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  • I remember studying until I forgot. It’s normal.One year I had 4 final exams on one day - it was a real “Jesus take the wheel” moment…

    Attention takes cognitive energy, and once that energy is depleted you go stupid.

    Best practices: -Sleep around 8hrs, mandatory, helps with memory consolidation,error correction and resetting the battlefield for next day ( see “Why we Sleep” by Mathew Walker of Stamford).

    -Exercise or vigorous activity -break a sweat -it’ll refresh the neurochemical soup in your brain.

    Sugar snacks and caffeine before and during studying - brain uses a shit tone of energy and it loves glucose, and the caffeine does some Dopamine stuff that helps. Spread it out through the session, don’t smash it upfront and crash an hour later.

    -Creatine monohydrate supplementation 20grams/day will supercharge your cognition when burnt out/sleep deprived- plenty of research on it- it’s a precursor to ATP and brain loves it some ATP.- check out the studies/protocols on it.

    Other things Nicotine gum- boosts memory.

    Modafinil /Adderall and Vyvanse etc… get your dopamine roaring- spiking focus, cognition and memory- but they are like flipping a switch. But be mindful of state dependent learning, dependence ,legality, clean supply etc.

















  • Good point, China alone can get India driving in EV’s . One nagging thought Is that if US can’t have dominance by alliance, market control or coercion it will try to create dependence through war. If the world is at war, it knocks all directly involved parties way down the economic ladder, needing financial and industrial support from the US. Removes competition, creates highly indebted dependants , not unlike WW2. Speaking to some old timers , it’s clear that whenever the US economy falters they export war. Why would this be any different. Perhaps what we’re seeing with abandoning Europe to deal with Russia is a setup for EU to get economically degraded again. But if US is really trying to corner China as they say, leaving Europe vulnerable is counter productive as China will benefit.