By | Dr. Marcus Ranney | Champion of Wellbeing | Planetary Health | Media and Technology
In the Oscar-winning film The Martian, Matt Damon’s character Mark Watney gets stranded alone on a hostile Mars. This leaves him depressed and lonely. But after a while, he gathers himself and decides to hack his mindset for survival. He announces in his video diary, ‘I’m gonna have to science the sh** out of this.’
Unless you are one of the handful of astronomers on earth, you’d probably never have the chance to leave this planet. Yet in all likelihood, you would have – at some or the other point of your life – felt like Matt Damon right here on earth: lost, alone and desperate to get out.
What if I told you it was possible to get out of your rut, to reach for the stars of your deepest desires and that – best of all – you don’t have to struggle half as much for lift-off?
What is your goal? What is your ambition in life? What would make you feel fulfilled? What if it were possible to achieve it? No, not by signing up for an expensive course, or reading a boring, long book, or attending months of lectures. But by activating some simple ‘Biohacks’, using an easy ‘Three Key Framework’ to rewire your brain for consistent high performance. Or to put it in Martian-speak, “neuroscience the sh** out of whatever you are stuck in.”
Do you know that you have 87 billion neurons, each having 7000 synapses in your body? These trillions of neural connection make up the neural pathways for everything you encounter in life: people, objects, events, behaviours, environmental cues etc. The more you encounter them or do something repeatedly, the stronger that pathway gets, becoming your default pattern. These neural circuits create who you are.
