In this episode 8 protocols
▶ 9:14 Visual Focus on a Single External Point Behaviors “So if we're focusing very intensely on a given point, regardless of how far away from us that point is, our visual system engages a certain set of neurons, neural circuits that are involved in resolving fine detail and that can evaluate small changes over small periods of time.” ▷ 12:08 Positive Visualization at the Start of Goal Pursuit Behaviors “That visualization is effective in getting the goal pursuit process started, but it actually is a pretty lousy and maybe even counterproductive way of maintaining pursuit of that goal. If you're going to visualize in a positive way, do that at the very beginning of some goal pursuit.” ▷ 12:38 Foreshadow Failure Behaviors “It's about visualizing failure. If you look at the literature, the scientific literature, there's a near doubling, near doubling the probability of reaching one's goal if you focus routinely on foreshadowing failure.” ▷ 20:27 Weekly Goal Progress Review Behaviors “I think that checking in at the end of a week, looking back on the previous week and assessing how well you performed in pursuit of a given goal or how many times you did something that you wanted to do or avoided something that you didn't want to do. I think that's a reasonable and tractable schedule to assess once a week.” ▷ 22:13 Caffeine Supplements “And some people leverage this by using things like caffeine or taking things like L-tyrosine to increase dopamine.” ▷ 22:13 L-Tyrosine Supplements “And some people leverage this by using things like caffeine or taking things like L-tyrosine to increase dopamine.” ▷ 22:20 Use Behavioral Tools Before Supplements Behaviors “I'm a particular fan of using behavioral tools always prior to using supplementation or any kinds of other tools, because behavioral tools have a very unique feature that supplementation and other chemical tools don't, which is that behavioral tools used over time engage neuroplasticity.” ▷ 25:03 Space-Time Bridging Behaviors “And this is something that in the past I've talked about a little bit and I've talked about something called space-time bridging. And we haven't talked too much about the time domain of the visual system today. But space-time bridging is simply a way of using one's visual system to focus on the peripersonal space and interoception, and then gradually, in a deliberate way, stepping one's focus into the extra personal space and then back to the peripersonal space.”