@The Bioneer, sir, at which site were ye writing to earn money? Are there any sites that ye can suggest me to write on them in English, to make money? Respects...
Quick questions. Have you heard of Barry Long talk on 'How to stop thinking' (for meditation purposes)? I just remembered, have you heard of heart coherence and brain coherence too by the way? Thanks for sharing.
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories: 1- Philosophy/theology 2- Natural sciences 3- Social sciences 4- Arts 5- Applicable sciences These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways. ...
39:16 - Caffeine is considered a nootropic, so is L-theanine, you wouldn't give your kids or family them? They probably already consume them, nootropics is not a class of compounds like say "stimulants" are, but rather it's a much broader and ambiguous concept of compounds that help the brain work in any way. There is nothing set in stone denoting what is or isn't a "nootropic", things usually _are_ nootropic, without being labeled one, like caffeine and nicotine for ex. Hundreds of different things you can consider as being nootropic. Many species for instance, so not just supplements either. You should look into this more.
Left hand writing VR training with oculus Meditation(big idea meditation) Exercise (all sorts)and CBT Nature walks Train both focus and creativity Second miss tap app Movement training and skills training(martial arts, calisthenics) Incidental training(speaking and writing training) Programming Supplements(nootropics)
@@WideAwakeHumanI think you should do what meets your interest. For me programming, martial arts/calisthenics, chess (patterns, mental chess, intuition), and reading books(practicing my reading skills while reading non-fictional works). just stick to your hobbies. That's the best brain training you'll ever give yourself.
@@Yohan421-e5g this is no training. It s just hanging around and neglecting the work actuall maximiz ur potential. "It will improve by inself" is the weirdest way to say, not actually working on things. For everyone else: Plan and take action. (If u fail to plan u plan to fail) 1. set a task u need to improve on 2. set ur volume (amount, intensity, time) 3. Stick to the plan and watch out for the improvement 4. Calculate the expacted improvement and compare both states and watch out for the difference 5. Acording to that raise or lower the volume and again compare/adjust volume till u reach maximum improvement rate. That s the secret to improve in anything ;)
@@LionSleepKing5 See, this is where we have to ask the stranger first before assuming what their statement means. First I'm sharing my experience. I don't do random stuff base on what I feel. I have a system of my own just like what bioneer suggested to everyone starting. Next, people would want to specifically work on the things they currently WANTED to improve at the moment. Meaning, even if they have to train ALL the areas, they would LEAN into one training they prefer, and to stick consistently on that action THEY HAVE TO LIKE IT. Next don't strawman my statement. Where the fuck did I imply "it will improve by itself". Lastly, I won't even specifically mention the spelling errors you did. You do you, but maybe, you have to train that part more. Commenting is great and the insight that you shared is safe and sound. You just need to know how to categorize someone's comment and to not come up being an ass
THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS DOES NOT SUPPORT THE CLAIMS MADE IN THIS VIDEO. you do talk about transfer a bit so i assume you know about the scientific consensus. in fact your first few sentences of the video really let that shine through, but you make no scientific arguments. yours is an extremely biased opinion and i hope everyone here uses this opportunity to practice a very important cognitive skill: CRITICAL THINKING. you seem to not have fairly evaluate the studies regarding this topic, as your income is somewhat impacted by them, since you are selling an app, an ebook and a training program. you say you take issue with the scientific consensus, because studies not showing any transfer simply havent used an "effective dose", however you don't actually engage with any specific studies, and it's obvious to me that you're trying to not state something that is demonstrably false according, thus being PURPOSELY vague in order to sell your bullshit. regarding the effective dose argument, how do you explain that meta-analyses find, that the higher quality a study (that is: scientists have found through statistical analysis, that a study is more belivieble.) the LOWER any observed effect? based on this finding, it is simply IRRATIONAL to assume that if you just do brain training for 10 hours a day, you will at some point reach the effective dose and then you will find skils transferring between domains. YOU ARE BIASED AND YOU KNOW IT ;-) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5724589/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29239631/ i dare anyone who does not see through the bs in this video, (and who has free access to the studies, through university internet or such) to read these studies in full. I am hoping everyone reading this comment realizes the following: DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST RUclipsRS, RESEARCH YOURSELF, READ ABSTRACTS AT LEAST. you do NOT need to buy any program to make yourself function "generally cognitively better" or anything of the sort, but if you ACTUALLY want to learn a skill, practice that exact skill and you WILL improve, regardless of age or predisposition. just stop trying to improve "domain unspecific function". it's doing nothing but spinning your wheels. according to studies that i linked, and even simply just looking at people that have found superb achievement like chess grandmasters, you realize that there is no transfer between such skills and general cognitive function. there is some slight correlation between genetic intelligence and those achievements, however there is NO evidence that becoming the best chess player you can be will actually do anything to increase your cognitive function outside of the confines of a chess board.. regarding this example it is even shown that chess grandmasters are NO BETTER than beginners at remembering the location of certain pieces when they are randomized. only when the location of the pieces align with chess positions that actually occur in real games, can they better remember the positions of the pieces. THE ONLY WAY TO IMPROVE AT ANY SKILL, IS BY PRACTICING THAT SPECIFIC SKILL. FAR-TRANSFER IS A MYTH not everything in this video is complete bullshit, but thats how these scam artists work: they mix in things like "meditation has some cognitive benefits" which are scientifically proven to make the bullshit theyre selling you more plausible.
As a martial artist, I believe the true training we do physically is ultimately for the mind. Even the Spartans said this. The samurai said this. Hell, everyone who trains for real combat says the mind is most important to train.
working memory is Key in sparring yeah. really cool way to train this are multi opponent melee games as you have to be even more aware. childish games do wonders for that kind of stuff !
Zelda games are a good example, lots of enemies in a given area often times, particularly in the 2d versions. Dark souls is another one for when you're really good and/or masochistic. Gaming in general is very good for problem solving and reaction, just training the mind to see and remember things. One mind any weapon
@@araragikoyomi99 by games I meant sparring games in some martial arts (like multi opponent fencing for example) but I guess for some of this stuff melee video games can do the trick also haha :)
Thank you for making me stronger and more disciplined Adam. I was stagnating in life because my training and knowledge was not enough, but thanks to you, your channel and your lifestyle I was able to improve all areas of my life.
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories: 1- Philosophy/theology 2- Natural sciences 3- Social sciences 4- Arts 5- Applicable sciences These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways. rrrrrrrr
I agree with what you say regarding focus. I made a similar discovery one day, long time ago, with a simple question that came to mind: Why do I now forget everyone's names? Once upon a time I never forgot anyones name, now I forget often. I realized my answer: I stopped caring about others so much. So I've always said the ability to remember is directly tied to what we care about. Many years later, I have always kept this in mind and it always seems to hold true. If ppl don't care about something, they will be dismissive and discard it more quickly. I call it a matter of caring, you call it focus, but its more-less the same thing.
0:00 - Introduction 2:00 - James's story 6:00 - Brain training techniques 11:00 - Tips for brain training 15:00 - James's vision for the future 18:00 - Conclusion
Best channel on RUclips I swear. What keeps me addicted to you brother is a lot of these training require nothing but your own solitude. It’s a powerful form of self love. 💪🏾
guy selling you an app, an ebook and a training program takes issue with scientific consensus and you gobble it up. look at the work of giovanni sala on the topic
Skills training is meditation. The best brain exercise by far, other than writing code, is learning to play an instrument and composing music. Add in live performance and there is a whole new level of brain discipline. I've got the opposite problem from ADHD and have had to learn to let things go in order to protect my physical and mental health. It is probably more about practice than predisposition. The brain is shockingly fluid.
I’ve found playing an instrument has made me better at sports. I’m less in my head and learned to trust my body. Much better at doing something precise without getting in my own way.
@@handsolo1546I can't count on a calculator even on how many projects I've started and never seen through because the slightest obstacles make me lose interest.
For the past year I’ve been using your advice because I’ve had injuries that would randomly flare up for the 8 years and it’s actually helping me. Seeing doctor after doctor felt awful, THANK YOU so much for putting your knowledge out there and very easy to understand
I watch the bioneer regularly, never disappointed. I have gained so much knowledge from this channel and has really had such a positive impact on my training and life in general. Thanks Mr Bioneer 🇳🇿😁💪
I heard the CBT acronym and i really got scared until you remembered me it means something different in psychology. Oh boy the internet has really done something to my mind.
I've personally been diagnosed with ADD, and for a very long time I did not agree with the diagnosis as it was basically a long questionaire with many of the symptoms listed being explainable by other factors in your life. Maybe I do have ADD, but one thing I started to notice as I got older was just the feeling of being cognitively impaired. It started with mental maths, which unsuprisingly I wasn't doing any of. It became concerning when it fed into my memory and attention. I was a very introspective person that loved communicating ideas and concepts that I found interesting. As I was getting older, this was actually becoming a struggle. It was difficult to find the right words, I was finding it harder to guage a persons engagement and tune into whether this was clear to them. At work I was struggling to explain things that had happened earlier in the day or completely forgot whatever happened the day before. I literally thought I had pre-dementia and it seemed to be getting worse over time. What I noticed was a relationship between stress. I wasn't sleeping well, even when I did I would still feel very fatigued. I stopped having a personal life as my anxiety grew. My frequent mistakes weren't going un-noticed at work either where I could see people rolling their eyes when I spoke and even mention I had the memory of a goldfish when I failed to remember certain things, and was even accused of being stoned from how jaded I was. Which was really crushing as I had no social life and hadn't had a drop of alcohol in months. My environment was essentially starving my brain of what it needed to be healthy and this was causing a decline. I then had to make changes. This started with decision fatigue. I noticed that certain aspects of my recreation, were actually quite taxing. As I wasn't resting properly, I decided to cut out reading the news and playing online chess. From this alone I started making less mistakes at work. Physical activity throughout the day, was also perking me up, giving me little boosts throughout the day. At this point I was getting aches and pains and to deal with this I started taking collagen tablets which worked nearly immediately indicating I wasn't getting the right balance of protein in my diet. I also found creatine was giving my brain a boost, yet this started to produce on and off stomach issues, which became better as I dropped the frequency from once a day to once a week. The real game changer came mostly on the supplement and nutrition side. I cut out coffee, and began drinking alot more plain water. For me I think I may have a blood pressure issue which makes me more susceptible to the effects of dehydration. Despite having plenty of caffiene when I was younger, at this point in my life it doesn't seem to suit by body, I just wake up feeling like I hadn't slept despite not having any issues falling asleep or waking up in the night. The game changer came in the form of lions mane mushrooms. From the first pill, it felt like the other half of my brain had woken up and I didn't have to put any effort into my memory. I felt 10 years younger, but there was a cost. I was getting more fatigued and emotionally I felt numb, which then began to progress into headaches. I noticed that I now needed to eat more, take more vitamins, be more hydrated and with the addition of fatty acid supplements, I can now take lions mane and not feel a single negative symptom. It's greatly benefitted me, however if you are going to take neutropics, be mindful that your situation is unique and you may have to make a lot of changes to see a good outcome. One thing I would have changed is take more consideration of other factors such as my work environment, social life etc, instead of being a guinea pig to new drugs.
I have to thank you because i also have ADD and the symptoms you listed here are the same ones i have, much less than you in certain things because i probably am younger. Anyway i wanted to ask you if you improved your lifestyle just by eating the right things and doing sports. Is It all I can do? Did you have other lifestyle changes that helped you with ADD?
@@leondelmonte7723 that's quite hard to answer. As I've improved my nutrition and have improved my fitness they have become weaker factors overall, however how they interact with the other factors that I focus on isn't clear cut. So nowadays hydration is one of my biggest factors for brain fog. This could purely be because I exercise more and therefore need a higher baseline of water. Sugar is also higher on the list than exercise, if I have something like orange juice I'll get a noticeable sugar crash and brain fog, but that could just be sugars relationship with water. Regardless your body chemistry and lifestyle is different to mine. You won't get the same results and over time you will also have to focus on different things. My main suggestion is to just make changes that you know you can maintain and just see what happens. Use that to become more intune with your health. You can then just fine tune things until you have a balance that works for you. The protocols I follow now don't feel like work as they offset the fatigue that I had without them, but I also expect that they will change over time. Here's a list of what seems to be most significant to my brain fog, but generally they aren't independant factors. Lions Mane > Hydration > Sugar crash > Caffeine excess > Exercise > Alcohol > Nutrition > Sleep
I'm only 25 but my cognitive functioning is getting worse and worse. My psychologist was suspecting I have ADD as well. I really wanna change my life, but because I'm extremely slow, I often work for 12h daily, 10h in better days (even though I only get paid for 8). At home I also do chores slowly so I almost have no time for anything in my life. I never heard on the internet about someone being so slow it affects their life so badly, but I think I blame it on my lack of focus, lack of energy/bad condition, and losing track of time. Now I have summer vacation and my goal is to do calisthenics and stretching, meditation (I already started meditating regularly a month ago) and to focus on a good diet and being hydrated. I really hope things will get better one day. Thank you for sharing your experience, it's motivating to me to see I'm not the only one with similar struggles. I wish you best.
