Brain Hack Adventure

Let me introduce myself - I am an engineer from the UK, 40 years old, with a young family. I have a wide variety of interests from physics and engineering problems related to my work, through health and lifestyle topics like fermenting and brewing to more philosophical subjects such as social and environmental issues.

Like many people of my age, I am re-evaluating my life and my priorities. Since my father died last year, i have been questioning whether i am following the right career path, whether i am a nice person, a good father, a good partner. Am i likely to have good health as i get older? Essentially I am asking the question:

What are my goals and how do I achieve them?

I aim to blog about this subject as a means of getting things straight in my head and doing a kind of clarity hack to try to increase my thinking power and see what factors help with addressing this problem.

the first question is a difficult one - i have found that as i start to write them down, they change the more that i write. and after writing lots i have difficulty prioritising them. I may dream of uniting the people of the world but how could i achieve that? I may dream of having a beautiful garden, that is a lot easier to achieve but really how much reward will that bring me?

So the two questions are essentially linked as you can only do so much in this life.

what kind of options are there for increasing brain power? Some ideas so far in no particular order:

1. Improvements at work - ease stresses and fell more useful
2. Caffeine - reducing caffeine intake
3. Diet - improving diet
4. Supplements - nutritional and herbal.
5. Meditation - we all know this is a good one
6. Exercise - another obvious plus but how can it be made effective?
7. Yoga - another good all rounder but how much is enough?
8. Microdosing LSD - I know nothing about this
9. CBD oil (reduce inflammation)
10. Talking therapy - either a paid therapist or just friends and family
11. Physical - improving physical appearance to improve confidence
12. Creativity/art - making things to improve peace of mind and sense of achievement
13. Religion, spirituality - do the religions have anything to say on this subject?
14. Philosophy - research the subject
15. Virtue - can a virtuous life help?

I aim to explore these one by one and any others that crop up. Lets see if i can be methodical enough to know what works and what doesnt.

Until next time!
Bin