You've seen how to hack your health, then hack your brain. But it's tiring to work on oneself relentlessly. How do you keep the motivation? Now hack the hacks!

1. @abelar_s - maitre-du-monde.fr
hAcK yOuR MOtiVAtiOn
« Hack Your Brain »
This is the second part of
« Hack Your Brain » series:
managing your time, habits
and motivation using your
brain’s elasticity.
@HumanTalks 12/03/2013
Trivia: https://speakerdeck.com/abelar_s/hack-your-brain-trivia

2. Who am I?
‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB
‣ Ruby since 2006, Rails since 2007
‣ Asking questions since 1984
This talk follows...
‣ Health tips from geek to geek
‣ Hack Your Brain - for introduction
‣ H.Y.B. Trivia - for my science heroes

3. Hack Your Brain Nikola Tesla
Previously on HYB...
‣ Intelligence
‣ just know you can
‣ Expertise
‣ deliberate practice
‣ Memory
‣ create links and emotions
‣ Toolbox
‣ make it simpler, question it
... now hack the hacks!

4. Starting blocks Cicero
Why & How?
would you want more
motivation?
‣ Unsatisfaction
‣ why change if you’re happy?
‣ Laziness
‣ makes you try to optimize

5. Willpower Jean-François Champollion
Willpower is a muscle
‣ strengthen it
‣ find your limit
‣ then push it forward!
‣ let it rest
‣ recover

6. Rewards Blaise Pascal
Bribe yourself!
‣ reward work
‣ with actionable results
‣ smart rewards
‣ don’t defeat the purpose
‣ beware of rebound effect

7. Triggers
Train yourself
‣ strengths & weaknesses
‣ seeing X remind you that...
‣ might be a tempting trap
‣ or a hint of shame
‣ build your triggers
‣ hey, it’s 10AM! Have I stretched?
‣ out of work! Do I need to buy...?
‣ on my way, is my TODO OK?
Benoît Mandelbrot

8. Habits Ada Byron-Lovelace
Bypass willpower
‣ routine
‣ a trigger can grow into a habit
‣ then uses much less willpower
‣ in just 66 days?
‣ it’s worth trying right?

9. Social René Descartes
Shame, Pride & Herd
‣ be the worst
‣ become the average
‣ ... of your 5 closest people
‣ same with money
(people feel content if they’re in
the top 20% of people they know)
‣ find role models
‣ or just people you admire

10. Health Ambroise Paré
Bad health
=
Bad decisions
‣ good sleep
‣ healthy food
‣ manage stress
‣ do some exercise

11. Hacks
‣ Temptations
‣ Oscar Wilde’s quote
‣ Obvious failures
‣ Tracking
‣ Avoid obviously bad stuff
‣ Forces you to think
‣ Seinfeld method
‣ Reinforcement
‣ Engagement
‣ Social
‣ pride over shame
Nº1 Sadi Carnot *
* this is Nicolas Léonard SADI CARNOT, there’s a cheat sheet at the end

12. Play! Roger Caillois
Thanks @rwhy for @aral’s talk!
Try
Risk
Fail

13. Wrapping up
‣ Cognitive
‣ Get in good shape
‣ Learn patterns
=> deliberate practice
‣ Sayings
‣ Practice makes perfect
‣ Fake it till you make it
=> don’t panic, you can too
‣ Self perception
‣ Dunning-Kruger Effect
‣ Impostor syndrome
=> track SMART goals, play!
Louis Pasteur
Dark Side version

14. Thanks!
maitre-du-monde.fr
@abelar_s:
- twitter
- slideshare
-speakerdeck
QueStiOnS?

15. Credits
Jason Shen: Willpower talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapb6lZG-zE
Aral Balkan: A Happy Grain Of Sand keynote
http://vimeo.com/43524962
Gotlib: La Rubrique à Brac : Isaac Newtons
GMathieu: Normalien / Centralien / Alien
...
Eratosthenes

16. the CaRnOt Cheat Sheet
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, physique, thermodynamique
Lazare Hippolyte, maths, ingénieur, ministre
Marie-François Sadi Carnot, président de la République
Marie-Adolphe, chimiste, géologue, conseil général de Charente
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite dit le Grand Carnot maths, physique, général
Joseph François Claude, jurisconsulte
Claude-Marie dit Carnot-Feulins, capitaine, député, ministre de l’intérieur