This is why I've subbed to the bioneer. This is the type of thing I love and enjoy. Thank you for putting the time and effort into making an amazing video like this.
performance anxiety at the urinal sometimes happens to me too. it's mostly embarrassing because it's irrational. if I can't get it going sometimes flushing the urinal does it. but if it doesn't I'll just zip up and walk away and not worry about it. if anyone is noticing they might be having the same problem so just leaving makes things less awkward.
Thanks for sharing! One of the techniques that worked for me is called “hypothesis testing.” Basically, you intentionally stand there for like 15 minutes and thereby demonstrate to yourself that nothing so bad happens. It’s not super fun but it works well!
@TheBioneer "people would think I'm just hanging out in there like I'm a weirdo" And your solution was to hang out in there for a quarter of an hour? I love your content but that's hilarious
@@probablyryan8151 it's not like anyone is going to ask you why you're staring at a blank wall in front of a urinal for 15 minutes. nope, just you asking yourself why you're staring at a blank wall in front of a urinal for 15 minutes.
The stuff you described about ADD was similar to what I experience. I am diagnosed, and even the stuff like taking a minute to warm up in a conversation if im not expecting it is accurate. The regular mistakes you make often, disorganised in school etc. and also the big idea thinking is something similar to what I do, I even have multiple notes on my phone about different things I think about like business ideas. You even mentioned "scatterbrain" which is a word I'm all too familiar with. It's actually funny that you mention micro workouts throughout the day to combat sluggishness and brain fog. The working theory for ADD is that its a dopamine deficiency in the brain, causing the brain to be very interest based and reliant upon maintaining dopamine. When it gets low you start feeling more restless, making worse decisions, feeling lethargic like you cant move etc. Coincidentally, workouts are one of the best ways to up your dopamine. I found it fascinating how that helped your brain fog and sluggishness, because these are two of the most common symptoms reported for ADD. ADD and similar diagnoses may be "trendy" now, but I think part of it is just people realising they have it because more attention is brought to it. So don't feel bad about thinking you have ADD, you very well may have it, it's worth having a look at. That aside, excellent video. It made watching a 40 minute video seem like a 20 minute one, your editing style is great.
Scatterbrain plagues my life. I always have 20 different ideas, concepts, new goals/interests floating around, and I will hyper-fixate on one for 48 hours, and then forget about it completely. Last week I spent two days learning photoshop non-stop as I wanted to start a clothing brand, and then forgot about the whole idea 😂 I also absolutely cannot organise my work schedule and school life. My doc has suggested I get assessed for ADHD/ADD a couple of times, but I haven't really gotten around to it. Do you mind if I ask about your current condition? Do you take any medication for ADD? And were you diagnosed early on?
@L H I don't take medication at the moment. I wasn't diagnosed early. I think its more common with ADD to go undiagnosed because the more obvious hyperactive symptoms of ADHD aren't profound. Those are the ones parents, teachers etc. dislike and notice from a young age. But what you describe does sound very similar to my experiences.
ADHD is very real very real but of course i'm projecting from my expereince, it's night and day when taking the right meds and yes i work out too 4 to 5 a week and eat pretty good maybe not as good as you but better than most, when my friend who pre debetic, eats like shit, sleeps like shit can organised his calender and his wife and his team as-well as doing lots of web work and tax returns and i'm struggling just opening a email and replying let me tell you how f#ing heartbreaking it is and a six pack or hiit workout ist all it, I def agree workouts and eating right make ya feel great, good way to damper depresion and makes ya strong and makes ya have more energy with kids and women : ) but doesnt dramatically change someone with adhd for concentration of mental tasks and of course depends on the spectrum.
@@mattng4707Thanks for saying this I have ADHD and I bounce back and forth when I see other people saying you can just eat better and train and it will go away. So it makes me feel like meds are not the answer but I’m starting to find out that it’s a combo of everything. I gotta stop bouncing on an off the meds and stick with them.
ive been questioning around about this fobia, my girlfriend has it. Turns out like 5 people in my close circle have some level of this phobia. I think it is pretty common especially around women it seems.
One of the most important nutrients for my brain is potassium. I have so much more mental energy and clarity when I consume enough potassium. The average adult needs 4700mg of potassium everyday and very few people consume that much. So I highly recommend eating more foods that are high in potassium.
This was totally fascinating! just a few weeks before i discovered your channel i had finished reading the book "Keep Sharp" by Sanjay Gupta and had sparked a big interest in training my brain. So imagine my delight when finding that your channel not only focuses on the physical aspects of training that i want to pursue but also covers a ton of mental training. I can't thank you enough for all of this amazing info!
I want to join in on this discussion. I watched the the video in its entirety and it is very well thought out and I am VERY glad that SOMEONE is trying to bring brain training into light and how heavily under-utilized it is. That being said, I don't necessarily agree with some of your perspectives on focus/working memory mainly because from what I have learned through my own metacognition is that they are stemming from something more fundamental. Now, do note that I do not think you are entirely wrong on these components and they are extremely beneficial to train. That being said, I will try to explain my own model and I wonder if it'll maybe give you some more insight or even more questions, and I believe it's a more fundamental approach to think about and it becomes unbelievably transferrable to every skill (from what I experienced). And as a disclaimer, I do not necessarily have studies to back up my thought processes, rather this is a more intuitive and holistic approach that aims to make it easy to train certain aspects of the mind. So, basically just imagine a triangle with 3 components: Memory, Thinking, and Reading. A very simple trichotomy, but big emphasis on memory. There are 2 other components as well, but they are off to the side: Focus and Emotion. Now to briefly explain the 3 main components as they are the most fundamental (memory is the most important): Reading is the intake of information, Thinking is the processing of information, and Memory is the storage of information. Very simple, right? Focus enhances all 3 of these components by a certain factor depending on how trained the focus is, and emotion comes into the mix as they may influence these components depending on the emotion. All these components are happening all at once no matter what, you cannot isolate them in actual practice, but only think about them by themselves. Now if we enhance these main components we have: Critical Thinking, Speed Reading, and Super Memory. All of these are actually transferrable to any skill if you truly understand this model. However, there may be some confusion when thinking about these components, and it's that strictly "verbal" or pertaining to words. This is not the case, for example, when I am referring to reading, this can mean the intake of information when you look through the rear-view mirror in a car. So, point is, don't limit this model to words (they can be applied to words though, just not the other way around!) For now, I'll stick to these main components and translate your findings that you laid out for us in the video to this model: Working memory is quite obviously the memory component, however it's just one aspect of memory so therefore it's a component thats branched out from memory. Next, you talk about visualization and the like, that is actually mostly memory but when you scan and put pieces together through your eyes (as an example), you're actually reading and then thinking turns it into memory. Furthermore, you talk about focus, which is actually just the enhancement of all the components, however it's not actually more fundamental than something like memory. Another one you mention is the big idea meditation, that is actually more of a critical thinking task, although I will admit it can be a form of meditation. The motion skills training is actually a really interesting one and I believe it helps you the most because it's actually correctly utilizing all 3 components, you're actively intaking the information on how your body is reacting and moving (reading), you're imagining and memorizing certain movements (thinking and memory), you're actively figuring out how to move (thinking), and as your practice you employ more of the motion as you remember (memory), so actually it makes sense that it's extremely effective. What I'm trying to get at from the previous paragraph is that you might not be brain training efficiently from the basic ones you mentioned like N-back and the other training modules you were given. Because they only target one aspect and as a side note for N-back you actually want to use quad N-back instead of dual because of the greater difficulty gives better results (from my personal experience). But back to the point, the actual best brain training is actually training to become a speed reader. The exercises required for speed reading actually utilize both memory (remember the most important) and reading quite heavily and later on as you get better, your thinking becomes required and enhanced as well. Notice that I keep mentioning memory as the most important, because it is. It's quite literally the key to every skill there is and I do believe it's the fundamental source of our consciousness. You mention only working memory, but that is a small fraction of memory (and theres even a ton of things to working memory that you can train that you didnt mention!). You want to train the entirety of memroy, work on long form training, memory palaces, mind mapping, learn the major system, try to remember dreams, you MUST practice these techniques too or else you'll bottleneck the full capabilities of your memory. Finally, focus, meditation like you said should be the best for this and I think the practice of focusing on breath shouldn't be overlooked just because it's not easy at first. It becomes easier and transfers much easier. And like I said, it enhances all the components. Lol, I wrote an essay but I havent put my full thoughts on this topic. I genuinely hope my thoughts don't go to waste here because I have yet to see many people talking about such an important topic that I genuinely believe can change lives if incorporated correctly. Hope this isnt a too much and I hope you can acknowledge this, If not thats ok im just glad to put my thoughts on a relevant video. I hope one day I can make my own video on this topic Thank you again for this content!
Simple things you can do to improve your brain function (from my expericence) Read. Learn languages. Sleep properly. Physical exercise. Diet. Water (hydration). Philosophy. Thinking, mental problem solving (without distractions or sensorial stimulation). Tracking conversations (subjects and points). Trying to remeber things, details.
Sparring and attempting meditation has helped a lot. I say "attempting" meditation because I have trouble getting there as your guest described. Thanks for the video. I appreciated the deeper dive.
Ha, I had a feeling you're neurospicy. I've arrived at the conclusion that I'm AuDHD (autistic + ADHD) and I can relate a lot to what you said about your struggles. Meditation, yoga and regular training (both physical and mental) have been a big game changer for me, so it's great to hear your perspective which aligns with mine in so many points but also has some interesting new insights. Keep the great content coming!
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories: 1- Philosophy/theology 2- Natural sciences 3- Social sciences 4- Arts 5- Applicable sciences These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
Meditation is the number one thing that has helped me with my insomnia, hands down, and I've suffered from pretty severe insomnia over the years. These days I have the habit of meditating before going to sleep. Some people complain about falling asleep while meditating, but for me this is no problem at all, but rather a desired result when I'm meditating right before going to bed. If I'm meditating during the day, then it's a different story. Another big thing I've noticed that meditation has helped me with is appreciation of music. I also listen to a few songs before going to bed, so basically I'm sitting on the sofa in a dark room, in a meditative state, listening to music on my headphones with a quiet mind, and I get so much more out of the music this way as opposed to just using music as background noise when I'm doing something else, for example. Attention really does matter. Overall, meditation is a great way to get to know your mind better, is what I would say. A journey to the self, if you will. At the moment of writing, I've done regular meditation practice for about 5-6 years, so I have some experience, even though I still feel like I'm very much the beginner. Meditation is something I like to do, so there's no pressure for me to do it, and my advice for people trying out meditation would be to not force it. Let it come about naturally. Anyway, just my two cents. Thank you for the great content, as always.
I often have trouble going to and staying asleep so I'm curious about benefits when it comes to sleep. How do you prefer to meditate? What are you thinking or doing?
@@joshuaw8873 I just allow my mind to empty itself and become silent. The important thing is to not try to force it but rather allow it to happen by itself. If my mind is racing, then I will count my breaths in sets of ten to focus my mind (one inhale-exhale pair is one "rep"). I'll do around 2-5 sets of these and then leave the counting out. Allow yourself to breathe naturally, don't force your breath. In the beginning I needed to use the counting technique more, but with experience, it feels like I can more readily just tune into the silence. As for the posture, I think whatever feels comfortable is good. Most often I sit on the sofa or lie down when meditating. I suppose in my mind what I'm doing is observing. Observing my thoughts, observing the silence, or observing ambient noises, or music, and then just being. It's a little hard to explain because there is not much to explain. It just feels like harmony, when you get into it.
🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00:00 *🧠 Introduction to Brain Training* - Discusses the appeal and misconceptions about brain training. - Critiques the scientific backing of brain training tools. - Personal story: 15-20 years of brain training, types of training tried, and its impact. 00:05:42 *💡 Understanding Brain Plasticity* - Introduction to neuroplasticity and the corpus callosum. - Experiments with ambidexterity training and its mixed results. - Discussion on activity transferability, like playing guitar. 00:07:48 *🧮 Working Memory and Cognitive Gains* - Defines and explains the significance of working memory. - Connection between working memory and enhanced visual attention. - Training methods like dual n-back and tools for athletes and military personnel. 00:15:18 *🎯 Focus as a Key Component* - Discussion on focus as an underlying trait for better working memory and brain function. - Theoretical overlap between working memory and focus. - Exploration of meditation as a method to enhance focus and cognitive performance, with varied personal experiences. 00:18:37 *🧘 Meditation and Self-Improvement* - Meditation has provided a sense of calm and focus, reducing stress. - It takes approximately six weeks of consistent practice to notice significant benefits. - Different forms of meditation, like gratitude meditation and body scans, enhance self-awareness. 00:22:56 *🧠 Big Idea Meditation* - Non-directive meditation allows the mind to wander, enhancing creativity and problem-solving. - "Big idea meditation" involves brainstorming solutions to complex challenges. - This practice led to breakthroughs and success in app development and other creative projects. 00:26:37 *🏃♂️ Movement and Skill Training* - Movement and skill training improve working memory more effectively than traditional cognitive exercises. - Activities like martial arts and balancing require focus on multiple tasks simultaneously, enhancing cognitive skills. - This training approach surprisingly transferred improvements to dual back performance and other cognitive tasks. 00:34:04 *📖 Career and Cognitive Development* - Career activities, like programming and writing, significantly impact brain function and cognitive abilities. - Different careers require using varied brain areas, influencing problem-solving approaches. - These changes are a result of unintentional brain training through specific work tasks, leading to enhanced cognitive skills and efficiency. 00:38:34 *🧠 Breakthroughs and Mental Enhancements* - Importance of deep thinking, meditation, and neurotropics, - Big idea meditation combined with focus meditation can enhance cognitive function, - Movement and skills training have positively impacted working memory. 00:39:15 *💊 Nootropics Discussion and Ethical Stance* - Personal experiences with nootropics and their complex effects, - Avoidance of detailed discussion due to potential negative influence and personal ethics, - Promotion of Patreon for more in-depth content discussion. 00:41:07 *🌐 Building and Utilizing Websites* - Brain development's application in creative projects like website building, - Squarespace's user-friendly platform for website creation without coding, - Features like content scheduling, social media integration, e-commerce tools, and analytics for enhancing business strategies.
