Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb Summary
Overview of Mind Hacks
Unlock your brain's hidden operating system with "Mind Hacks" - 100+ neuroscience experiments revealing how vision, attention, and cognition actually work. Steven Johnson calls it revolutionary, exposing the shortcuts your mind takes daily. Ready to hack your perception of reality?
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Unlocking the Hidden Circuits of Your Mind
Your brain isn't what you think it is. Forget the computer metaphor - it's a prediction machine constantly making educated guesses about reality. When you step onto a stationary escalator and feel that strange lurching sensation, that's your brain predicting motion based on past experience. This predictive nature explains why you can't tickle yourself (your brain dampens the sensory response it can predict) but others can tickle you effortlessly. Our minds evolved for efficiency, not accuracy, which is why we see faces in clouds and miss gorillas walking through basketball games. These aren't just quirks - they're windows into how your brain actually works, revealing the shortcuts and assumptions that construct your reality moment by moment. Your visual system is nothing like a camera. Instead, it's more like a sophisticated construction site where different brain regions process specific aspects - color here, motion there, depth somewhere else - before combining them into a seamless whole. This explains why half the participants in a famous experiment failed to notice when the person they were giving directions to was swapped out during a brief interruption. Your brain doesn't store complete representations of scenes but focuses on elements deemed important, filling in the rest as needed. This is why you can stare at a waterfall for a minute, then look at stationary rocks and see them flowing upward - motion-detecting neurons become fatigued, creating a powerful illusion that reveals how your perception is actively constructed rather than passively recorded.
The Attentional Gateway: How Your Brain Filters Reality
The Sensory Symphony: How Your Senses Collaborate
Memory's Creative License: How Your Past Is Constantly Rewritten
The Social Mirror: How Others Shape Your Mind
Hacking Your Own Operating System
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Cree par des anciens de Columbia University a San Francisco
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
"Instead of endless scrolling, I just hit play on BeFreed. It saves me so much time."
"I never knew where to start with nonfiction—BeFreed’s book lists turned into podcasts gave me a clear path."
"Perfect balance between learning and entertainment. Finished ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ on my commute this week."
"Crazy how much I learned while walking the dog. BeFreed = small habits → big gains."
"Reading used to feel like a chore. Now it’s just part of my lifestyle."
"Feels effortless compared to reading. I’ve finished 6 books this month already."
"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
"It is great for me to learn something from the book without reading it."
"The themed book list podcasts help me connect ideas across authors—like a guided audio journey."
"Makes me feel smarter every time before going to work"
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