Training Your Brain for Peak Performance
About this episode
Dr. Pedram Shojai interviews Dr. David Bach about using neurofeedback to accelerate learning and performance.
🎙️ What if your brain could learn in hours what normally takes years? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. David Bach, serial entrepreneur and former physician now leading Optios, a company born from DARPA research on accelerating human performance through neuroscience. David walks through how real-time neurofeedback helped novices move 80% up the learning curve toward expert-level performance in just hours, and shares his vision for an AI-powered coach that integrates every sensor in your life to optimize your focus, energy, and performance in real time. 🎯 What You'll Learn: How DARPA scanned 100 elite snipers to find the neurophysiological correlates of expertise, and how giving novices real-time feedback about that brain state rewired their brains in just 2-3 hours Why neurofeedback works: your brain doesn't know what it looks like when it's performing well, and a closed feedback loop teaches it to find and hold that state on command The gap between research-grade neurofeedback tools and consumer devices like Muse, and why the research-to-product pipeline hasn't yet delivered on its original promise How Optios pulls data from Oura, Whoop, Apple Watch, environmental sensors…
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