Another wonderful video! I especially appreciate how you included information about techniques that *haven’t* seemed to work particularly well for you. This is helpful!
The amount of effort ive had to overcome my specific ADHD symptoms is unbelievable. Ive had it since i can remember. As a kid i specifically thought i was trapped in my own mind. I couldnt speak, i couldnt focus, id fall a couple times a day. While growing up in general helped me pratice enough to speak and walk straight, ive felt like i hit a limit. Ive felt stuck like i did years ago all over again. Ive completely switched my mindset into not forcing work but training for future work. Meditation alone has helped. Same with positive affirmations. This video though has given me a lot of raw motivation to take it up another level. Id like to not just feel normal but actually productively output. I finally have that direction to walk. Something to strive for and not just a future of more suffering. Even if it never fully goes away, im going to use these ideas to push myself. Ill at the very least have fun learning these skills ive completely neglected. Thank you for the inspiration!
Hey mann i read your comment and found it pretty relatable as i have adhd too. The way u had trouble walking wheb u were a kid and other things might not be adhd relatated tho. Im def no expert just have experience. Mb look into DCD or Dyspraxia (its the same thinf) its xan be common with ppl with autism or adhd and very often gets wrongly or not diagnosed. Mb this is bs or mb i helped u anywayyy enjoy ur life :)
I feel you bro, I remember feeling like I can't trust my feet when I walk. I remember sitting down to do my homework and not being able to write a single word until in secondary school I just procrastinated all day and not even starting. This caused me to build up an enourmous amount of anxiety. It took me to be at my worst for years to finally get the diagnosis which gave me a second chance at 25yo. Some of the issues are resolved through meds, some through my constant investigation of mind and body but the first vital step was to develop acceptance and self-forgiveness. I still have a lot of catching up to do but I can see the light and life is kinda okay now, sometimes even great. Life is a journey. I believe in you, man.
This video is such a masterpiece. I think that nowadays people have acesss to so much powerful and actually practical and useful information, and yet, there are very few who actually apply those tips and pieces of advice to real life. If more people learnt these things, life would be much easier and joyful.
Coincidentally, I am a psychology student currently mastering in Neuropsychology, who has developed an interest on motor systems and now I see your channel and you seem to have had a similar life story!
Just came across you. Have been thru the same and you’re amazing to show your journey with ADHD that’s mid understood to most 🙏 keep growing your mind and look forward to seeing where you grow to in the future ✨
I did a 10 day silent meditation retreat and my biggest takeaway is that we are capable of anything we want. I never thought I would be able to still my mind ever and I’m a pretty confident and ambitious person. I saw how long it took and how much effort it required. It took me around 13 hours of meditation over three days until I could have a decent amount of control over my thoughts and focus. That was day three of the 10 day meditation retreat. Keep in mind I went into it super competitively and with a lot of willpower. For those three days it felt like I was trying to carve a sculpture out of a boulder with a would stick, constantly standing there beating on this boulder getting absolutely nowhere but for some reason still trying to sculpt. I feel like the actual act of this is what prompts the brain to be good at it. It is irrelevant how much progress you’re making ONLY the importance you place on the task. After the three days it was like the wooden stick was upgraded to a tiny hammer. ASMR type , slightly better than a wooden , every day my carving tool would be upgraded. That’s what it felt like. Our brain is absolutely insane and capable of whatever we’re willing to put effort into. that’s all I could think after the 10 days if I just dedicate will power time focus and effort into just one thing I can legitimately do anything it has been proven by myself.
I feel like the basics are often very underrated. Do as a child does: be attentive, genuinely curious (absorbing knowledge like a sponge), ask questions, try out different activities, learn because you want to and talk about your day (like what you have been doing and learning, which strengthens your memory as well). It’s so much about mindset and also about habits, if your mindset is beneficial it is easier for you to tap into good habits. Combine it with a healthy and yummy diet, which makes you feel energised and happy. Have fun doing sports or being active. Try some meditation or whatever might be useful to you.
As a kid asking questions too much makes me be scared of being annoying,I don't have any friends nor money nor permission to go out I can't absorb knowledge that doesn't interest me and being attentive is hard
One hugely useful but underrated exercise can be summed up in a single word... Philosophy.. It helps with focus, creativity, the ability to create a picture of someone else's world view.
@@TheBioneer I know that is exactly what you mean! I've been training in "semantic mindfulness/empathy" for a while now😂 I also do the begining of the universe, squaring the circle attempts and it is great exercise but also great fun... The beauty is that the more you do the better/more efficient you become and the easier it becomes... There comes a point where it comes naturally in everyday life under all circumstances without having to think about it until your head hurts... Philosophy has a bad reputation because it seems to most like a lot of far fetched words but the true value is learning to create a mental and logical toolkit that allows you to not only grasp the meaning of the words but to understand the underlying sense that emerges from the way the words are related to each other and to the context... It gives "peripheral vision" on a level beyond the eyes! I would advise studying philosophy not to know "what to think" but to develop one's own method on "how to think" by borrowing or inventing whatever mental instruments work well 😉 Ps... Bruce lee is the perfect beginner guide to what I mean by how to think... The true philosopher uses words/forms as an instrument but is not limited to or by them... Be like water, friends, especially when you think! ✌️
@@smelly1060 Im not a brain expert yet I think it’s apparent that as humans we are designed to move and exercise regularly, which requires our brain to work in tandem with our muscles and joints. So I’m saying that there is a link between functional movements and good cognitive ability because the brain and body are connected.
Hey Adam, I have been following your videos on RUclips for quite some time, since you offer a scientific perspective on exercise and human performance. I have studied psychology and sports science I really resonate with your content and you inspire me to take on different approaches and perspectives training myself and my clients. After watching this video I took on the objective for myself to start a new martial art, jiu jitsu. I did judo in my youth and underwater rugby was my alternative to that in my early to mid twenties. I had an underlying urge to get back into martial arts for a while now and i just signed up in a sports club for said jiu jitsu. Thank you so much for the inspiration. Keep up the good work and content. You influence more and more people every day. I hope to get a point where i can positively influence people even outside my immediate circle. If you read this message I would be happy if you reply, so I might pick your brain on how you started out with Youtubing and social media.
With respect to meditation: there are huge benefits from following the ancient traditions. Aligning yourself correctly by meditating in the lotus posture will make significant improvements in your ability to focus one-pointedly, to balance and harmonise the energies within the body, and how to transcend the stream of thoughts and emotions, which is Samsara. There is a subtle energy body that different traditions will cultivate in different ways. For example, the Tibetan practice of Tummo sends Wind energy (Qi) up the central channel to clear blockages from 4 particular chakras in order to generate extremely blissful states and experience the clear light nature of mind. Or the Daoists who use the microcosmic orbit for longevity, astral projection and ultimately to become a Daoist immortal. Alternatively, Soto Zen Buddhism teaches that by generating the mind of great compassion (the bodhi mind) and then placing yourself in the lotus posture, you are manifesting your own Buddha-nature and you then have to practice until you realise this for yourself. I have practised in all three traditions and they definitely work from my own relatively limited perspective. They also make your life incredibly meaningful.
Brain training helped me gain use of my non dominant hand. Before when I’d be tasked with a job I’d work mostly using my dominant hand and using my non dominant for stability and just a little help. I’ve been watching your channel for ever it helped me get strength back and I feel as if I’m whole. Some part of being able to not worry about reactions or involuntary action that brings me peace of mind, makes me feel rooted
Adam you asked for feedback. After meditating sporadically all my life I finally made a iron commitment and have been meditating 90 mins a day since then for over 5 years consistently (have yet to miss a day). I have noticed slow but steady changes which seem to be very slowly accelerating. These changes are entirely consistent with the focus comments in your video and I actually think I can feel my brain changing (could say why but that would be a longer conversation) I am now able to sit comfortably for the 90 mins and I find enlarged periods when I have No wandering thoughts just pure unverbalised awareness ie no internal commentary. Also still have days when I am all over the place but these are becoming less common. I could say more but this post is way long already. My takeaway big change happening but very slowly and only after applying a very substantial effort over a quite long period of time. In simple terms “you get what you pay for “.
90mins per day is a lot I have had noticable benefits after just 10mins a day. Did you delve into different schools of meditation and see if any of them make a difference? Some have recognizable stages of experiences you go through. Or perhaps you should try a retreat.
Lots of gems here! The "big idea meditation" concept reminds of Rich Hickey's programming talks where he describes his method of getting the basic info in his head, then sitting or lying down with his eyes closed to just think about it all, without trying to force a solution until the next day after sleeping on it.
Thank you for brining up the subject of working memory. I find it very interesting as I get older and am learning to deal with how my mind has changed. I think it would also be cool to hear some of your musings, especially the crazy ones as those are the ones that lead more questions and musings and growth (IMO). It has been those types of conversations with my friends that I treasure and I think have helped me grow as a person. Looking forward to your next video!
i’ve only just started to get interested in brain training and ways to enhance the way i think since i’ll be using my brain a lot more than my actual literal strength. pretty insightful video 10/10
@@noor-rrr been playing the word game that you need to remember each new word. it has helped my short memory a lot but outside of that i got busy and forgot about brain training😅
The problem with big idea meditation is that if you are easily distracted then its not easy to keep track of everything and connect the dots. This is where notebooks are useful. The other problem is that people are likely to get stuck in that emotional state. So focused meditations is always essential.
I'd love to watch a video of your thoughtful questioning. I think it would be a good exercise in abstract thinking, that a lot of people could benefit from. Love your content. You bring an excellent perspective and a wonderfully engaging presentation of information. Thank you for all that you do!
I guess I kinda do big think already, I like walking through memories, remembering as many details and were items were placed and how they sat, it requires quite a bit of focus, depending on how detailed you go.
Adam, I speak for myself and everyone else...We all appreciate you. You have made an impact on so many people. You're so genuine. Happy for you and your family buddy. Keep doing your thing man we here.❤
Mr. Sinicki, I m a Historical fencer...originally from Puerto Rico but I moved a while back to Springfield MO to works on health care. I and a friend here we are big fans of your work, publications and video blog. I was wondering , would you be interested on look into our specific( and a bit of out of the ordinary historical martial art/sport) discipline and do a series of videos? Let s say about Longsword practice for example. Key words: Historical European Martial Arts, HEMA, Longsword.
I grew up slightly mentally disabled. My short term memory was non existent and I found many different methods to improve that but they are mostly chemical based. I started with meditation when I was quiet young, about 14 years of age. Perhaps a side effect of the memory issue was my ability to visualize very strongly as compensation and I had and enormous amount of energy. The meditation gave me insights that came as symbols that were associated with solving the problems and I've built upon those foundation stones to the point that I have several brain training and chemical / foods that I take regularly. I can type from memory, while having a conversation with someone on a totally different subject and I'm aware of what's happening. It feels very stimulating. I'm a painter for a living and do landscapes as well as figurative work. My attention span is very long while working but not so long in other regards anymore. It used to be stunning but has been 'trained' out of me by the internet to be much shorter than before. I'm slightly physically disabled as a result of an accident so watching you train is inspiring.
What I've really tried to figure out is how to "program" something conciously into "an instinct" or sorts. It's basically how in martial arts, you try to train a punch or a block to become an instinct or a reflex. Similarly, I've tried to somehow break this process down, to see if I could put a mental workload into an "instinct", to "automate" it. I've had some results with writing fiction, but I think what I've discovered is just a "narrative writing tool", and not be hacking my brain. It's just simple "how to make connections between characters", which culminates to weaving random plot threads in that you can completely ignore, but can pull out later when you figure out something (for example: A random item is not so random after all. The assassin is not just some random hired goon, etc.). But it now happens so... Naturally that it feels like... A hack of sorts. Like that my brain is indeed using this narrative creation tool automatically. It's neat.
I spent my teens smoking and doing drugs. When i turned 21 i had been working out for 9 months and finally found my results. I quickly slumped back into my own ways. Im now a bit older and i think i would have been lovley to had parents that trained me like this when i was young. But i didnt. Therefore i will become rhe best self i can. Through all the troubles and tribulations i have set myself in the past. I look onward and upward because looking down never got me anywhere
I feel the exactly same way he spoke about about 27 mins in. I’m natural creative, deep thinker and all the above… I have trouble meditating as well. It’s been years I’ve been trying off and on. It’s my focus. I can’t slow my brain down.
