Brain Hacks: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning

4.6 | 532 ratings

Price: 13.08

Last update: 07-02-2024

Top reviews from the United States

Daina Escamilla

Simplified content, useful resources, and enhancing your cognitive abilities.

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2023

This book proved to be incredibly beneficial for me in achieving my goals by introducing new coping strategies and techniques that I found very helpful. It's a rare gem to come across a book that not only offers valuable tips and exercises but also provides self-assessments to help pinpoint the areas where you face the greatest challenges. I thoroughly enjoy reading this book during study breaks, in the middle of the day, while journaling, and when taking breaks from exploring my creativity. It reminds us how important executive skills are in our daily lives.

Timothy A. Naisbett

fantastic book for anyone who feels they are just going through life

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

This books shows you the skills of executive functioning that other people in this life have learned growing up, but you have not yet learned. This is a book that you keep with you day after day and read it multiple times to understand the information.

Kellsie rasler

Informative easy read

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019

Helpful to the point easy read

paula b.

Great read and helpful ideas.

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023

Insightful and helpful. Learned some great tricks to help me get My home, work, car and life better organized. Not as stressed out and more productive.

5/5!

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2023

5/5! Would recommend it to a friend. Would read it again. Come to think of it would definitely reccomend it to a friend.

darkguardian2

Written Self Therapy Session called Brain Hacking

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2018

It was't that good on the book.
I couldn't figure out why I found the book average and everyone else loved it.
The book comes from the angle of a practicing psychologist with lots of exercise that she renames Brain Hacks (to sound more accepting and cool I guess)
I literally read the book two times and skimmed it a third time.
It finally hit me that over the last 50 years I've read and viewed the contents from those that came before. From "Unlimited Power" exercises in NLP and visualizing with
Tony Robbins to goal planning and handling emotions related to procrastination in the book "Working Smart" by Michael LeBoeuf,
Mastering the Information Age” by Michael McCarthy not to mention the countless YouTube videos by Dr Jordan B. Peterson and Dr Eric Thomas.

So, what does Lara Honos-Webb PhD bring to the table that the others don't?
Apparently, a marketing gimmick for a written self-therapy session with ideas that have been around for decades.
Take out Brain Hacking out of the content and you have old school therapy.
She's even promote readers to start "Brain Hack" clubs because to do many of the exercises require two people and your friends and family are only going to tolerate so much one on one therapy sessions.
The world doesn't revolve around the individual and others do have their lives to live.
As a first book on the subject of human performance for millennials, it's an okay book but there are better books out there to start with.
Dr Jordan B Peterson said that there's always something to learn even from those you don't want to hear.
I did learn about bullet journals (millennial rediscovering the Day Planners of the 1980s) and a small section on Entropy that was interesting. So it wasn't a total loss.
By the way, a real Brain or Body Hack is something like getting a brain freeze and pressing your thumb to the roof of your mouth to reduce the pain. That's a hack and it works.

Michel Donato

Helpful tools

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2023

This is a book that is really meant to be used consistently and for you to keep going back to. It's got a few different tools that at least gives you a variety to do trial and error and see if it works for you. They also have prompts/questions to help you process through a lot. I would recommend to others.

JaR

Executive function hacks

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2022

Loved the assessment within this book. Helped to I'd the area that should first worknon and those that you have a relative strength. Easy to use and read.

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