear your mind. When thoughts pop up dont interact but try to let them fade out like youre not allowing them to take your focus. Here you can choose to take note of what kind of thought it is ("greed", "vanity", "work stress") and through this you could become aware of what type of emotions and thoughts plague you. Its important for this to choose to believe your thoughts and feelibgs arent you. That they are just bodily/brain responses to external events. This means you eventually separate yourself from those negative reactions and can choose to not let them guide you.

In my 'calming' meditation I literally try to not think at all. For someone like you who has a lot of rumination it will be hard and mindful or counting meditation would likely be an easier step up. Remember that calming meditation especially can occasionally (and especially when starting out) feel boring or useless or even annoying and uncomfortable.
In the long run, but even over a shorter period like a few weeks, daily proper meditation is worth it.

[Anonymous No.12380187]

>>12340510
I think most supplements are bs, I don't bother with them. My job is pretty mentally stimulating and my leisure time is spent creating art so my faculties (such as they are) get exercised. I do occasionally abuse my brain with booze. If I wind up with diminished a capacity for thought, I'll probably never notice.

[Anonymous No.12380372]

>>12353941
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this kind of test probably has more to do with how people would explain their mental process than what the mental process actually is. This test assumes that people are good at understanding their own mental processes and also capable of explaining them to others, and to be honest most people are not.
If we imagine that all people visualize the red star in the exact same way, it would still be possible for six people to give six different answers.
When we visualize something, it is obviously connected to things that we have experienced in the past (such as redness, and star shapes) but there must be something different if we can differentiate between seeing the red star on our computer screen and imagining the red star in our mind. We are recalling a past experience of red, and not having red in our present. It's different yet also the same, so some people might insist that it is 6 in their mind while others might feel that the opacity or emptiness in the others is a good way to represent the difference they are experiencing.

[Anonymous No.12380398]

>>12346227
wrong, it's PUFAs which are bad

[Anonymous No.12380716]

>>12376602
I do the former, it just takes me so damn long. If I got the sheet in front of me I can play but I'm totally dependant. I'm pretty sure I have some kind of mental issue..how do I go about get checked for add/adhd? My parents were told that I may have adhd by a optomologist but muh labels...

[Anonymous No.12381004]

>>12380398
based and peatpilled

[Anonymous No.12381014]

>>12346227
Holy shit PUFA's in the concentrations from modern diets is fucken poison, oxidized they are even worse.

Saturated fat is god tier. All new research I have read is indicating so. The only caveat being saturated fat in conjunction with simple carbs is also poison.

Read a book you retard nigger.

[Anonymous No.12381019]

>>12354136
Salmon is low in mercury you god damn sub human retard blackest retard gorilla nigger

[Anonymous No.12381026]

>>12367309
Cool story bro. You are a piece of shit, not because of your IQ but because you have achieved nothing of value in your life.

[Anonymous No.12381122]

>>12381019
Only Wild Alaskan salmon, you mongol.

[Anonymous No.12381159]

>>12381014
Anon, the PUFA scare is meat industry propaganda. While high pufa is potentially unhealthy because of oxidation, saturated fats are worse. None of the longest living population lived on a high saturated fat (okinawa, mediterranean, vegan adventists).

[Anonymous No.12381361]

>>12377715
Why would you? Just embrace it and quit lectures, just be a self learner

[Anonymous No.12381388]

>>12345982
Overcooked
Binding of isaac

[Anonymous No.12382002]

>>12381026
cool bro, u must be retarded if you feel the need to achieve anything valuable

[Anonymous No.12382899]

>>12381159
PUFA is *in* the fats of pigs and similar livestock, it's the result of the food livestock are raised in. PUFAs aren't some scare tactic, they are fat composition that is modern and very harmful
https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/

[Anonymous No.12382985]

>>12378811
the whole point is to stop your racing thoughts and let it sit unused. see me after class.