As someone recently diagnosed with adhd, I tend to be unconsciously pulled towards whatever my current hyperfixation is. That can change by the week, months, or year. What I do to stay productive on the cognitive tasks I need to be doing, is thinking about them in terms of my hyperfixation. So when my task was understanding my mind, I imagined I was sniffing the aroma of wine, which I was interested in at the time. Now, my interest is gardening, and my task is productivity, so I imagine myself planting seeds, and cultivating myself, providing good nutrients and enough water, balancing microbial life, and giving myself the space and sunlight I need to grow. So I can genuinely enjoy making sure that I don’t accidentally skip meals or eat too much, I get sunlight during the day, I take care of my physical and mental health, and as a result, I’ve been seeing the fruits of my efforts are much bigger and sweeter.
Thank you for the excellent discussion! I rarely comment, but this resonated strongly. Your concept of "big idea meditation" or "deep thinking" describes the way I've thought about things since before I can remember - I was a bit odd as a young child. 😅 Like you, I did well academically, but always struggled with focus and rote memorization of facts. I've conceptualized these forms of "intelligence" as being inversely correlated. Big picture thinking and novel insights seem to benefit from a wide breadth of knowledge and the ability to perceive tendencies occurring across disciplines (i.e., big ideas) rather than subject specific details. I personally find ideas to meditate on by looking for the boundaries or holes in my personal "theory of everything." I'll research to get a variety of perspectives from other people, then try to reach an understanding that fits those new perspectives into my existing theory web. If it's a good challenge it literally feels as though I'm willing two neurons to connect. I think of it as analogous to the strain on the body when trying to lift a heavy weight. It may take more than one rep, but eventually things fit into place and I understand something new instead of just knowing some new information. IMHO the USA's education system really does a disservice by rewarding fact retention over deep thinking. Professionally speaking, I've been rewarded far more for the latter.
Thank you lord for this video ..I’ll be returning to school on Aug with the music majors ..I made an error on my last recital so this year it’s on I’m a be hittin em with that stride piano 🎹
Literally summed up as: 1. Meditation 2. Programming 3. Don’t recommend nootropics 4. Intermittent exercises throughout the day I wish the video was a bit shorter, it dragged on a bit too much
I mean not really. I barely mentioned programming but I do discuss writing, working memory, ambidexterity training, 3D object tracking, skills training (which I recommend as the most beneficial for me), and different kinds of meditation such as big idea meditation. I also discuss the role of ADD and the value of CBT. Might I recommend a bit of focus training? 😝
@@TheBioneer fair. I re-watched the entire video this time but honestly my point still stands. Essentially besides CBT and meditation (the two things that can change your thought patterns), everything else you mention was pretty subjective and not hitting the 'meta'. Multiple times you mention that skills training was 'profound' for you but never mention how it impacts your day to day, besides the fact that your family has seen 'noticeable changes' (what does that even mean?). The other activities you listed probably get you better at the activity alone and allow you to transfer techniques to other parts of your life but... that is basically every other activity. Playing basketball does the same thing, so does chess. or swimming. What i disliked about this video format was that it took me watching the ENTIRE video just to figure out that all of this isn't really 'globally' making you smarter but rather just rewiring your brain to get better at those tasks itself. In each sub-topic, I was essentially waiting for you to say 'and I've noticed in my day-to-day, I can remember xyz faster, things are more vivid, etc' but we never got to that point. I guess you can't please everyone but for me the video dragged on way too much. Just not my cup of tea but I'm glad you responded.
As someone diagnosed with ADD, those issues you mentioned like starting to move and then recognizing I am going in the wrong direction are painfully familiar. I feel like I have to start moving so my brain comes out of hybernation. Although that cannot really be it. For 10 years I have been trying to get myself to do meditation every way and now thanks to the waking up app I've managed to do it. So anyone who is interested might wanna try this. Cool that calisthenics seem to be helpful as I've been interested in it.
Just start playing a game where you constantly need to keep several pieces of information in your head, it's going to improve your working memory tremendously. And the more powerful your working memory is the easier it is to transfer any information from short-term memory into long-term memory. Personally, I am playing bridge and once in awhile do leetcode problems in python or java. These two activities combined definitely help me to stay mentally razor-sharp as they both develop memory and problem-solving skills.
As someone with ADHD that has also struggled with meditation for a long time, I have been having more success recently with an app called Balance. I have tried other meditation and mindfulness apps and other techniques, but so far this has given me the right amount of direction and gentle prodding that I feel like I am getting better at paying attention long enough to see any benefits. I do feel like i have more focus, especially straight after meditating, and I also feel somehow like my brain is better rested (which is weird considering I have been trying to focus on something for 15-20 mins).
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories: 1- Philosophy/theology 2- Natural sciences 3- Social sciences 4- Arts 5- Applicable sciences These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
I think you mean "intellectual endeavors". im unsure how these seemingly arbitrary fields constitute "the essence of existence" as you claim. What do you even mean by that? I think a lot of people would have a different definition of what that really means. For me, I would describe "the essence of existence" as playing an old game on the sega with my little brother. Sharing a moment with a loved one. Ruminating on tender recollections. I would consider perusing wikipedia articles or other media and consulting these arbitrary enterprises as perhaps the thing placed most furthest from what could be considered "the essence of existence". How close are _you_ to "the truth"? What do you mean by that exactly?
As someone who started ambidexterity training almost 20 years ago. this is literally the first time I’ve ever come across someone else who has experimented with the same thing, albeit with very different results. I thought I was alone!
@@tomhilton2751 Essentially I switched from right-handed to left-handed. Took a little while, but now, while I can technically use either hand for just about anything, it feels awkward & just plain unnatural to not use my left hand, in precisely the way it did to use my left when I first started the experiment.
@@FredAllenBurge Overall, yes. I am functionally ambidextrous for just about everything, from playing tennis to using screwdrivers or paintbrushes or pens or hammers, etc, it doesn’t make a difference which hand I use in terms or ability & skill. My writing is just as good (although different) with either hand. The only thing I can’t do with my left hand is play the guitar, which is simply because I never had access to a left-handed guitar when I was learning to play, and after nearly 20 years of that, I don’t see the point in trying to learn all over again with my left hand.
Great video ! You said the main problem of brain training is that it trains you on one specific training task, and does not allow you to transfer that skill outside in the real world. Yet you did the same mistake with the left-right brain connectivity through left hand training
I've done most of this and can say the best help for your brain is literally to focus on it. That's it! Think about thinking and being aware and try new things.
This video basically makes obvious the creativity of bioneer, he's been talking about out of the box training, flexibility, diets and thought processes since day dot.
Big idea meditation sounds super interesting, I’ve always wondered if there is any major benefits to traditional meditation over mindful walking outside. Super interesting video as always!🙂
Yes, huge. Aligning yourself correctly by meditating in the lotus posture will make significant improvements in your ability to focus one-pointedly and how to transcend the stream of thoughts and emotions, which is Samsara. There is a subtle energy body that different traditions will cultivate in different ways. For example, the Tibetan practice of Tummo sends Wind energy (Qi) up the central channel to clear blockages from 4 particular chakras in order to generate extremely blissful states and experience the clear light nature of mind. Or the Daoists who use the microcosmic orbit for longevity, astral projection and ultimately to become a Daoist immortal. Alternatively, Soto Zen Buddhism teaches that by generating the mind of great compassion (the bodhi mind) and then placing yourself in the lotus posture, you are manifesting your own Buddha-nature and you then have to practice until you realise this for yourself. I have practised in all three traditions and they definitely work from my own relatively limited perspective. They also make your life incredibly meaningful.
I really enjoyed this video and have saved it to rewatch. When you mentioned ppl's occupations and how this may have changed their brains in one way or another, got me thinking about my brain that is likely mush. I've been ill for over a decade and so have no true occupation. I've tried things here and there (courses, classes, part-time work, care-taking, etc.), but nothing long enough to change my brain. I'm just thinking out loud in case someone in the ether has any thoughts/suggestions.
There is no harm in getting an evaluation! I think you might be spot on. I have watched you for a few years i believe and I definetly see, even through the screen some some symptoms i would assume to be anecdotal for an adult with some great coping strategies who is in a good spot in life. I know you are very wise and can think out a lot of strategies but dont let that knowledge stand in your way for seeking gelp. Even tough you can find great ways to help yourself by your own, and I can see that is what you have done by finding purpose and passion, the evaluation can help you accept the younger you in a way. The app you talk about actually sounds similar to one of many test we use in sweden called QB test! ADHD is usually not what people expect as they often talk about stereotypes based on the hyper type and not the combined type. Love your content and you are great
adhd is not real. we are animals, animals are not supposed to pay attention like we are expected to. youre taking imaginary solutions to a problem thats entirely in your own head. there is no "deficit". you are destroying your mind by displacing from its natural homeostatic state.
I think you can do a creative analogue of your focus task (tracking missed seconds) with kaleidoscopes or the program Electric Sheep, ie. just seeing a complex, seemingly randomly changing beautiful scene.
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@The Bioneer, sir, at which site were ye writing to earn money? Are there any sites that ye can suggest me to write on them in English, to make money? Respects...
Quick questions. Have you heard of Barry Long talk on 'How to stop thinking' (for meditation purposes)?
I just remembered, have you heard of heart coherence and brain coherence too by the way?
Thanks for sharing.
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories:
1- Philosophy/theology
2- Natural sciences
3- Social sciences
4- Arts
5- Applicable sciences
These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
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39:16 - Caffeine is considered a nootropic, so is L-theanine, you wouldn't give your kids or family them? They probably already consume them, nootropics is not a class of compounds like say "stimulants" are, but rather it's a much broader and ambiguous concept of compounds that help the brain work in any way. There is nothing set in stone denoting what is or isn't a "nootropic", things usually _are_ nootropic, without being labeled one, like caffeine and nicotine for ex. Hundreds of different things you can consider as being nootropic. Many species for instance, so not just supplements either. You should look into this more.
I straightup learned everything you did on Kinuu
Left hand writing
VR training with oculus
Meditation(big idea meditation)
Exercise (all sorts)and CBT
Nature walks
Train both focus and creativity
Second miss tap app
Movement training and skills training(martial arts, calisthenics)
Incidental training(speaking and writing training)
Programming
Supplements(nootropics)
Which one of these isn’t like the others?
@@WideAwakeHumanI think you should do what meets your interest.
For me programming, martial arts/calisthenics, chess (patterns, mental chess, intuition), and reading books(practicing my reading skills while reading non-fictional works).
just stick to your hobbies. That's the best brain training you'll ever give yourself.
Cool @@Yohan421-e5g, I also play chess, what is your rating?
@@Yohan421-e5g this is no training. It s just hanging around and neglecting the work actuall maximiz ur potential.
"It will improve by inself" is the weirdest way to say, not actually working on things.
For everyone else:
Plan and take action. (If u fail to plan u plan to fail)
1. set a task u need to improve on
2. set ur volume (amount, intensity, time)
3. Stick to the plan and watch out for the improvement
4. Calculate the expacted improvement and compare both states and watch out for the difference
5. Acording to that raise or lower the volume and again compare/adjust volume till u reach maximum improvement rate.
That s the secret to improve in anything ;)
@@LionSleepKing5 See, this is where we have to ask the stranger first before assuming what their statement means.
First I'm sharing my experience. I don't do random stuff base on what I feel. I have a system of my own just like what bioneer suggested to everyone starting.
Next, people would want to specifically work on the things they currently WANTED to improve at the moment. Meaning, even if they have to train ALL the areas, they would LEAN into one training they prefer, and to stick consistently on that action THEY HAVE TO LIKE IT.
Next don't strawman my statement. Where the fuck did I imply "it will improve by itself".
Lastly, I won't even specifically mention the spelling errors you did. You do you, but maybe, you have to train that part more.
Commenting is great and the insight that you shared is safe and sound. You just need to know how to categorize someone's comment and to not come up being an ass
Bro is criminally underrated
Yeah really needs more subs bro is a super combo of Andrew huberman and mpmd
Of course a Johan Liebert fan is watching a video on improving cognitive performance
Love you
@@randomstuff1534 Better than Huberman because he doesn’t just repackage others ideas he does actual research for himself.
Bro is majestic
The info this man speaks isn't designed for the general audience. We found it because we vibe it
This is your best type of content imo, a lot of people skip brain day and it would help them a lot.
I skip brain day every day bro 😭
Lmao
@@arnoldzhen8857how about now bro?😭😭
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THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS DOES NOT SUPPORT THE CLAIMS MADE IN THIS VIDEO.
you do talk about transfer a bit so i assume you know about the scientific consensus. in fact your first few sentences of the video really let that shine through, but you make no scientific arguments. yours is an extremely biased opinion and i hope everyone here uses this opportunity to practice a very important cognitive skill: CRITICAL THINKING. you seem to not have fairly evaluate the studies regarding this topic, as your income is somewhat impacted by them, since you are selling an app, an ebook and a training program.
you say you take issue with the scientific consensus, because studies not showing any transfer simply havent used an "effective dose", however you don't actually engage with any specific studies, and it's obvious to me that you're trying to not state something that is demonstrably false according, thus being PURPOSELY vague in order to sell your bullshit.
regarding the effective dose argument, how do you explain that meta-analyses find, that the higher quality a study (that is: scientists have found through statistical analysis, that a study is more belivieble.) the LOWER any observed effect? based on this finding, it is simply IRRATIONAL to assume that if you just do brain training for 10 hours a day, you will at some point reach the effective dose and then you will find skils transferring between domains. YOU ARE BIASED AND YOU KNOW IT ;-)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5724589/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29239631/
i dare anyone who does not see through the bs in this video, (and who has free access to the studies, through university internet or such) to read these studies in full.
