HYPEREFFICIENT
Little Brown Spark, 2024
*A Next Big Idea Book Club Selection
Optimize your life using science-backed advice and discover how to get your brain working at peak efficiency.
We all know how to nudge our brains to perform better. A strong cup of coffee helps us get through a dull meeting, and a brisk walk helps us think more clearly. But what if some nudges could optimise how we focus, create and process information even more effectively, to take mental performance to new heights?
Today, most office workers are expected to operate with industrial-era efficiency. Yet the work that matters most in our technology-dominated workplace – generating brilliant ideas, solving complex problems, and learning – can’t be manufactured like outputs on an assembly line. Instead, we need a new, HYPEREFFICIENT way of working: rather than imposing the rhythms of work on our brains, Dr. Mithu Storoni proposes we impose the rhythm of our brains on our work.
Storoni explains that our brains function like a car’s engine, with multiple gears that put our brains in optimal mode for different mental challenges. Drawing on the latest research, she shows us how to seamlessly shift our brains into the best gear for the tasks we need to be doing, so we can perform at our best throughout the day, every day.
“Read this book! Mithu Storoni’s unique strategy doesn’t just preserve brain health and longevity, it promises to escalate mental performance to new heights and improve the way we work.”―Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Blue Zones