How to Be Productive (through Neuroscience)

Pablo Castañeda
5 min readJun 10, 2018
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I wanted to consider our daily productivity through a neuropsychological and neurobiological approach by considering factors such as Butterfly effect and others that are already known that will be explained.

Suppose that you pile up snow on top of a mountain surface. You start storing kinetic energy that has a potential to turn itself into one of the most powerful forces in nature, basically, an avalanche. What happens is, one little snow particle causes other little snow particles to move which causes other snow particles to move, creating this cascade effect which creates this huge and powerful force that can destroy trees all the way down the mountainside.

Treat Yourself like an avalanche

To understand how we can apply this to ourselves we need to understand that the human body has a lot of different cycles that are interacting with each other at different time scales. There are cycles that occur in milliseconds like gamma wave oscillations within our brain.

Other cycles happen within minutes or hours, such as levels of melatonin throughout the day, or over the course of years like when you are going through puberty. Each one of these cycles is interacting with each other at different time periods.

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Pablo Castañeda

Neuroscience & psychology • Human and brain passionate • I share ideas to live and understand ourselves better: smartsapiens.net