When you start reading this article you'd think the "scientists" had found the holy grail, until you read the last paragraph........ I'm sure three fourths of FAT America let out a sigh on that paragraph. (Highlighted below)
Train Your Brain to Work Like Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, & Top Navy SEALs
By Jade Scipioni Published April 11, 2017 Technology
According to “Stealing Fire” authors Steven Kotler and Jamie
Wheal—there’s a new $4 trillion high performance revolution fueling the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and high profile executives in Silicon Valley and Wall Street to the top of their game—but no one on the mainstream level knows about it yet.
“It’s a simple idea that our regular waking state of consciousness, what we would call 21st Century normal—tired, wired and stressed—is just not the best tool for the jobs that we are faced with and the challenges of today. And the ability to shift our states—deliberately, intentionally and productively—is one of the best ways for people to heal trauma [and] boost learning [and productivity],” Wheal tells FOX Business.
Wheal and Kotler spent four years researching how Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk as well as top Navy SEALs are using technology to reach altered states of consciousness -- or a “flow state” -- to achieve ultimate performance.
Last month, Navy Rear Admiral Tim Szymanski told reporters during a conference in Washington, D.C. that Team 6 has been testing out special headsets that stimulate the brain to help the user maintain peak performance for several hours.
“The Navy is exploring multiple cognitive enhancement technologies to improve mental and physical performance. We plan on using that in mission enhancement,” Szymanski said. “The performance piece is really critical to the life of our operators.”
The headsets from Halo Neuroscience were originally designed to help athletes improve on physical training by stimulating the part of their brain responsible for muscle movement. And it’s not just the military experimenting with brain enhancing tech—but also Wall Street, according to Kotler.
“We’re seeing Wall Street traders zapping their brains with electros to kind of knock themselves out of normal waking consciousness before they are moving onto the trading floor,” Kotler says.
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However, both the authors say that you don’t need to spend a fortune on high-priced gadgets to achieve your “flow state.”
“What we learned in this research is by sleeping more, by having a regular diet and nutrition practice. By moving consistently—by actually getting off our butts to increase neurological performance that actually gives us time back, because we are more effective in the time we do deploy versus always kind of ‘on’ and never fully recovered,” says Wheal.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/...avy-seals.html
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