Trick Your Brain into Peak Performance: How to Tap the Hidden Performance Reserve Your Brain Is Keeping From You

About this episode

This episode discusses how to trick your brain into peak performance and explores research on hidden brain reserves.

We’re explaining how to reach your peak performance, what tricking your brain into peak performance means, what the research says about the hidden reserves your brain is sitting on, and 3 ways to trick your brain into peak performance so you can get more out of your workouts, your deep work sessions, and your creative projects. STUDY CITATIONS Stone, M.R., Thomas, K., Wilkinson, M., Jones, A.M., St Clair Gibson, A., & Thompson, K.G. (2012). Effects of deception on exercise performan...

People in this episode

Host: Brandon White

Topics covered

• peak performance
• brain tricks
• exercise
• deep work
• creativity

Keywords

• performance
• brain
• exercise
• deep work
• creativity
• research
• tricks

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