Outsmart Yourself: Brain-Based Strategies to a Better You

An explosion of understanding about the brain; surprising and counterintuitive conclusions about people's behaviors and decision-making processes; examining the disconnect between one's actions and their consciousness of those actions.

Procrastination affects everyone from time to time; evidence-based strategies for reducing procrastination by attacking it at its source; three tips on how to be more efficient and effective; the neurochemistry of why people procrastinate.

The unconscious plays a strong role in developing bad habits; several tips to help one examine and modify their behaviors, ranging from the very simple to the complex; which habits one would most like to change.

What neuroscience can tell one about healthy eating; whether scientific insights can help curb unhealthy snacking; how simple changes such as cleaning the kitchen and changing the packaging of food may have a measurable effect on bad eating habits.

Eating healthy to be healthy; considering the hormones that drive hunger cues; how the body responds to different foods; why high-fructose corn syrup is bad for the body; why exercise might not help one lose much weight.

The modern world seems to demand multitasking; recent research shows that people are more efficient and creative if they can focus on one task at a time, a strategy known as monotasking; how the brain works when confronted with multiple tasks.