Optimize Your Learning & Creativity with Science-based Tools

Creativity has two parts:- Creative discovery mode: shuffling things around, exploring. Playful.- Implementation mode: creating something robust and concrete.- Revisit the work the next day in an alert state and assess whether it is ready for linear implementation.

Once your alertness drop in the afternoon, you can do less cognitive tasks that doesn’t require linear or learning work (like answering emails). In the afternoon, when your alertness is as down as it gets, try NSDR instead of coffee. Then repeat depending on your alertness, use your few intervals of 90 min focus wisely. Here you are often clear, ca... See more

Fasted and low-carb states lend themselves to alertness. Carb-rich states lend themselves to calmness and sleepiness.

When you are very alert, everything is a stimulus, you are very unlikely to suppress an action. You should suppress all incoming stimuli except the one you want to focus on. Best situation for learning is silence. If you are tired, some background noise can increase alertness.