I am hoping everyone reading this comment realizes the following: DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST RUclipsRS, RESEARCH YOURSELF, READ ABSTRACTS AT LEAST. you do NOT need to buy any program to make yourself function "generally cognitively better" or anything of the sort, but if you ACTUALLY want to learn a skill, practice that exact skill and you WILL improve, regardless of age or predisposition. just stop trying to improve "domain unspecific function". it's doing nothing but spinning your wheels.
according to studies that i linked, and even simply just looking at people that have found superb achievement like chess grandmasters, you realize that there is no transfer between such skills and general cognitive function. there is some slight correlation between genetic intelligence and those achievements, however there is NO evidence that becoming the best chess player you can be will actually do anything to increase your cognitive function outside of the confines of a chess board.. regarding this example it is even shown that chess grandmasters are NO BETTER than beginners at remembering the location of certain pieces when they are randomized. only when the location of the pieces align with chess positions that actually occur in real games, can they better remember the positions of the pieces.
THE ONLY WAY TO IMPROVE AT ANY SKILL, IS BY PRACTICING THAT SPECIFIC SKILL. FAR-TRANSFER IS A MYTH
not everything in this video is complete bullshit, but thats how these scam artists work: they mix in things like "meditation has some cognitive benefits" which are scientifically proven to make the bullshit theyre selling you more plausible.
As a martial artist, I believe the true training we do physically is ultimately for the mind. Even the Spartans said this. The samurai said this. Hell, everyone who trains for real combat says the mind is most important to train.
working memory is Key in sparring yeah. really cool way to train this are multi opponent melee games as you have to be even more aware.
childish games do wonders for that kind of stuff !
@@Arkansya thanks for the tip! I really am gonna do this
@@Arkansyarecommend me some games that are like that m8
Zelda games are a good example, lots of enemies in a given area often times, particularly in the 2d versions. Dark souls is another one for when you're really good and/or masochistic. Gaming in general is very good for problem solving and reaction, just training the mind to see and remember things. One mind any weapon
@@araragikoyomi99 by games I meant sparring games in some martial arts (like multi opponent fencing for example) but I guess for some of this stuff melee video games can do the trick also haha :)
Thank you for making me stronger and more disciplined Adam. I was stagnating in life because my training and knowledge was not enough, but thanks to you, your channel and your lifestyle I was able to improve all areas of my life.
Big congratulations brother
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories:
1- Philosophy/theology
2- Natural sciences
3- Social sciences
4- Arts
5- Applicable sciences
These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
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Obviously don’t know you but happy that you overcame your stagnation. I hope to do the same in my life with many things.
I agree with what you say regarding focus. I made a similar discovery one day, long time ago, with a simple question that came to mind: Why do I now forget everyone's names? Once upon a time I never forgot anyones name, now I forget often. I realized my answer: I stopped caring about others so much. So I've always said the ability to remember is directly tied to what we care about. Many years later, I have always kept this in mind and it always seems to hold true. If ppl don't care about something, they will be dismissive and discard it more quickly. I call it a matter of caring, you call it focus, but its more-less the same thing.
0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - James's story
6:00 - Brain training techniques
11:00 - Tips for brain training
15:00 - James's vision for the future
18:00 - Conclusion
This needs more likes
Thank you
7:49 working memory
What about the rest of the video?😢
This video is 43 minutes. Does he really spend 25 minutes on the conclusion?
Best channel on RUclips I swear.
What keeps me addicted to you brother is a lot of these training require nothing but your own solitude. It’s a powerful form of self love. 💪🏾
It's like being your own sensei
Which is what a large % of modern man is going to be requiring to thrive, or even survive.
guy selling you an app, an ebook and a training program takes issue with scientific consensus and you gobble it up. look at the work of giovanni sala on the topic
Skills training is meditation. The best brain exercise by far, other than writing code, is learning to play an instrument and composing music. Add in live performance and there is a whole new level of brain discipline. I've got the opposite problem from ADHD and have had to learn to let things go in order to protect my physical and mental health. It is probably more about practice than predisposition. The brain is shockingly fluid.
I’ve found playing an instrument has made me better at sports. I’m less in my head and learned to trust my body. Much better at doing something precise without getting in my own way.
It helps with coordination to
Youre not solving your adhd, you just hide behind those activities, the brain likes to play tricks on you
@@royalecrafts6252nobody can 100% solve it. However it can be lowered in intensity, you still experience the issues but with less intensity
@@handsolo1546I can't count on a calculator even on how many projects I've started and never seen through because the slightest obstacles make me lose interest.
For the past year I’ve been using your advice because I’ve had injuries that would randomly flare up for the 8 years and it’s actually helping me. Seeing doctor after doctor felt awful, THANK YOU so much for putting your knowledge out there and very easy to understand
Wow, finally someone who took Psychology to control themselves better, rather than to try and control other people! 👏👏👏👏👏
good point!!
He chose the Batman path instead of the Hugo Strange path ;)
Haha
I watch the bioneer regularly, never disappointed. I have gained so much knowledge from this channel and has really had such a positive impact on my training and life in general.
Thanks Mr Bioneer
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I heard the CBT acronym and i really got scared until you remembered me it means something different in psychology. Oh boy the internet has really done something to my mind.
ohhh hohoho Rooster and Ball Torture, took me a second but I got it
Literally just watching through older stuff wondering when the next Bioneer vid was dropping. Thanks Adam!
Can't believe I only just stumbled across your channel. The very best channel in this genre I have seen. What a genuinely likable guy you are too!
I've personally been diagnosed with ADD, and for a very long time I did not agree with the diagnosis as it was basically a long questionaire with many of the symptoms listed being explainable by other factors in your life. Maybe I do have ADD, but one thing I started to notice as I got older was just the feeling of being cognitively impaired. It started with mental maths, which unsuprisingly I wasn't doing any of. It became concerning when it fed into my memory and attention. I was a very introspective person that loved communicating ideas and concepts that I found interesting. As I was getting older, this was actually becoming a struggle. It was difficult to find the right words, I was finding it harder to guage a persons engagement and tune into whether this was clear to them. At work I was struggling to explain things that had happened earlier in the day or completely forgot whatever happened the day before. I literally thought I had pre-dementia and it seemed to be getting worse over time. What I noticed was a relationship between stress. I wasn't sleeping well, even when I did I would still feel very fatigued. I stopped having a personal life as my anxiety grew. My frequent mistakes weren't going un-noticed at work either where I could see people rolling their eyes when I spoke and even mention I had the memory of a goldfish when I failed to remember certain things, and was even accused of being stoned from how jaded I was. Which was really crushing as I had no social life and hadn't had a drop of alcohol in months. My environment was essentially starving my brain of what it needed to be healthy and this was causing a decline. I then had to make changes. This started with decision fatigue. I noticed that certain aspects of my recreation, were actually quite taxing. As I wasn't resting properly, I decided to cut out reading the news and playing online chess. From this alone I started making less mistakes at work. Physical activity throughout the day, was also perking me up, giving me little boosts throughout the day. At this point I was getting aches and pains and to deal with this I started taking collagen tablets which worked nearly immediately indicating I wasn't getting the right balance of protein in my diet. I also found creatine was giving my brain a boost, yet this started to produce on and off stomach issues, which became better as I dropped the frequency from once a day to once a week. The real game changer came mostly on the supplement and nutrition side. I cut out coffee, and began drinking alot more plain water. For me I think I may have a blood pressure issue which makes me more susceptible to the effects of dehydration. Despite having plenty of caffiene when I was younger, at this point in my life it doesn't seem to suit by body, I just wake up feeling like I hadn't slept despite not having any issues falling asleep or waking up in the night. The game changer came in the form of lions mane mushrooms. From the first pill, it felt like the other half of my brain had woken up and I didn't have to put any effort into my memory. I felt 10 years younger, but there was a cost. I was getting more fatigued and emotionally I felt numb, which then began to progress into headaches. I noticed that I now needed to eat more, take more vitamins, be more hydrated and with the addition of fatty acid supplements, I can now take lions mane and not feel a single negative symptom. It's greatly benefitted me, however if you are going to take neutropics, be mindful that your situation is unique and you may have to make a lot of changes to see a good outcome. One thing I would have changed is take more consideration of other factors such as my work environment, social life etc, instead of being a guinea pig to new drugs.
Thanks for sharing your story. Seems like you've been through plenty of shit. I like you're doing better now, keep it going :)
I have to thank you because i also have ADD and the symptoms you listed here are the same ones i have, much less than you in certain things because i probably am younger. Anyway i wanted to ask you if you improved your lifestyle just by eating the right things and doing sports. Is It all I can do? Did you have other lifestyle changes that helped you with ADD?
@@leondelmonte7723 that's quite hard to answer. As I've improved my nutrition and have improved my fitness they have become weaker factors overall, however how they interact with the other factors that I focus on isn't clear cut. So nowadays hydration is one of my biggest factors for brain fog. This could purely be because I exercise more and therefore need a higher baseline of water. Sugar is also higher on the list than exercise, if I have something like orange juice I'll get a noticeable sugar crash and brain fog, but that could just be sugars relationship with water.
Regardless your body chemistry and lifestyle is different to mine. You won't get the same results and over time you will also have to focus on different things. My main suggestion is to just make changes that you know you can maintain and just see what happens. Use that to become more intune with your health. You can then just fine tune things until you have a balance that works for you.
The protocols I follow now don't feel like work as they offset the fatigue that I had without them, but I also expect that they will change over time. Here's a list of what seems to be most significant to my brain fog, but generally they aren't independant factors.
Lions Mane > Hydration > Sugar crash > Caffeine excess > Exercise > Alcohol > Nutrition > Sleep
I'm only 25 but my cognitive functioning is getting worse and worse. My psychologist was suspecting I have ADD as well. I really wanna change my life, but because I'm extremely slow, I often work for 12h daily, 10h in better days (even though I only get paid for 8). At home I also do chores slowly so I almost have no time for anything in my life. I never heard on the internet about someone being so slow it affects their life so badly, but I think I blame it on my lack of focus, lack of energy/bad condition, and losing track of time. Now I have summer vacation and my goal is to do calisthenics and stretching, meditation (I already started meditating regularly a month ago) and to focus on a good diet and being hydrated. I really hope things will get better one day. Thank you for sharing your experience, it's motivating to me to see I'm not the only one with similar struggles. I wish you best.
@@wolfgangd3653 Good luck, I'd like to hear if you notice any changes over the next few months.
This is why I've subbed to the bioneer. This is the type of thing I love and enjoy. Thank you for putting the time and effort into making an amazing video like this.
Your literally one of the best most healthiest channels to watch out their. Genuinely good for you❤
performance anxiety at the urinal sometimes happens to me too. it's mostly embarrassing because it's irrational. if I can't get it going sometimes flushing the urinal does it. but if it doesn't I'll just zip up and walk away and not worry about it. if anyone is noticing they might be having the same problem so just leaving makes things less awkward.
Thanks for sharing! One of the techniques that worked for me is called “hypothesis testing.” Basically, you intentionally stand there for like 15 minutes and thereby demonstrate to yourself that nothing so bad happens. It’s not super fun but it works well!
@TheBioneer "people would think I'm just hanging out in there like I'm a weirdo"
And your solution was to hang out in there for a quarter of an hour?
I love your content but that's hilarious
@@probablyryan8151 it's not like anyone is going to ask you why you're staring at a blank wall in front of a urinal for 15 minutes. nope, just you asking yourself why you're staring at a blank wall in front of a urinal for 15 minutes.
I sometimes hold my breath and think i won't gasp for air until I pee. It actually works a lot of the time
Just do a reverse kegel and push the piss out
The stuff you described about ADD was similar to what I experience. I am diagnosed, and even the stuff like taking a minute to warm up in a conversation if im not expecting it is accurate. The regular mistakes you make often, disorganised in school etc. and also the big idea thinking is something similar to what I do, I even have multiple notes on my phone about different things I think about like business ideas. You even mentioned "scatterbrain" which is a word I'm all too familiar with.
It's actually funny that you mention micro workouts throughout the day to combat sluggishness and brain fog. The working theory for ADD is that its a dopamine deficiency in the brain, causing the brain to be very interest based and reliant upon maintaining dopamine. When it gets low you start feeling more restless, making worse decisions, feeling lethargic like you cant move etc. Coincidentally, workouts are one of the best ways to up your dopamine. I found it fascinating how that helped your brain fog and sluggishness, because these are two of the most common symptoms reported for ADD.
