BRAIN HACKS: Life-Changing Strategies to Improve Executive Functioning Paperback – November 20, 2018

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.

I found this a very helpful and comprehensive guide to overcoming common mistakes in tackling organizing my life. Easy to read and follow.

I thought this would have activities and such but it is just a normal book. Still had good info though

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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.

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 withTony 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.

Useful and to the point which is more than I can about many other self help books. Several different techniques to help and work on.

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.