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Brain Hacks: How Your Mind Tricks You Every Day
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ISBN13: 9798253151204
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Your brain was designed to keep you alive - not to make you successful.
Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same mistakes? Why you procrastinate on things you know are important? Or why you can't seem to put your phone down, even when you want to?
The answer is simple: your brain is actively working against you.
Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same mistakes? Why you procrastinate on things you know are important? Or why you can't seem to put your phone down, even when you want to?
The answer is simple: your brain is actively working against you.
Brain Hacks: How Your Mind Tricks You Every Day bridges the gap between complex neuroscience and practical daily life. It reveals exactly how your brain conserves energy, prioritizes immediate rewards, and falls into predictable cognitive traps-and more importantly, how you can hijack these systems to regain control.
Inside this transformative guide, you will discover:
-The Neuroscience of Bad Decisions: Why your prefrontal cortex loses the battle against your emotional brain, and how to stop self-sabotaging.
-The Dopamine Addiction Loop: Why dopamine is not about pleasure, but about craving-and how technology exploits this to keep you hooked.
-The Truth About Procrastination: Why putting things off is actually an emotional regulation problem, not a time management issue.
-The Sleep-Deprived Brain: How fatigue literally destroys your judgment and makes you terrible at assessing risk.
-The Social Brain: How mirror neurons and groupthink force you to make decisions based on the crowd rather than logic.
-Practical Brain Hacks Science-backed methods and mental experiments at the end of every chapter to help you rewire your neural pathways.
This is not a dense academic textbook. It is a practical, high-stakes manual for mental control and self-mastery.
If you are tired of being a passenger in your own mind, this book will give you the wheel.
Inside this transformative guide, you will discover:
-The Neuroscience of Bad Decisions: Why your prefrontal cortex loses the battle against your emotional brain, and how to stop self-sabotaging.
-The Dopamine Addiction Loop: Why dopamine is not about pleasure, but about craving-and how technology exploits this to keep you hooked.
-The Truth About Procrastination: Why putting things off is actually an emotional regulation problem, not a time management issue.
-The Sleep-Deprived Brain: How fatigue literally destroys your judgment and makes you terrible at assessing risk.
-The Social Brain: How mirror neurons and groupthink force you to make decisions based on the crowd rather than logic.
-Practical Brain Hacks Science-backed methods and mental experiments at the end of every chapter to help you rewire your neural pathways.
This is not a dense academic textbook. It is a practical, high-stakes manual for mental control and self-mastery.
If you are tired of being a passenger in your own mind, this book will give you the wheel.
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