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Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

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Post by jariel »

xvector wrote: post #6

Only a matter of time before we are expected to take drugs to be better at our jobs.

Unfortunately, a lot of people already are. Long-haul truck drivers have an underbelly of 5-hour-energy drink and barbiturate use.

Re: Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

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Post by vuln »

Waterluvian wrote: post #10
curious_fella1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share some of these strategies?

This might be the third or fourth time I've been asked so I'm going to write about it on my website tomorrow and share it here once I'm done. Apologies.

Please do.

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Post by clolege »

metiscus wrote: post #8
curious_fella1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you share some of these strategies?

For me, my add has been made much better with aggressive weight training. I started doing "Starting Strength" and transitioned into the Texas method but three pretty heavy workouts a week really helps. Normally I feel like I see the world through the narrow end of a funnel. When I get done with a big workout, somehow for the next day or so my brain is chilled out and I can concentrate again. After two days or so I st…

Interesting, I've recently started committing to a hard 10-minute workout each day of the week, and it's been helping me focus through my ADD a lot better too. I feel so much more alive.

I've also picked up meditating 10 minutes a day and that's been helping as well, but I don't think as much.

Re: Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

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Post by for_i_in_range »

mancerayder wrote: post #7
op03 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domination and obedience based hierarchical system + positive cognitive effects = ?

Brave New World

Exactly. I find it impressive Aldous Huxley wrote it when WW2 was beginning. Before LSD, Prozac, and the Mental Health Crisis.

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Post by pengaru »

Waterluvian wrote: post #3

When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…

> The idea of performance enhancing drugs making their way into the workplace arena scares me a lot.

You say that as if it hasn't already happened, Adderall has been ubiquitous for years.

At my last office job we had an intern from out of state miss work abruptly because she couldn't get her Adderall prescription filled, and, I shit you not, skipped work to fly to Nevada to fill her out of state 'script because CA pharmacies wouldn't. She claimed she couldn't get any work done without it, from what I saw she couldn't get any work done either way, but the Adderall sure helped her focus on her phone for hours on end.

Re: Microdosing: Improving performance enhancement in intelligence analysis (2019) [pdf]

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Post by for_i_in_range »

Waterluvian wrote: post #3

When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…

When you got off Ritalin, did you find yourself more emotional and “feeling” more pain? I think the fear of this keeps most people on Ritalin/Adderall/Concerta/Vyvanse, etc.
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