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Spark of genius: Zapping the brain improves creativity?

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21 pointsjkuria10 comments

Google “tDcs” or “transcranial direct current stimulation” for more information. The US DoD used it to reduce the time needed to train snipers.

I've heard a myth that engineers tend to have an experience of getting a shock in their younger age.

I don't know whether children who get a shock go for engineering career, OR children who has curiosity on engineering has high probability of getting a shock because they usually play with power socket.

The fact that electricity or head trauma (i.e. blunt instruments) have improved creative output in some individuals suggests to me that many of us may be unwittingly inhibiting our creativity. If so, how and why?

Creativity as in non-incremental, real new creativity, is about connecting things that are not connected. You connect a boulder going down a hill with a Piece of wood a friend carpenters into a table- and you got a wheel.

Now the brain is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to not do things that are not rewarded. Beeing creative means having tons of such connections missfire- and if you do not reward that process over time, by following some of the more plausible misfires- your brain will reduce that behaviour.

Conciously rewarding these missfirings, and not supress them by filtering out "irrelevant nonsense because we already have a ideal procedure" is a way to train for more creativity.

Can't wait for this to catch on as the next big "biohack" amongst silicon valley tech bros. The apotheosis of which will be a ketogenic, microdosing, intermittent fasting, pranayama breathing, Zen yogi brain zapper.

Too late? Heard about this on the "Should this exist?" Podcast.

https://www.haloneuro.com/

Add cold water showers too. :)

I presume this equates to doing the same in the Arctic Sea. That cold shock you get when you hit the water. A true awakening.

You forgot polyphasic sleeping.

That sounds kinda fun.

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