ADD and similar diagnoses may be "trendy" now, but I think part of it is just people realising they have it because more attention is brought to it. So don't feel bad about thinking you have ADD, you very well may have it, it's worth having a look at.
That aside, excellent video. It made watching a 40 minute video seem like a 20 minute one, your editing style is great.
This 40min video also felt like 20min for me too, although that might have been due to watching it at double speed.
Scatterbrain plagues my life. I always have 20 different ideas, concepts, new goals/interests floating around, and I will hyper-fixate on one for 48 hours, and then forget about it completely.
Last week I spent two days learning photoshop non-stop as I wanted to start a clothing brand, and then forgot about the whole idea 😂
I also absolutely cannot organise my work schedule and school life.
My doc has suggested I get assessed for ADHD/ADD a couple of times, but I haven't really gotten around to it.
Do you mind if I ask about your current condition? Do you take any medication for ADD? And were you diagnosed early on?
@L H I don't take medication at the moment. I wasn't diagnosed early. I think its more common with ADD to go undiagnosed because the more obvious hyperactive symptoms of ADHD aren't profound. Those are the ones parents, teachers etc. dislike and notice from a young age. But what you describe does sound very similar to my experiences.
ADHD is very real very real but of course i'm projecting from my expereince, it's night and day when taking the right meds and yes i work out too 4 to 5 a week and eat pretty good maybe not as good as you but better than most, when my friend who pre debetic, eats like shit, sleeps like shit can organised his calender and his wife and his team as-well as doing lots of web work and tax returns and i'm struggling just opening a email and replying let me tell you how f#ing heartbreaking it is and a six pack or hiit workout ist all it, I def agree workouts and eating right make ya feel great, good way to damper depresion and makes ya strong and makes ya have more energy with kids and women : ) but doesnt dramatically change someone with adhd for concentration of mental tasks and of course depends on the spectrum.
@@mattng4707Thanks for saying this I have ADHD and I bounce back and forth when I see other people saying you can just eat better and train and it will go away. So it makes me feel like meds are not the answer but I’m starting to find out that it’s a combo of everything. I gotta stop bouncing on an off the meds and stick with them.
Love the side angle when you talk to the camera :)
Thanks! It’s new 😁
5:32 that’s the weirdest phobia but also super endearing and relatable. Good for you for being brave enough to share something that weird
ive been questioning around about this fobia, my girlfriend has it. Turns out like 5 people in my close circle have some level of this phobia. I think it is pretty common especially around women it seems.
Bashful bladder is not uncommon. Everyone figures it 2 or 3 days into boot camp.
One of the most important nutrients for my brain is potassium. I have so much more mental energy and clarity when I consume enough potassium. The average adult needs 4700mg of potassium everyday and very few people consume that much. So I highly recommend eating more foods that are high in potassium.
This was totally fascinating! just a few weeks before i discovered your channel i had finished reading the book "Keep Sharp" by Sanjay Gupta and had sparked a big interest in training my brain. So imagine my delight when finding that your channel not only focuses on the physical aspects of training that i want to pursue but also covers a ton of mental training. I can't thank you enough for all of this amazing info!
I want to join in on this discussion. I watched the the video in its entirety and it is very well thought out and I am VERY glad that SOMEONE is trying to bring brain training into light and how heavily under-utilized it is.
That being said, I don't necessarily agree with some of your perspectives on focus/working memory mainly because from what I have learned through my own metacognition is that they are stemming from something more fundamental. Now, do note that I do not think you are entirely wrong on these components and they are extremely beneficial to train.
That being said, I will try to explain my own model and I wonder if it'll maybe give you some more insight or even more questions, and I believe it's a more fundamental approach to think about and it becomes unbelievably transferrable to every skill (from what I experienced). And as a disclaimer, I do not necessarily have studies to back up my thought processes, rather this is a more intuitive and holistic approach that aims to make it easy to train certain aspects of the mind.
So, basically just imagine a triangle with 3 components: Memory, Thinking, and Reading. A very simple trichotomy, but big emphasis on memory. There are 2 other components as well, but they are off to the side: Focus and Emotion.
Now to briefly explain the 3 main components as they are the most fundamental (memory is the most important): Reading is the intake of information, Thinking is the processing of information, and Memory is the storage of information. Very simple, right? Focus enhances all 3 of these components by a certain factor depending on how trained the focus is, and emotion comes into the mix as they may influence these components depending on the emotion. All these components are happening all at once no matter what, you cannot isolate them in actual practice, but only think about them by themselves.
Now if we enhance these main components we have: Critical Thinking, Speed Reading, and Super Memory. All of these are actually transferrable to any skill if you truly understand this model. However, there may be some confusion when thinking about these components, and it's that strictly "verbal" or pertaining to words. This is not the case, for example, when I am referring to reading, this can mean the intake of information when you look through the rear-view mirror in a car. So, point is, don't limit this model to words (they can be applied to words though, just not the other way around!)
For now, I'll stick to these main components and translate your findings that you laid out for us in the video to this model: Working memory is quite obviously the memory component, however it's just one aspect of memory so therefore it's a component thats branched out from memory. Next, you talk about visualization and the like, that is actually mostly memory but when you scan and put pieces together through your eyes (as an example), you're actually reading and then thinking turns it into memory. Furthermore, you talk about focus, which is actually just the enhancement of all the components, however it's not actually more fundamental than something like memory. Another one you mention is the big idea meditation, that is actually more of a critical thinking task, although I will admit it can be a form of meditation. The motion skills training is actually a really interesting one and I believe it helps you the most because it's actually correctly utilizing all 3 components, you're actively intaking the information on how your body is reacting and moving (reading), you're imagining and memorizing certain movements (thinking and memory), you're actively figuring out how to move (thinking), and as your practice you employ more of the motion as you remember (memory), so actually it makes sense that it's extremely effective.
What I'm trying to get at from the previous paragraph is that you might not be brain training efficiently from the basic ones you mentioned like N-back and the other training modules you were given. Because they only target one aspect and as a side note for N-back you actually want to use quad N-back instead of dual because of the greater difficulty gives better results (from my personal experience). But back to the point, the actual best brain training is actually training to become a speed reader. The exercises required for speed reading actually utilize both memory (remember the most important) and reading quite heavily and later on as you get better, your thinking becomes required and enhanced as well.
Notice that I keep mentioning memory as the most important, because it is. It's quite literally the key to every skill there is and I do believe it's the fundamental source of our consciousness. You mention only working memory, but that is a small fraction of memory (and theres even a ton of things to working memory that you can train that you didnt mention!). You want to train the entirety of memroy, work on long form training, memory palaces, mind mapping, learn the major system, try to remember dreams, you MUST practice these techniques too or else you'll bottleneck the full capabilities of your memory.
Finally, focus, meditation like you said should be the best for this and I think the practice of focusing on breath shouldn't be overlooked just because it's not easy at first. It becomes easier and transfers much easier. And like I said, it enhances all the components.
Lol, I wrote an essay but I havent put my full thoughts on this topic. I genuinely hope my thoughts don't go to waste here because I have yet to see many people talking about such an important topic that I genuinely believe can change lives if incorporated correctly.
Hope this isnt a too much and I hope you can acknowledge this, If not thats ok im just glad to put my thoughts on a relevant video.
I hope one day I can make my own video on this topic
Thank you again for this content!
Kudos to you sir! You have an immense amount of insight and knowledge in this field!
Any resources/books you could recommend on this subject?
Simple things you can do to improve your brain function (from my expericence)
Read.
Learn languages.
Sleep properly.
Physical exercise.
Diet.
Water (hydration).
Philosophy.
Thinking, mental problem solving (without distractions or sensorial stimulation).
Tracking conversations (subjects and points).
Trying to remeber things, details.
This video made me cry. Seriously. It impacted me in a way I can't describe. I feel like I've found myself again
Wow! So glad to hear it helped :-D
Sparring and attempting meditation has helped a lot. I say "attempting" meditation because I have trouble getting there as your guest described. Thanks for the video. I appreciated the deeper dive.
Ha, I had a feeling you're neurospicy. I've arrived at the conclusion that I'm AuDHD (autistic + ADHD) and I can relate a lot to what you said about your struggles.
Meditation, yoga and regular training (both physical and mental) have been a big game changer for me, so it's great to hear your perspective which aligns with mine in so many points but also has some interesting new insights.
Keep the great content coming!
@Blank shit's 'spensive...
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories:
1- Philosophy/theology
2- Natural sciences
3- Social sciences
4- Arts
5- Applicable sciences
These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
Meditation is the number one thing that has helped me with my insomnia, hands down, and I've suffered from pretty severe insomnia over the years. These days I have the habit of meditating before going to sleep. Some people complain about falling asleep while meditating, but for me this is no problem at all, but rather a desired result when I'm meditating right before going to bed. If I'm meditating during the day, then it's a different story.
Another big thing I've noticed that meditation has helped me with is appreciation of music. I also listen to a few songs before going to bed, so basically I'm sitting on the sofa in a dark room, in a meditative state, listening to music on my headphones with a quiet mind, and I get so much more out of the music this way as opposed to just using music as background noise when I'm doing something else, for example. Attention really does matter.
Overall, meditation is a great way to get to know your mind better, is what I would say. A journey to the self, if you will. At the moment of writing, I've done regular meditation practice for about 5-6 years, so I have some experience, even though I still feel like I'm very much the beginner. Meditation is something I like to do, so there's no pressure for me to do it, and my advice for people trying out meditation would be to not force it. Let it come about naturally.
Anyway, just my two cents. Thank you for the great content, as always.
I often have trouble going to and staying asleep so I'm curious about benefits when it comes to sleep. How do you prefer to meditate? What are you thinking or doing?
@@joshuaw8873 I just allow my mind to empty itself and become silent. The important thing is to not try to force it but rather allow it to happen by itself. If my mind is racing, then I will count my breaths in sets of ten to focus my mind (one inhale-exhale pair is one "rep"). I'll do around 2-5 sets of these and then leave the counting out. Allow yourself to breathe naturally, don't force your breath. In the beginning I needed to use the counting technique more, but with experience, it feels like I can more readily just tune into the silence. As for the posture, I think whatever feels comfortable is good. Most often I sit on the sofa or lie down when meditating.
I suppose in my mind what I'm doing is observing. Observing my thoughts, observing the silence, or observing ambient noises, or music, and then just being. It's a little hard to explain because there is not much to explain. It just feels like harmony, when you get into it.
🎯 Key points for quick navigation:
00:00:00 *🧠 Introduction to Brain Training*
- Discusses the appeal and misconceptions about brain training.
- Critiques the scientific backing of brain training tools.
- Personal story: 15-20 years of brain training, types of training tried, and its impact.
00:05:42 *💡 Understanding Brain Plasticity*
- Introduction to neuroplasticity and the corpus callosum.
- Experiments with ambidexterity training and its mixed results.
- Discussion on activity transferability, like playing guitar.
00:07:48 *🧮 Working Memory and Cognitive Gains*
- Defines and explains the significance of working memory.
- Connection between working memory and enhanced visual attention.
- Training methods like dual n-back and tools for athletes and military personnel.
00:15:18 *🎯 Focus as a Key Component*
- Discussion on focus as an underlying trait for better working memory and brain function.
- Theoretical overlap between working memory and focus.
- Exploration of meditation as a method to enhance focus and cognitive performance, with varied personal experiences.
00:18:37 *🧘 Meditation and Self-Improvement*
- Meditation has provided a sense of calm and focus, reducing stress.
- It takes approximately six weeks of consistent practice to notice significant benefits.
- Different forms of meditation, like gratitude meditation and body scans, enhance self-awareness.
00:22:56 *🧠 Big Idea Meditation*
- Non-directive meditation allows the mind to wander, enhancing creativity and problem-solving.
- "Big idea meditation" involves brainstorming solutions to complex challenges.
- This practice led to breakthroughs and success in app development and other creative projects.
00:26:37 *🏃♂️ Movement and Skill Training*
- Movement and skill training improve working memory more effectively than traditional cognitive exercises.
- Activities like martial arts and balancing require focus on multiple tasks simultaneously, enhancing cognitive skills.
- This training approach surprisingly transferred improvements to dual back performance and other cognitive tasks.
00:34:04 *📖 Career and Cognitive Development*
- Career activities, like programming and writing, significantly impact brain function and cognitive abilities.
- Different careers require using varied brain areas, influencing problem-solving approaches.
- These changes are a result of unintentional brain training through specific work tasks, leading to enhanced cognitive skills and efficiency.
00:38:34 *🧠 Breakthroughs and Mental Enhancements*
- Importance of deep thinking, meditation, and neurotropics,
- Big idea meditation combined with focus meditation can enhance cognitive function,
- Movement and skills training have positively impacted working memory.
00:39:15 *💊 Nootropics Discussion and Ethical Stance*
- Personal experiences with nootropics and their complex effects,
- Avoidance of detailed discussion due to potential negative influence and personal ethics,
- Promotion of Patreon for more in-depth content discussion.
00:41:07 *🌐 Building and Utilizing Websites*
- Brain development's application in creative projects like website building,
- Squarespace's user-friendly platform for website creation without coding,
- Features like content scheduling, social media integration, e-commerce tools, and analytics for enhancing business strategies.
