“Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, And Get More Done”

By Elizabeth R. Ricker

Learning Tricks for Daily Peak Performance

MIT and Harvard Neuroscience-trained Elizabeth Ricker’s best-selling self-help book, “Smarter Tomorrow,” offers readers scientifically-based research techniques for improving learning skills and memory retention through practice, experimentation, and tracking.

Combining today’s pop culture term “hacks,” meaning shortcuts, with neuro (nerves / and relating to the brain), Ricker, and others in the field, use the term neurohacking to find imaginative shortcuts using basic components for uncommon purposes while questioning tradition.

“Smarter Tomorrow” indicates that measurable cognitive improvement is possible with 15-minute daily brain exercises. Each person learns differently, so the key is trying various neurohacking techniques to see what works best for you.

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Title: “Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, And Get More Done”
Author: Elizabeth R. Ricker
Genre: Non-Fiction (Adult) | Self-help | Health, Mind & Body
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Spark,


Sincere thanks and appreciation go to NetGalley, Author Elizabeth R. Ricker, Publishers Little, Brown and Company, and Little, Brown Spark for this Advance Reader’s Copy (ARC) for review.

I enjoyed this book overall. I found reading about the various experiments interesting. Around half way through the book, it really lost steam to me and I found the chapter on AI rather tedious to trudge through. It really dealt with technology and not neuroscience, so it did feel out of place for me. It was qnintriguing read and while I don't necessarily plan to utilize any of the experiments she included, it did help me reflect on ones I have naturally utilized in my life through trial and error of finding what works best for me personally. It also gave me some ideas on how to refocus efforts and test out new possibilities.

This book was easy to understand, informative and offered methods I found really helpful in boosting my memory. Though initially I was not sure what neuro hacking meant and if this read would be within my grasp, I'm pleasantly surprised at how laymen friendly this book is and the 15 minute experiments were very user-friendly and doable! I appreciated the ease of the author's writing style and would highly recommend this book in my educators circle and beyond.

This book suggests many ways to experiment with making yourself smarter. I loved the scientific approach and the curating of so many methods that have been studied and shown to work for some people. The book encourages you to use yourself as a test subject and find out what works best for you through experimentation and careful data collection. I especially enjoyed the format of the book which was in short, manageable chapters with success stories and suggested tools.

Wow, so many ways to get smarter. Nutrition, exercise, creativity, placebos, video games, , There is even a schedule for self-experimentation to see what works.