@abelar_s - maitre-du-monde.fr hAcK yOuR brAin These are full-text slides for « Hack Your Brain » The talk’s slides are lighter because too much text annoys and distracts the audience. You will find more details here. @HumanTalks 12/02/2013 Trivia: https://speakerdeck.com/abelar_s/hack-your-brain-trivia mercredi 13 février 2013 

‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB ‣ Ruby depuis 2006 ‣ Rails depuis 2007 GMathieu Who am I ? mercredi 13 février 2013 

Who am I ? ‣ EPITA, Faveod, ParisRB ‣ Ruby since 2006 ‣ Rails since 2007 And I have some heroes. For Science. ‣ they’re in no particular order ‣ they may have much, much more trivia ‣ some of these fun facts might be myths mercredi 13 février 2013 

iNtelliGence Leonardo da Vinci mercredi 13 février 2013 

What is it? Sorry, I can’t and won’t define it ‣ is it some quantity? ‣ you’re smart ‣ he’s talented ‣ she has a gift ‣ or a kind of muscle? ‣ you worked hard ‣ he spent hours on this! ‣ she’s put a lot of effort Albert Einstein mercredi 13 février 2013 

The problem is Kurt Gödel when you’re at a limit ‣ you’re not smart ‣ you’re ashamed ‣ you will never succeed ‣ your ego will not want to try hard things you might fail ‣ work on it! ‣ I failed? I didn’t work enough ‣ Get out of comfort zone ‣ Seek challenges, get better! mercredi 13 février 2013 

Genius! Évariste Galois geniuses don’t exist ‣ that’s about respect ‣ he’s smart? he earned it ‣ don’t dismiss his hard work ‣ and self-respect ‣ you can be a genius too! ‣ it’s never too late mercredi 13 février 2013 

QED Karl-Friedrich Gauss the sky’s the limit ‣ self-fulfilling prophecy ‣ the first step is believing ‣ think you can’t? you won’t! ‣ put the extra effort ‣ go from good to great ‣ rate yourself on 10‘000 not 10 ‣ form habits ‣ make 110% become your 100% ‣ don’t let 80% become 100% mercredi 13 février 2013 

Read more... ‣ The secret to raising smart kids Carol S. Dweck: http://www.scientificamerican.com/ article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids ‣ Sebastian Marshall http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-1-to-10-scale-vs-the-1- to-10000-scale ‣ Derek Sivers https://sivers.org/kimo « There’s no speed limit » ‣ Daniel Tammet « Embracing the wide sky » Daniel Tammet mercredi 13 février 2013 

eXpertiSe http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722 SMBC, by @ZachWeiner mercredi 13 février 2013 

Mastery Grigori Perelman Guess what? I can’t and won’t define it ‣ Beginner ‣ knows some rules ‣ Skilled ‣ knows and applies the rules ‣ Expert ‣ understands the rules ‣ combine them into new stuff ‣ Master ‣ innovates, teaches ‣ breaks the rules, innovates ‣ « feels », has a trained instinct mercredi 13 février 2013 

10‘000 hours ‣ will 10‘000h make me an expert? ‣ deliberate practice ‣ explorations ‣ serendipity ‣ questions Bobby Fischer mercredi 13 février 2013 

Read more... ‣ Terrence Tao : http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career- advice/there’s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ ‣ SMBC ! http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722 ‣ Google « 10‘000 hours » Srinivasa Ramanujan mercredi 13 février 2013 

MemORy Archimedes mercredi 13 février 2013 

Memory Benjamin Franklin I won’t define it either ;) but there’s lots of research and it’s getting better understood ‣ It’s actually a graph ‣ we’re storing many, many bits of knowledge ‣ we’re retrieving better if they’re woven together ‣ similarities / differences to what we already know ‣ works better if it’s personal mercredi 13 février 2013 

Forgetting ‣ Reinforcement ‣ Spacing mercredi 13 février 2013 

Experiences ‣ themes and categories ‣ relate new things to known stuff ‣ add emotions ‣ how does this make you feel? ‣ add examples ‣ remember abstract stuff by their concrete examples ‣ Look at ankisrs.net ‣ also used in duolingo et al. « Rasta » Liebniz mercredi 13 février 2013 

tOOlbOX mercredi 13 février 2013 

Be stupid! http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/tag/studying/ ‣Feynman Technique ‣ ask « stupid » questions ‣ don’t get lost at the start! ‣ use simpler words ‣ add analogies / metaphors ‣ you might find errors in the common wisdom ‣ Subtle variations isn’t this ringing a bell? ‣ Lean Startup ‣ Fail fast Richard Feynman mercredi 13 février 2013 

Hirschfield’s rules ‣ http://blog.creativethink.com/2006/11/tom_hirshfields.html 1. set targets: not too small, nor too big 2. don’t look at details first 3. rephrase 4. try another direction 5. explain to other people 6. transforming a problem into another problem 7. if it’s surprising, it’s useful 8. study the inverse problem 9. analyze your own methods 10. ask « why this? » Marie Curie mercredi 13 février 2013 

QED Grace Hopper Have you noticed? these are actually tips to: ‣ time management ‣ like setting priorities ‣ hacking motivation ‣ getting results is a key ‣ better health ‣ hacking yourself is caring about yourself mercredi 13 février 2013 

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Credits Entrepreneur Infographic: Kanjis http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annavital/becoming-an- entrepreneur-infographic-book Zach Weiner: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, « 11 lives » comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722 Gotlib: La Rubrique à Brac : Isaac Newtons GMathieu: Normalien / Centralien / Alien Unknown: Archimedes & Rasta Liebniz ... Alan Turing mercredi 13 février 2013