I'll have your comment printed on my wall *praise emoji*
ha just read Made with HARPA AI, actually great
Another wonderful video! I especially appreciate how you included information about techniques that *haven’t* seemed to work particularly well for you. This is helpful!
The amount of effort ive had to overcome my specific ADHD symptoms is unbelievable. Ive had it since i can remember. As a kid i specifically thought i was trapped in my own mind. I couldnt speak, i couldnt focus, id fall a couple times a day. While growing up in general helped me pratice enough to speak and walk straight, ive felt like i hit a limit. Ive felt stuck like i did years ago all over again. Ive completely switched my mindset into not forcing work but training for future work. Meditation alone has helped. Same with positive affirmations. This video though has given me a lot of raw motivation to take it up another level. Id like to not just feel normal but actually productively output. I finally have that direction to walk. Something to strive for and not just a future of more suffering. Even if it never fully goes away, im going to use these ideas to push myself. Ill at the very least have fun learning these skills ive completely neglected. Thank you for the inspiration!
Hey mann i read your comment and found it pretty relatable as i have adhd too. The way u had trouble walking wheb u were a kid and other things might not be adhd relatated tho. Im def no expert just have experience. Mb look into DCD or Dyspraxia (its the same thinf) its xan be common with ppl with autism or adhd and very often gets wrongly or not diagnosed. Mb this is bs or mb i helped u anywayyy enjoy ur life :)
I feel you bro, I remember feeling like I can't trust my feet when I walk. I remember sitting down to do my homework and not being able to write a single word until in secondary school I just procrastinated all day and not even starting. This caused me to build up an enourmous amount of anxiety.
It took me to be at my worst for years to finally get the diagnosis which gave me a second chance at 25yo.
Some of the issues are resolved through meds, some through my constant investigation of mind and body but the first vital step was to develop acceptance and self-forgiveness.
I still have a lot of catching up to do but I can see the light and life is kinda okay now, sometimes even great.
Life is a journey.
I believe in you, man.
Harry Lorayne's books have helped me a lot. Dude had ADHD and dyslexia.
This video is such a masterpiece. I think that nowadays people have acesss to so much powerful and actually practical and useful information, and yet, there are very few who actually apply those tips and pieces of advice to real life. If more people learnt these things, life would be much easier and joyful.
Love the working memory findings. Thats great news to hear for someone with adhd
Dude you’re so cool. No joke. Taking a childhood dream and running with it takes some big balls. Good on ya.
Coincidentally, I am a psychology student currently mastering in Neuropsychology, who has developed an interest on motor systems and now I see your channel and you seem to have had a similar life story!
Thanks dor youe honesty. Both the industry and society needs more men like you.
Just came across you. Have been thru the same and you’re amazing to show your journey with ADHD that’s mid understood to most 🙏 keep growing your mind and look forward to seeing where you grow to in the future ✨
You did WHAT?! Say sorry and wipe it off!
@@moonboots1003?
adam, PLEASE make a video about your ambidexterity training
I did a couple years back! But I may revisit it in future :-)
I did a 10 day silent meditation retreat and my biggest takeaway is that we are capable of anything we want. I never thought I would be able to still my mind ever and I’m a pretty confident and ambitious person. I saw how long it took and how much effort it required. It took me around 13 hours of meditation over three days until I could have a decent amount of control over my thoughts and focus. That was day three of the 10 day meditation retreat. Keep in mind I went into it super competitively and with a lot of willpower. For those three days it felt like I was trying to carve a sculpture out of a boulder with a would stick, constantly standing there beating on this boulder getting absolutely nowhere but for some reason still trying to sculpt. I feel like the actual act of this is what prompts the brain to be good at it. It is irrelevant how much progress you’re making ONLY the importance you place on the task. After the three days it was like the wooden stick was upgraded to a tiny hammer. ASMR type , slightly better than a wooden , every day my carving tool would be upgraded. That’s what it felt like. Our brain is absolutely insane and capable of whatever we’re willing to put effort into. that’s all I could think after the 10 days if I just dedicate will power time focus and effort into just one thing I can legitimately do anything it has been proven by myself.
I feel like the basics are often very underrated. Do as a child does: be attentive, genuinely curious (absorbing knowledge like a sponge), ask questions, try out different activities, learn because you want to and talk about your day (like what you have been doing and learning, which strengthens your memory as well). It’s so much about mindset and also about habits, if your mindset is beneficial it is easier for you to tap into good habits. Combine it with a healthy and yummy diet, which makes you feel energised and happy. Have fun doing sports or being active. Try some meditation or whatever might be useful to you.
Beautifully said
As a kid asking questions too much makes me be scared of being annoying,I don't have any friends nor money nor permission to go out I can't absorb knowledge that doesn't interest me and being attentive is hard
One hugely useful but underrated exercise can be summed up in a single word... Philosophy..
It helps with focus, creativity, the ability to create a picture of someone else's world view.
Working memory gets a huge boost when you get to a level where you can compare philosophical concepts from different authors...
Thank you for all the great content
I 100% agree. That’s basically what I mean by big idea thinking, though you have other options (like the mentioned hypothetical plots). Thanks! :-)
@@TheBioneer I know that is exactly what you mean! I've been training in "semantic mindfulness/empathy" for a while now😂
I also do the begining of the universe, squaring the circle attempts and it is great exercise but also great fun... The beauty is that the more you do the better/more efficient you become and the easier it becomes... There comes a point where it comes naturally in everyday life under all circumstances without having to think about it until your head hurts...
Philosophy has a bad reputation because it seems to most like a lot of far fetched words but the true value is learning to create a mental and logical toolkit that allows you to not only grasp the meaning of the words but to understand the underlying sense that emerges from the way the words are related to each other and to the context... It gives "peripheral vision" on a level beyond the eyes! I would advise studying philosophy not to know "what to think" but to develop one's own method on "how to think" by borrowing or inventing whatever mental instruments work well 😉
Ps... Bruce lee is the perfect beginner guide to what I mean by how to think... The true philosopher uses words/forms as an instrument but is not limited to or by them... Be like water, friends, especially when you think! ✌️
giving us this material for free is an incredible gift
Staying away from bad habits and using the brain the way it’s designed has helped me massively with storing details in my mind.
? how's it meant to be used
@@smelly1060 Im not a brain expert yet I think it’s apparent that as humans we are designed to move and exercise regularly, which requires our brain to work in tandem with our muscles and joints. So I’m saying that there is a link between functional movements and good cognitive ability because the brain and body are connected.
@Gave Doggins they're the same thing. This body/brain being different is wrong. The body and brain are one thing.
@@KalisFlame I understand.
I was wondering when is new Bioneer video coming and I opened RUclips only for you man and BOOM here it is 🤓
Your channel and the experiences you share are nothing short of life changing. I would hug you if I was there!
Hey Adam,
I have been following your videos on RUclips for quite some time, since you offer a scientific perspective on exercise and human performance. I have studied psychology and sports science I really resonate with your content and you inspire me to take on different approaches and perspectives training myself and my clients. After watching this video I took on the objective for myself to start a new martial art, jiu jitsu. I did judo in my youth and underwater rugby was my alternative to that in my early to mid twenties. I had an underlying urge to get back into martial arts for a while now and i just signed up in a sports club for said jiu jitsu. Thank you so much for the inspiration. Keep up the good work and content. You influence more and more people every day. I hope to get a point where i can positively influence people even outside my immediate circle. If you read this message I would be happy if you reply, so I might pick your brain on how you started out with Youtubing and social media.
Agreed on the skills training. Ever since I started doing martial arts consistently it's improved my mind.
With respect to meditation: there are huge benefits from following the ancient traditions. Aligning yourself correctly by meditating in the lotus posture will make significant improvements in your ability to focus one-pointedly, to balance and harmonise the energies within the body, and how to transcend the stream of thoughts and emotions, which is Samsara. There is a subtle energy body that different traditions will cultivate in different ways. For example, the Tibetan practice of Tummo sends Wind energy (Qi) up the central channel to clear blockages from 4 particular chakras in order to generate extremely blissful states and experience the clear light nature of mind. Or the Daoists who use the microcosmic orbit for longevity, astral projection and ultimately to become a Daoist immortal. Alternatively, Soto Zen Buddhism teaches that by generating the mind of great compassion (the bodhi mind) and then placing yourself in the lotus posture, you are manifesting your own Buddha-nature and you then have to practice until you realise this for yourself. I have practised in all three traditions and they definitely work from my own relatively limited perspective. They also make your life incredibly meaningful.
Love the honest approach to better yourself.
There is nothing more pleasurable than reaching humans all limits.
Brain training helped me gain use of my non dominant hand. Before when I’d be tasked with a job I’d work mostly using my dominant hand and using my non dominant for stability and just a little help. I’ve been watching your channel for ever it helped me get strength back and I feel as if I’m whole. Some part of being able to not worry about reactions or involuntary action that brings me peace of mind, makes me feel rooted
Adam you asked for feedback. After meditating sporadically all my life I finally made a iron commitment and have been meditating 90 mins a day since then for over 5 years consistently (have yet to miss a day). I have noticed slow but steady changes which seem to be very slowly accelerating. These changes are entirely consistent with the focus comments in your video and I actually think I can feel my brain changing (could say why but that would be a longer conversation) I am now able to sit comfortably for the 90 mins and I find enlarged periods when I have No wandering thoughts just pure unverbalised awareness ie no internal commentary. Also still have days when I am all over the place but these are becoming less common. I could say more but this post is way long already. My takeaway big change happening but very slowly and only after applying a very substantial effort over a quite long period of time. In simple terms “you get what you pay for “.
90mins a day? Wow, I'm jealous. With kids around I would be happy finding 30 mins for meditation and not falling a sleep.
90mins per day is a lot I have had noticable benefits after just 10mins a day. Did you delve into different schools of meditation and see if any of them make a difference? Some have recognizable stages of experiences you go through.
Or perhaps you should try a retreat.
You truly are inspirative, thank you Bioneer
Lots of gems here! The "big idea meditation" concept reminds of Rich Hickey's programming talks where he describes his method of getting the basic info in his head, then sitting or lying down with his eyes closed to just think about it all, without trying to force a solution until the next day after sleeping on it.
I am enjoying learning about your effective and exploratory approach to life.
Thank you for brining up the subject of working memory. I find it very interesting as I get older and am learning to deal with how my mind has changed. I think it would also be cool to hear some of your musings, especially the crazy ones as those are the ones that lead more questions and musings and growth (IMO). It has been those types of conversations with my friends that I treasure and I think have helped me grow as a person. Looking forward to your next video!
A 43 min Bioneer video? Count me in!
I’m very grateful for people like you 😂
@@TheBioneer and we are grateful for you! Findind this channel changed my life. Feel better at 30 than I did at 20.
A very valuable video! Keep up the good work Adam!!!
Have you tried neural feedback training? I’m going to start tomorrow with the the initial brain scan and I’m very excited about it. Great video! 🙏🏼
i’ve only just started to get interested in brain training and ways to enhance the way i think since i’ll be using my brain a lot more than my actual literal strength. pretty insightful video 10/10
Whats ur experience, can u share it plz ?
@@noor-rrr been playing the word game that you need to remember each new word. it has helped my short memory a lot but outside of that i got busy and forgot about brain training😅
@@lluviatibia8722 much appreciated!
I like ur honesty 👍
The problem with big idea meditation is that if you are easily distracted then its not easy to keep track of everything and connect the dots. This is where notebooks are useful. The other problem is that people are likely to get stuck in that emotional state. So focused meditations is always essential.
Anger is addictive. There was a study with people who had buttons that stimulated different emotions. Anger was the most liked.
I'd love to watch a video of your thoughtful questioning. I think it would be a good exercise in abstract thinking, that a lot of people could benefit from. Love your content. You bring an excellent perspective and a wonderfully engaging presentation of information. Thank you for all that you do!
I guess I kinda do big think already, I like walking through memories, remembering as many details and were items were placed and how they sat, it requires quite a bit of focus, depending on how detailed you go.
Adam, I speak for myself and everyone else...We all appreciate you. You have made an impact on so many people. You're so genuine. Happy for you and your family buddy. Keep doing your thing man we here.❤
Mr. Sinicki, I m a Historical fencer...originally from Puerto Rico but I moved a while back to Springfield MO to works on health care. I and a friend here we are big fans of your work, publications and video blog. I was wondering , would you be interested on look into our specific( and a bit of out of the ordinary historical martial art/sport) discipline and do a series of videos? Let s say about Longsword practice for example. Key words: Historical European Martial Arts, HEMA, Longsword.
One of the best channels out there, and strong Frogs into Princes (Bandler and Grinder) vibes on this one.
I grew up slightly mentally disabled. My short term memory was non existent and I found many different methods to improve that but they are mostly chemical based. I started with meditation when I was quiet young, about 14 years of age. Perhaps a side effect of the memory issue was my ability to visualize very strongly as compensation and I had and enormous amount of energy. The meditation gave me insights that came as symbols that were associated with solving the problems and I've built upon those foundation stones to the point that I have several brain training and chemical / foods that I take regularly. I can type from memory, while having a conversation with someone on a totally different subject and I'm aware of what's happening. It feels very stimulating. I'm a painter for a living and do landscapes as well as figurative work. My attention span is very long while working but not so long in other regards anymore. It used to be stunning but has been 'trained' out of me by the internet to be much shorter than before. I'm slightly physically disabled as a result of an accident so watching you train is inspiring.
