Dual-n-back training. I can rely on this to drastically reduce anxiety, flightiness, improve concentration. It also seems to whet my appetite for intellectual work and increase purposefulness across the board. +8
I don’t think my FAQ is appropriate for the top-level, as DNB is to me still in the twilight zone of effectiveness—unlike, say, melatonin.
Part of the problem is that the academic research (specifically Jaeggi 2008 and Jaeggi 2010) is flawed (see the Moody section of the FAQ), and the time consumption is massive: I’m willing to stump for melatonin because the time consumption is 1 or 2 seconds a day and the effects are clear; I’m not willing to stump for something with unclear (if possibly much more valuable) effects and consuming on the order of 20 minutes a day.
“I think I’ve put my finger on a particular benefit of dnb training: it seems to help my brain’s ‘internal clock’ - I am better able to order my thoughts in time.”
But no reason I couldn’t quote you twice as the quotes differ?
Can I use this for my/the DNB FAQ?
Yeah, is this published yet? Whatever you are working on, or something similar, could be a top-level post here.
I don’t think my FAQ is appropriate for the top-level, as DNB is to me still in the twilight zone of effectiveness—unlike, say, melatonin.
Part of the problem is that the academic research (specifically Jaeggi 2008 and Jaeggi 2010) is flawed (see the Moody section of the FAQ), and the time consumption is massive: I’m willing to stump for melatonin because the time consumption is 1 or 2 seconds a day and the effects are clear; I’m not willing to stump for something with unclear (if possibly much more valuable) effects and consuming on the order of 20 minutes a day.
Where is this FAQ? Is it something here that I have missed?
It’s a FAQ I’ve been compiling/writing for the Dual N-Back mailing list; you can find the latest link here: http://gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
(That’s just the static HTML version, though, which I sometimes update; the real latest Markdown is in my Darcs repo: https://patch-tag.com/r/gwern/Gwern/home .)
You may do, but you might end up including me twice, as I have posted similar thoughts elsewhere, under a different name (cev).
Oh; I do have you already then, under
But no reason I couldn’t quote you twice as the quotes differ?
Yeah, sure—I couldn’t remember what I may have said earlier.