[Anonymous No.12382990]

>>12377726
I can have a beer and it actually kicks me into overdrive and I can do skateboarding and basketball better. same thing with smoking weed

[Anonymous No.12383567]

Anyone else feel like they're trading their sanity for intelligence?
I originally scored 127 on an IQ test, the past few years I've put in a lot of effort and retested at 143 (on an actual test not some online garbage). My thoughts are a lot more clear and accurate but I've developed severe echolalia and had a recent bout of pscyhcosis.

Anyone else had similar a experience?

[Anonymous No.12383597]

>>12345982
CK2, EU4

[Anonymous No.12383627]

>>12340510
I made brain improvement game...

https://pastebin.com/evhpYAjb

[Anonymous No.12383893]

>>12383627
than k yuo ..

[Anonymous No.12384453]

>>12344646
Dual N Back is fucking crazy, so simple but really messes your head up after a couple minutes

[Anonymous No.12384726]

>>12341914
Do you do this while studying in college? College drains all the energy out of me (I have major depression so it's even harder I guess), I can barely take care of myself, but I do work a lot to improve myself during holidays.

[Anonymous No.12385032]

>>12344646
>>12384453
What's the difference between dual-n-back and just furthering your education to more complex things which requires a stronger and more stacked base knowledge? Seems like doing this would yield more benefit than a plain exercise on its own.

[Anonymous No.12385209]

>>12385032
DnB is said to increase your working memory which is a part of your Fluid Intelligence, and thought as not to be improvable. Furthering your education will increase your Crystalized intelligence, which is thought to be improvable by age. Improving your working memory gives you a higher potential for increasing Crystalized Intelligence, because you'll acquire the same amount of information in a shorter time.

[Anonymous No.12385419]

>>12385209
maybe I should try this. My working memory is unbelievably terrible, whenever I'm doing anki flashcards for japanese it takes me like half an hour to go though 20 new words because i forget them literally as soon as i see them.

[Anonymous No.12385457]

>>12380372
Sounds about right. Just closing my eyes and trying to force the image of a red star doesn't work for me instantly, eventually I progressively get to 4 or 5
but if I first imagine a red apple I get easily see a red star and even rotate it.

[Anonymous No.12385511]

>>12373310
I just want to increase my working memory. I'm gonna try dual-n-back for a couple months and record my results in a series of tests I already selected.

[Anonymous No.12385517]

Are psychedelics actually good for your brain? You'd think it'd be the opposite. Would they affect and ADHD brain differently? (that second question is probably retarded but I felt like I should ask)

[Anonymous No.12385581]

>>12344646

At what rate does aging diminish the returns from some of these exercises? Is there a 'cut-off' point where they stop actually sharpening?

[Anonymous No.12386088]

>>12385419
It would be amazing to be able to increase up to 100 new words a day. I wonder if DnB is capable of that.

[Anonymous No.12387158]

>>12353941
I'm a 1 and I really wish I was able to visualize anything at all. I'm trying image streaming but ultimately I know it's futile, and that my brain lacks the fundamental ability to conjure up imagery.

[Anonymous No.12387195]

>>12383567
What have you done exactly ? I scored 135 it will be nice reaching 143

[Anonymous No.12387196]

I drink a lot, can I still make it?

[Anonymous No.12387473]

>>12387195
In the time between the two tests I've started doing the following.

Changed diet significantly
>No sugar/refined food
>Researched diet to be best inline with my genetic makeup
>Started exercising 2-6 hours a day combined with audiobooks
>2-3 hours a day doing mental exercise (playing mobas/rts games with the intention of pushing myself mentally)
>Proper sleep cycle 7-8 hour main sleep + 1-2 hour after noon nap
>Changed to sleeping on stomach so brain gets properly flushed at night
>Fixed improper breathing habits, full breaths, proper rate of 5.5 seconds per breath and no mouth breathing
>Did psychedelics a few times

I wouldn't necessarily say I've increased it, it's more I cut out things that were negatively impacting it. I slightly regret not doing it in a more rigorus manner as to not see the exact effects of each change, but if I had to pick one thing it would be doing proper "mental exercise" I just feel like shit if I don't work my brain out, physical exercise would be a close second.