What I've really tried to figure out is how to "program" something conciously into "an instinct" or sorts. It's basically how in martial arts, you try to train a punch or a block to become an instinct or a reflex. Similarly, I've tried to somehow break this process down, to see if I could put a mental workload into an "instinct", to "automate" it. I've had some results with writing fiction, but I think what I've discovered is just a "narrative writing tool", and not be hacking my brain. It's just simple "how to make connections between characters", which culminates to weaving random plot threads in that you can completely ignore, but can pull out later when you figure out something (for example: A random item is not so random after all. The assassin is not just some random hired goon, etc.). But it now happens so... Naturally that it feels like... A hack of sorts. Like that my brain is indeed using this narrative creation tool automatically. It's neat.
I spent my teens smoking and doing drugs. When i turned 21 i had been working out for 9 months and finally found my results. I quickly slumped back into my own ways. Im now a bit older and i think i would have been lovley to had parents that trained me like this when i was young. But i didnt. Therefore i will become rhe best self i can. Through all the troubles and tribulations i have set myself in the past. I look onward and upward because looking down never got me anywhere
One of the more interesting videoes I've watched. Good job man!
Great you've come back to to brain training.
I feel the exactly same way he spoke about about 27 mins in. I’m natural creative, deep thinker and all the above… I have trouble meditating as well. It’s been years I’ve been trying off and on. It’s my focus. I can’t slow my brain down.
As someone recently diagnosed with adhd, I tend to be unconsciously pulled towards whatever my current hyperfixation is. That can change by the week, months, or year.
What I do to stay productive on the cognitive tasks I need to be doing, is thinking about them in terms of my hyperfixation. So when my task was understanding my mind, I imagined I was sniffing the aroma of wine, which I was interested in at the time.
Now, my interest is gardening, and my task is productivity, so I imagine myself planting seeds, and cultivating myself, providing good nutrients and enough water, balancing microbial life, and giving myself the space and sunlight I need to grow.
So I can genuinely enjoy making sure that I don’t accidentally skip meals or eat too much, I get sunlight during the day, I take care of my physical and mental health, and as a result, I’ve been seeing the fruits of my efforts are much bigger and sweeter.
Just wanted to say thanks for passing the impacts on to me via videos and books.
Thank you for the excellent discussion! I rarely comment, but this resonated strongly. Your concept of "big idea meditation" or "deep thinking" describes the way I've thought about things since before I can remember - I was a bit odd as a young child. 😅 Like you, I did well academically, but always struggled with focus and rote memorization of facts. I've conceptualized these forms of "intelligence" as being inversely correlated. Big picture thinking and novel insights seem to benefit from a wide breadth of knowledge and the ability to perceive tendencies occurring across disciplines (i.e., big ideas) rather than subject specific details.
I personally find ideas to meditate on by looking for the boundaries or holes in my personal "theory of everything." I'll research to get a variety of perspectives from other people, then try to reach an understanding that fits those new perspectives into my existing theory web. If it's a good challenge it literally feels as though I'm willing two neurons to connect. I think of it as analogous to the strain on the body when trying to lift a heavy weight. It may take more than one rep, but eventually things fit into place and I understand something new instead of just knowing some new information. IMHO the USA's education system really does a disservice by rewarding fact retention over deep thinking. Professionally speaking, I've been rewarded far more for the latter.
Thank you lord for this video ..I’ll be returning to school on Aug with the music majors ..I made an error on my last recital so this year it’s on I’m a be hittin em with that stride piano 🎹
Literally summed up as:
1. Meditation
2. Programming
3. Don’t recommend nootropics
4. Intermittent exercises throughout the day
I wish the video was a bit shorter, it dragged on a bit too much
I mean not really. I barely mentioned programming but I do discuss writing, working memory, ambidexterity training, 3D object tracking, skills training (which I recommend as the most beneficial for me), and different kinds of meditation such as big idea meditation. I also discuss the role of ADD and the value of CBT.
Might I recommend a bit of focus training? 😝
@@TheBioneer fair. I re-watched the entire video this time but honestly my point still stands. Essentially besides CBT and meditation (the two things that can change your thought patterns), everything else you mention was pretty subjective and not hitting the 'meta'. Multiple times you mention that skills training was 'profound' for you but never mention how it impacts your day to day, besides the fact that your family has seen 'noticeable changes' (what does that even mean?).
The other activities you listed probably get you better at the activity alone and allow you to transfer techniques to other parts of your life but... that is basically every other activity. Playing basketball does the same thing, so does chess. or swimming.
What i disliked about this video format was that it took me watching the ENTIRE video just to figure out that all of this isn't really 'globally' making you smarter but rather just rewiring your brain to get better at those tasks itself. In each sub-topic, I was essentially waiting for you to say 'and I've noticed in my day-to-day, I can remember xyz faster, things are more vivid, etc' but we never got to that point.
I guess you can't please everyone but for me the video dragged on way too much. Just not my cup of tea but I'm glad you responded.
As someone diagnosed with ADD, those issues you mentioned like starting to move and then recognizing I am going in the wrong direction are painfully familiar. I feel like I have to start moving so my brain comes out of hybernation. Although that cannot really be it.
For 10 years I have been trying to get myself to do meditation every way and now thanks to the waking up app I've managed to do it. So anyone who is interested might wanna try this.
Cool that calisthenics seem to be helpful as I've been interested in it.
Just start playing a game where you constantly need to keep several pieces of information in your head, it's going to improve your working memory tremendously. And the more powerful your working memory is the easier it is to transfer any information from short-term memory into long-term memory.
Personally, I am playing bridge and once in awhile do leetcode problems in python or java. These two activities combined definitely help me to stay mentally razor-sharp as they both develop memory and problem-solving skills.
so play league of legends? got it.
I can tell by the intensity in your eyes that you are always in the present moment
As someone with ADHD that has also struggled with meditation for a long time, I have been having more success recently with an app called Balance. I have tried other meditation and mindfulness apps and other techniques, but so far this has given me the right amount of direction and gentle prodding that I feel like I am getting better at paying attention long enough to see any benefits. I do feel like i have more focus, especially straight after meditating, and I also feel somehow like my brain is better rested (which is weird considering I have been trying to focus on something for 15-20 mins).
Bioneer, sir; ye have forgotten to mention the very most important things: intellectual endevours, and guys plz read these carefully and do try to implement it on yer lives. The intellectual endevours can be constituted in 4 or 5 categories:
1- Philosophy/theology
2- Natural sciences
3- Social sciences
4- Arts
5- Applicable sciences
These are all the fields that are about the "content" of existence; meaning these are about the essence of existence itself therefore; being busy with these not only makes the mind and imagination and analytical skills and verbal skills and awareness (and other fields of the soul, if there's such a thing as soul) much sharper and stronger and detailed; but also gives us information, content information of existence as a whole and its parts. Thus; both reading, consuming these areas, and trying to produce these, meaning trying to add to these areas; are helpful in countless aspects. THese areas mostly are directed towards the target of making us closer and closer to "the wisdom, the truth", maybe we can only exclude the 5th category from this, as the fields on that category are more like tools, rather than being on the existence and its parts themselves; but even the 5th category helps us understand the existence much better, by getting connected to the fields in the first 4 categories. Thus, to improve mind and soul; these intellectual areas are the key and essential points; but of course; strategy games and hobbies such as chess, GO, sudoku, carpentry, gardening, photography eand all that other stuff do help too as great supporters, but never are theythe essentials. One thing I will mention here is arts category, the 4rd one, as people don't know how to approach and conume art-cvlture at all, well the most people. Ye don't just scroll on a painting or a cinema movie fer example; no. Instead; first and foremost ye read some basics on that art area, just to get a bit sense of what it is in general. Then, ye look at a painting; ye observe, ye try to realize different colors and shapes, ye try to realize what is studied and told in the painting craft, ye try to get the soul state that the art tries to give. Ye realize its content and ways. Then of course, ye refer to the professional on that area, about the analysis of that particular art work. Ye do that fer all art areas; cinema, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture, dancing, music, opera, calligraphy, lieral arts, martial arts etc.... Well, actually the ART SIDE of the martial arts are included in dancing anyways.
I think you mean "intellectual endeavors".
im unsure how these seemingly arbitrary fields constitute "the essence of existence" as you claim. What do you even mean by that? I think a lot of people would have a different definition of what that really means. For me, I would describe "the essence of existence" as playing an old game on the sega with my little brother. Sharing a moment with a loved one. Ruminating on tender recollections. I would consider perusing wikipedia articles or other media and consulting these arbitrary enterprises as perhaps the thing placed most furthest from what could be considered "the essence of existence".
How close are _you_ to "the truth"? What do you mean by that exactly?
Only 53k views in 7 days??? Man... this video needs atleast a few million views, so valuable
As someone who started ambidexterity training almost 20 years ago. this is literally the first time I’ve ever come across someone else who has experimented with the same thing, albeit with very different results. I thought I was alone!
What we're your results?
@@tomhilton2751 Essentially I switched from right-handed to left-handed. Took a little while, but now, while I can technically use either hand for just about anything, it feels awkward & just plain unnatural to not use my left hand, in precisely the way it did to use my left when I first started the experiment.
@aetherquill6569 are you pleased with that result? Seems to be that the point us to become ambidextrous not just switch sides?
@@FredAllenBurge Overall, yes. I am functionally ambidextrous for just about everything, from playing tennis to using screwdrivers or paintbrushes or pens or hammers, etc, it doesn’t make a difference which hand I use in terms or ability & skill. My writing is just as good (although different) with either hand. The only thing I can’t do with my left hand is play the guitar, which is simply because I never had access to a left-handed guitar when I was learning to play, and after nearly 20 years of that, I don’t see the point in trying to learn all over again with my left hand.
Great video ! You said the main problem of brain training is that it trains you on one specific training task, and does not allow you to transfer that skill outside in the real world. Yet you did the same mistake with the left-right brain connectivity through left hand training
This was absolutely amazing content…feel so motivated, new sub here
Interesting video, went places I was not exspecting. Much appreciated.
This is such a relateable and honest video.
I've done most of this and can say the best help for your brain is literally to focus on it. That's it! Think about thinking and being aware and try new things.
As a martial artist, I've realised this existence. I've had it but never realised what was it. Thanks for making me realise it❤
Great video 👍
This is a great overview! Thanks Adam!
This video basically makes obvious the creativity of bioneer, he's been talking about out of the box training, flexibility, diets and thought processes since day dot.
Big idea meditation sounds super interesting, I’ve always wondered if there is any major benefits to traditional meditation over mindful walking outside.
Super interesting video as always!🙂
Thank you! I honestly think everyone should give it a go. Huge fan of your channel btw! 🔥
Yes, huge. Aligning yourself correctly by meditating in the lotus posture will make significant improvements in your ability to focus one-pointedly and how to transcend the stream of thoughts and emotions, which is Samsara. There is a subtle energy body that different traditions will cultivate in different ways. For example, the Tibetan practice of Tummo sends Wind energy (Qi) up the central channel to clear blockages from 4 particular chakras in order to generate extremely blissful states and experience the clear light nature of mind. Or the Daoists who use the microcosmic orbit for longevity, astral projection and ultimately to become a Daoist immortal. Alternatively, Soto Zen Buddhism teaches that by generating the mind of great compassion (the bodhi mind) and then placing yourself in the lotus posture, you are manifesting your own Buddha-nature and you then have to practice until you realise this for yourself. I have practised in all three traditions and they definitely work from my own relatively limited perspective. They also make your life incredibly meaningful.
I really enjoyed this video and have saved it to rewatch. When you mentioned ppl's occupations and how this may have changed their brains in one way or another, got me thinking about my brain that is likely mush. I've been ill for over a decade and so have no true occupation. I've tried things here and there (courses, classes, part-time work, care-taking, etc.), but nothing long enough to change my brain. I'm just thinking out loud in case someone in the ether has any thoughts/suggestions.
There is no harm in getting an evaluation! I think you might be spot on. I have watched you for a few years i believe and I definetly see, even through the screen some some symptoms i would assume to be anecdotal for an adult with some great coping strategies who is in a good spot in life. I know you are very wise and can think out a lot of strategies but dont let that knowledge stand in your way for seeking gelp. Even tough you can find great ways to help yourself by your own, and I can see that is what you have done by finding purpose and passion, the evaluation can help you accept the younger you in a way. The app you talk about actually sounds similar to one of many test we use in sweden called QB test! ADHD is usually not what people expect as they often talk about stereotypes based on the hyper type and not the combined type. Love your content and you are great
adhd is not real. we are animals, animals are not supposed to pay attention like we are expected to. youre taking imaginary solutions to a problem thats entirely in your own head. there is no "deficit". you are destroying your mind by displacing from its natural homeostatic state.
I think you can do a creative analogue of your focus task (tracking missed seconds) with kaleidoscopes or the program Electric Sheep, ie. just seeing a complex, seemingly randomly changing beautiful scene.