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So how do we fix mental burnout from performin strenuous mental activities?

Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 08:30:49 2019 No.11016394 View Reply Original Report

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>(/r/science) Overtrained elite athletes show decreased activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex and make hasty economics decisions. The same brain and behavioral markers are also seen in people performing strenuous intellectual activity, suggesting a universal center for “burnout” in the brain.

link to full study: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-98221931104-2

So scientists how do we fix this shit? Or how do we increase the time we can spend until mental burnout sets in?
Im willing to do ANYTHING ranging from livestyle changes to consuming obscure nootropics, peptides and research chemicals.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 09:27:03 No.11016480 Report

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Bump

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 09:53:36 No.11016516 Report

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Sport, good diet, sleep well, have a healthy amount of sex and just don't study 4 hours in a row. Use the Pomodoro technique.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 10:38:19 No.11016567 Report

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>>11016394
you can't remove the stress from strenuous intellectual activity, so remove all other stress from your life. willpower is finite, so remove everything that requires willpower. it takes willpower to not look at your phone while you work, but it doesn't require willpower if you left your phone at home.

if you're going to do deep intellectual work, rent a cabin in a rural/natural location, shut off all unnecessary electrical/communication devices and interact as little as possible. this is how Newton made his discoveries, when the Black Plague forced him to leave Cambridge University and return to his rural home.

all the information you really need on this can be gotten from these 4 books, but i concede that applying it practically can be though;

Deep Work - Cal Newport
Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
The One Thing - Gary Keller
Eat that Frog - Brian Tracy

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 10:53:43 No.11016596 Report

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Take a break

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 11:09:19 No.11016621 Report

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From the Discussion section, you can pretty much draw the conclusion that we evolved lazyness to stop our primate brains from doing useless tasks and increasing the metabolic cost for literally no reason. Or as they said it, your subconsciousness loses belief in your ability to plan long-term and retracts the willpower delegated to you, reducing you into someone who can only operate on short-term rewards. If you map human evolution as far back as the occurrence of conscious control, you'd notice that inevitably, we'd be able to do anything we please, including absolutely pointless shit like dancing with the tribe well after we're already exhausted, so a switch which turns on and stops our subhuman brain from wasting energy like this is only logical to evolve. It's a way cheaper cost on evolution to just limit us from expending pointless energy than evolving the muscles, logic and body frame necessary to upkeep our waste for no direct payoff.

So by basing our theory on what I wrote above, it would therefor make sense to use short-term rewards to convert the long-term task (which your subconsciousness will inevitably lose faith in) into a sequence of short-term ones. I personally already know this and reward myself by drinking coffee with sweets only after I've spent an hour reading what I need to read, or with my post-workout shake if I'm lifting, but never before and especially not randomly in the middle of the day when not doing anything (which is a very important thing to avoid when doing this). It's not the ultimate solution because you will never have full control of your willpower, but I'd say that it gave me about a third of boost relative to not doing this at all. Most importantly, I don't have to convince myself every single day that the fruits will pop up 3 years into the future if only I keep following this road as diligently as possible, I just follow it out of the habit formed by the daily stimuli.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 11:38:06 No.11016652 Report

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>>11016394
Eat a high calorie, high nutrient diet.

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 11:49:00 No.11016659 Report

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>>11016394
Sleep 12 hours

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 11:50:02 No.11016661 Report

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>>11016394
Sleep 11 hours a day and meditate for 1 hour a day?

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 12:36:33 No.11016718 Report

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>>11016394
Pray to god for strength, have faith, sleep as much as you need, and meditate OP

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Anonymous Sun 29 Sep 2019 12:44:28 No.11016735 Report

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>>11016661
Redpill me on meditation. Ive read that mindfullness is the best training. Is it worth the time?

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