[Anonymous No.12387508]

>>12340510
>Mental exercise
Visualizing unique landscapes or structures that are completely fictitious that you can call back to your memory again and again on different days. Adding details and memorizing where things should be.
Estimations of events before they happen and then compare to actual results helps tune your ability over time if you are honest with yourself.
>Nootropics
None
>Neuroscience
Understanding that there are many functions of your brain not directly connected to your language centers. Jung analytical psychology is useful in understanding the role of the subconscious and how it communicates to conscious. Come up with whatever spiritual story you prefer, your subconscious will use it to communicate with you. Buddha, Christ, intelligent spaghetti monster, etc doesn't matter. But the qualities you think it has your subconscious will use.
>Lifestyle
Regular fitness is a must.. if you are overweight it will be a big energy tax on your system. Get fit. I also added lots of bone marrow to my diet. At least one bone marrow meal a week now.

[Anonymous No.12388616]

>>12387473
Do you think it has made a significant difference in normal life?

[Anonymous No.12388642]

>>12380162
this is a very good post. I also have a cookie cutter step to add to your routine for anyone interested, which is guided meditation based on yt videos

[Anonymous No.12388643]

>>12385517
look up "Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders"

I want to post the link but as you can see in pic related, 4chan is fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.12388652]

I read a lot of books about philosophy, Mathematics, physics, cs, law and economics, neurological psychology, psychology, clinical psychology and more. I study Cs, law and economics as well as marketing and psychology. I play video games in my free time (From watch dogs to sandbox universe and gta to kerbal space program) as well as competitive (Rainbow six and Dota 2). I work out every day for 1 hour because I want to audition for a kpop agency. I study/can speak German, English, Chinese mandarin and cantonese, Japanese, French and Korean.

I don't have much free time left but I think it's worth it

[Anonymous No.12388664]

Basic shit anyone can understand

> get good sleep. Dont over or undersleep

> stop being stressed. You can implement stress into your lifestyle as motivation but constantly being stressed will wear you down and youll feel mentally foggy

> study/learn about things that facinate you. Just thinking and forming new connections in your brain is good enough.

> stop drinking sugary drinks and or taking stimulants like caffeine alongside other drugs. Drink only water and only drink/do drugs on very important occasions. Water is your go to beverage

> try to start up new hobbies

> hear more opinions from other people.

> educate yourself on foreign topics you know nothing about. Sometimes you may wonder “why” and never actually try properly finding out. Dont be a tard who hopes someone will educate them and educate yourself.

> understand that you dont understand some things and shouldnt say shit about things you don’t know anything about.

[Anonymous No.12388669]

>>12388652
> I study/can speak German, English, Chinese mandarin and cantonese, Japanese, French and Korean.

Ooooh learning languages. Should add that to the list for the next /big/ OP

>>12388664
> stop being stressed

This too. I feel like stress just uses up mental resources for no good. Instead of looking for a solution to a problem, you ponder the problem. It's like leaving the car running in a parking lot for 2 hours before a race and wondering why you run out of petrol halfway.

[Anonymous No.12388811]

>>12351326
More capillaries form

[Anonymous No.12388904]

>>12388811
That's actually a really interesting theory. Generally I've always thought that traditional Kung Fu practices increase feelings of energy by optimizing resource and energy distribution in the body. Especially things like joint rotation exercises.

What they would call "channeling" or "honing" your "chi" or whatever the fuck ever would literally be just lubricating the body in a plethora of ways that all add up.

[Anonymous No.12389070]

>>12341012
How do I know if I'm doing it right?

