Book Reviews & Beyond
Glucose Revolution
Book Review: Glucose diet hacking is a game-changer!
My wife told me over dinner not long ago "You know you shouldn't eat your salad last, it's a lot healthier to eat the salad first and then the protein or carbs." That didn't make sense to me, it all ends up in the same place, right? I wondered if this was just a cultural thing because she's Bulgarian, and here in Bulgaria the way we always do epic holiday mealtime is a light salad first (with a couple of shot glasses of Rakia - Balkan fire water) and then slow-cooked meat with bread.
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
This book is praised highly in Tools of Titans so I decided to pick it up on Kindle. I found it both charming and enlightening about science.
Richard Feynman was a science and mathematics prodigy and one of the great physicists of the 20th century. He worked on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and as a professor at Caltech and Cornell. He was a true polymath who had a bit of an anti-establishmentarian streak and was a contrarian thinker.
The Plant Paradox
Book Review: You're Being Royally F*cked by Lectins!
And you're probably saying, what the heck is a lectin?
They are microscopic instruments of violence yielded in the 400-million-year-old cold war between the animal kingdom (us included), bugs, and plants.
Men's Work
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
Book Review: Integrate the shadow of your masculinity before it drags you to hell
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of masculinity podcasts. One of them that doesn't suck is ManTalks with Connor Beaton. So I dove into his personal growth book for men, which also doesn't suck! It really lives up to the second word of its subtitle, A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom. The book is about a topic I've long shied away from (for some reason)...
East of Eden
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
The classic American novel about the shades of grey of human nature grasping at free will while striving toward the future.
The book opens with a moving description of the Salinas Valley, California from the era when it was a frontier of North America being settled by pioneering folk.
Spoiler alert: I'm going to synopsize the whole story arc here so you may want to go finish the book first.
Atlas Shrugged
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
Book Review: The Ethical Sociopath's Guide to Living in the Idiocracy of Modernity
For those unacquainted, this novel is a vehicle to explain the philosophy and practical application of objectivism...
At Our Wits’ End
Book Review: Why You Can’t Fly on The Concorde...
Have you ever wondered why you can't fly from New York to London on the supersonic Concorde? Why didn't we go back to the moon or colonize Mars?
This book makes the case that it's because we've hit peak intelligence as a civilization, that we're losing our wits and lack the smarts to accomplish anything really noteworthy.
The authors write...
Why? Why is it that we used to be able to fly from the USA to London in less than 4 hours but now we can’t? Why is it that we used to be able to put people on the Moon but now, it seems, we can’t? The answer is surprisingly simple. We are no longer intelligent enough to be able to do these things. We have become too stupid to keep Concorde in flight; let alone go back to the Moon.
The Memory Book
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
Book Review: A major personal influence and a great place to start learning memory systems
I first read this book about 20 years ago, when I found it on my parent's bookshelves in high school. I was fascinated by the principles in it and it was some of the inspiration for LimitlessMindset.com! It's still sitting next to my desk at this moment. I owe a lot of my success, relationships, life experiences, and a sharp mind to utilizing the memory systems that I first learned from this book.
This book does an excellent job of getting you started using memory systems in your business and personal life. Memory systems are an often overlooked area of personal development that will make you more effective at everything you do. Without a doubt, anyone who wants to have a "Limitless" memory in real life should read some books on Mnemonics. Lots of smart, educated people have never even heard of using memory systems to improve their performance. I suspect this is because memory systems are not very commercially viable. Memory systems are a completely natural method of maximizing your brain's performance, they don't require you to purchase drugs or supplements, or expensive coaching programs. Once you learn them and get in the habit of using them, they will benefit you for the rest of your life.
Memory systems take a little persistence to get started with
At first, you will feel a little silly and wonder if you are just completely wasting time making up absurd visualizations. After about a week of consciously forcing yourself to use memory systems, you will find that they become easy and fun to use. After a few months of daily practice, you will begin to approach an unconscious competence level of skill using memory systems. Memory systems improve your social life since they upgrade your sense of humor and ability to banter with people and remember details about people.
The book was originally published in 1974, so some of the applications of memory systems in it are a little dated, for example, in today's culture of smartphones and Google how often does anyone need to memorize phone numbers? But the principles are completely timeless. The most valuable use of memory systems for me has been being able to mentally file away small details about people and recall them instantly at the most opportune moments, this has made a major positive impact on my social life and career.
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
Book Review: Atlantis existed.
Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods presents a very methodical argument for a lost civilization.
I’ll summarize what I think is Hancock’s strongest argument for Atlantis:
Around the globe; from the pyramids of Egypt and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey to the ruins in the high mountains of Peru we find extraordinary megalithic architecture that could only be created by an advanced civilization. Remarkably, what we DON’T find in the archaeological record of these places is evolution of the craft of megalithic building.
This is a major dog that does not bark. We don’t find smaller, shoddier, crappier pyramids that the Egyptian engineers cut their teeth building before they figured out how to create the spectacular pyramids that have stood for thousands of years.
Pitch Anything
| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |
Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."
Book Review: A How-To Manual for Limitless Deal Makers
This is a book about the neuroscience behind sales, marketing, and deal-making.
The author is a very Limitless guy. Oren works doing sophisticated 7, 8, and 9 figure capital finance deals. He raises millions of dollars from venture capitalists, angel investors, and financial institutions to fund startups, real estate deals, and even airports. The author has been doing the kind of deal-making you see the guy doing in the movie Limitless for the last 15 years.
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