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title: How to biohack your intelligence - Limitless Mindset
description: "In this podcast series, I read and comment on Biohacker-extraordinaire Serge Faguet's exhaustive article, How to biohack your intelligence — with everything fro"
author: Jonathan Roseland
url: https://www.limitlessmindset.com/podcast/1538-biohack-your-intelligence
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# How to biohack your intelligence

Ⓒ By **Jonathan Roseland**

Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur, and Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest - spanning three continents - to find real-life "NZT-48."

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In this podcast series, I read and comment on Biohacker-extraordinaire [Serge Faguet's](https://twitter.com/SergeW1) exhaustive article, [*How to biohack your intelligence — with everything from sex to modafinil to MDMA*](https://hackernoon.com/biohack-your-intelligence-now-or-become-obsolete-97cdd15e395f)

[Subscribe to the Limitless Podcast](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/LM-Podcast) To Listen on the Go

**Discussing...**
Classifications of intelligence
Sleep hacking
Pharmaceuticals
SSRIs
Meditation
Sexual deviancy
Narcotics
Transhumanism

## **Mentioned in Part 1**

Essential email lifehack: [Boomerang for Gmail](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/apps-software/257-boomerang)

Serge's App: [Mirror emoji keyboard - your personal emoji!](https://www.mirror-ai.com/)

[Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade](https://amzn.to/3kSrY0P) by Robert B. Cialdini

Body Language Analysis: [*Body Language Ghost's* analysis of Trump](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7n8r27jRnjpYpfyEfBOLFw/search?query=Trump)

[Biohacking Sleep with Lighting, Beverages, and Mindset](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/1556-biohacking-sleep), chapter 10 from my book "How to Be Cross Eyed"

Are you a fast or slow caffeine metabolizer? Get personal genotyping from [Sequencing.com](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/services/585-sequencing)

[Book Review of “Stealing Fire”](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/books/538-stealing-fire) by Steven Kotler - an ecstatic manifesto

##  **Part 2**

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[Outsource Your Online Dating](https://outsourceyourdating.com/) Service

**Articles about monogamy**: *[I was promised a sex slave](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/1620-sex-slave) *and [Against Cucks](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/634-against-cucks) 

**Eating one meal a day every day is not a great idea**, see [my review of *Fast This Way*](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/books/204-fast-this-way) 

[Etymotic earbuds](https://amzn.to/3xg0wzn) for focus

**Ketone Supplements**

["Trust me, I'm Lying" Book Review: The Internet killed the News. Duh. What to Do about It...](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/books/1341-trust-me-im-lying) 

[Coach.me](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Coach-Me) - for habit tracking

## ** Part 3**

[Subscribe to the Limitless Podcast](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/LM-Podcast) To Listen on the Go

[Modafinil](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Modafinil): The Military-Grade Smart Drug and why it made me hallucinate...

**Read**: [Modafinil is Problematic.](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/495-modafinil-is-problematic)

About Adderall vs Nootropics: [Adult ADHD Cured! The Four Pillars of Maintaining Focus, Motivation and Memory](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/limitless-lifestyle/23-adult-adhd-cured)

[Biohackers should be skeptical of Psychedelics](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/645-biohackers-skeptical-psychedelics) 

My trenchant critique of transhumanism, [Transhumanism is a Trap](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/589-transhumanism-trap) 

## **The Best Intelligence Hack**

Serge's article does not mention the most clinically efficacious way to boost intelligence broadly: [Dual N-back](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Dual-N-Back)[ brain training](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/Dual-N-Back). 

A [2017 meta-analysis](https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-016-1217-0) analyzed 33 published dual n-back experiments from independent labs worldwide. It definitively showed that dual n-back training significantly increases the broad abilities underlying IQ, including fluid intelligence (Gf), working memory, both verbal and spatial (WM), and attention control (cognitive control).

Having tried over 200 different Nootropics and smart drugs (along with almost every weird and wacky personal growth thing you've heard of), take it from me: Dual N-Back training is the low-hanging-intelligence-hacking fruit.

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