[Anonymous No.12389158]

>>12389070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8zb_QKZEo

From 8:05 onwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4n7cbNXZw

Up till 1:45

There are a load of different phases when developing this exercise. For instance it takes learning how to breathe calmly and controlledly while holding it instead of gasping for breath like you do when you run. A lot of focus is needed to maintain a good stance (for the sake of the exercise but also for the sake of not fucking up your body holding a stance that is bad for you) and as the pain increases it gets progressively harder to maintain your focus.

Once you start being able to hold it longer, strength-wise and endurance wise, enduring the pain becomes the next challenge since the length of you holding the stance doesn't depend on your muscular ability to do it, but your mental ability to withstand the pain. Once you can withstand the pain for a long while, the next "challenge" is to able to move beyond it, to enter a sort of meditative state where you're just holding the stance, breathing. In a way you're not focusing at all, since you have to dissolve your mind in the exercise, but in another way you're actually focusing so much that the exercise will encompass your entire consciousness.

Every new stage comes with new experiences, sometimes you push through a pain barrier and it's empowering as fuck, you collapse and then you suddenly feel weightless and powerful. Sometimes you enter that meditative state and afterwards you are extremely calm and focused.

Shaolin techniques do a lot of weird shit that seem to trigger the body's survival instinct (and the brain's survival instinct) in safe, contained ways. So much of this shit is unresearched but it's really interesting that some of these practitioners can not just withstand physical and mental stressors, but also come out unscathed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_H5tKAPG4

[Anonymous No.12389175]

>>12341742
Why not squares then?

[Anonymous No.12389721]

>>12389175
This might have something to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID2B4MK7Y0

[Anonymous No.12389919]

>>12388616
Normal life is pretty much the same, except I find I'm better at solving the various small problems that tend to pop up every now and then.

[Anonymous No.12390854]

>>12355860
defeatist mentality

[Anonymous No.12391493]

What can I take to be less retarded when drunk?

[Anonymous No.12391623]

>>12391493
Alcohol is one of the worst things you can ever put into your body.

95% of illegal drugs, even some of the most "hard drugs" you're told about are fucking benign compared to what alcohol will do with a human being.

[Anonymous No.12391798]

How do you stop feeling insecure and anxious about all the things you don't know but want to learn about? I just want to be able to focus on something and study without getting distracted by insecurity, this was an issue even back in high school

[Anonymous No.12391812]

>>12391798
Try less not to be insecure, try more to figure out WHY you're insecure. Introspection is a powerful cognitive tool.

[Anonymous No.12392054]

>>12383567
I know your intellectual capabilities might be improving, but these results mostly show that you're becoming adept at doing IQ tests.

About your psychotic symptoms, even if you're over-somatizing some other shit, I'd really recommend visiting a Psychiatrist.

[Anonymous No.12392154]

Financial stress and depression has killed my brain. I fell foggy and lethargic. Pls help.
None of the tropics help. Noopept seem to dampen the anxiety and elevated my cognitive base level but it's not doing anything for the "I wanna go back to bed" - feeling that my brain emits all day long.

[Anonymous No.12392679]

>>12392154
Know that going back to bed won't help your situation forever, and make a plan to better your life if even a little.

[Anonymous No.12393060]

>>12353941
Without trying hard I can imagine 6 with 4 of the tips appearing and the remaining one like a 4, focusing I can see all of this as 6 but the behind of my eyes hurt a lot.

[Anonymous No.12393413]

>>12392154
Do you exercise much?

[Anonymous No.12393511]

>>12393413
I used to run 2 or 3x per week but the weather is not too much fun currently.

[Anonymous No.12394025]

>>12393511
Exercise will make a huge different over the long term. 6 months of consistent exercise building up to 5 days a week of light-to-medium cardio at least will do wonders cerebral blood flow, brain oxygenation and glucose metabolism in your body overall, and the brain too as a result. It also helps regulate your circadian rhythm if you do it at regular times.

You can deal with the "I wanna go to bed" feeling by thinking: The effort it will take to exercise and the physical and potential mental pain you will suffer from it, will be less than the mental and potential physical pain you will suffer from not doing it. (and the consequences that will follow)

[Anonymous No.12395191]

>>12394025
different anon here
I've been starting to run but my legs quit before my heart can really start going. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.12395499]

>>12395191
Check the OP in the running general on >>/fit/

[Anonymous No.12395515]

>>12340510
no sugar
no alcohol
no smoking
no msg
no overeating, in fact periodic fasting
little to no processed foods
nofap
good sleep

[Anonymous No.12395568]

>>12395515
no msg
no overeating, in fact periodic fasting
little to no processed foods
these are bad only if youre fat

[Anonymous No.12395583]

>>12395568
Yes....
Fat people are winning all the food eating contest.

[Anonymous No.12395671]

>>12395515
Oh Shit I use a lot of MSG - why is it bad? I thought it was possibly just cancer?

[Anonymous No.12395677]

>>12395671
it makes food taste good, and if food tastes good you may get fat, thats it

[Anonymous No.12395706]

>>12395677
Thanks - I actually spend a lot of time on /fit/ which is where I got the idea to use msg with veggies

[Anonymous No.12395787]

>>12395499
found "couch to 5k", thank you

[Anonymous No.12395890]

>>12340510
I'm an engineering PhD student at top institution, and I spend most my day crafting my new theory on energy and finding ways to explain it to normies. In my downtime I run, do calisthenics, and have sex with my wife. That's enough brain exercise for me.

[Anonymous No.12395971]

>>12340510
>intermittent fasting
Doesn't do shit, I still fail all my exams despite studying 5-8 hours a day AT LEAST 2 months prior
>exercise like lifting and cardio
Doesn't do shit, I still fail all my exams despite studying 5-8 hours a day AT LEAST 2 months prior
>nootropics
Doesn't do shit, I still fail all my exams despite studying 5-8 hours a day AT LEAST 2 months prior

In short: if you are not born high IQ, it's over

[Anonymous No.12396002]

>>12395971
ok

[Anonymous No.12396012]

>>12396002
I study more than anyone else I've ever met and did all meme shit for longer than a year, yet am the worst student I know with three subjects I had to drop out while others passed sometimes with a NIGHT of studying beforehand.

You can't improve your brain. You are either born high IQ or not

[Anonymous No.12396271]

>>12396012
while I agree that you can't improve your intelligence, so to speak, I do think that you can better approximate your peak intelligence by trying to reduce factors that lower your cognition

I honestly don't believe you when you say
>I still fail all my exams despite studying 5-8 hours a day AT LEAST 2 months prior

what are you studying, anyway? maybe you need to try different study methods

[Anonymous No.12396282]

>>12340510
145+ here

I constantly feed it opioids, stimulants and sedatives because existence is French bread.

Every now and then I force myself to be sober for a few hours and shit out a thesis or something to stay useful for society but otherwise NGL big brained is disgenic in a low iq society.

[Anonymous No.12396286]

[Anonymous No.12396426]

>>12396286

[Anonymous No.12396443]

>>12396286
I eat 14 of them at the start of every week to destroy it.

[Anonymous No.12396661]

>>12396286
> No Bone Rot!
Well I’m sold

[Anonymous No.12396676]

>>12355373
Ok, coward.

[Anonymous No.12396680]

>>12396286
redpilled

[Anonymous No.12396687]

>>12374805
>Piotr's original pen and paper algorithm
What is this? Not having any luck with google

[Anonymous No.12396721]

>>12396687
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/History_of_spaced_repetition

[Anonymous No.12396910]

on vacation for 1 week from my dogshit job. is stoodying and doing problem sets for every waking moment just going to give me mental burnout and i'm going to retain less than 10% of it?