Technology has changed and humans seem to have quite a bit of lost control. Unless human brain optimizes to transform the outcome, much of the focus is likely to be lost. Brain doctor Dr. Mithu Storoni has outlined the emerging enigma, and wonders if more than conventional nudge alone can process the information better. The task is to escalate human performance to a new height and improve the way we work. That is what hyper-efficiency is all about, achieving a level of efficiency that has not been achieved.
Creatively written and smarty packed four chapters, Hyper-Efficient packs many ideas and approaches to think and work about. Change the speed is unlikely to bring about the desired result, change the pattern will. From the linear approach to a non-linear rhythmic way is under attention. Marching like solider in a straight line to spinning like a dancer in a rhythm, will create the innovative mental landscape for leaning new ways of problem solving. Only by adopting new approach the tsunami of technological change will be outsmarted.
It is a smart new way of thinking about life. and life processes. The idea finally is to think about identifying the brain’s unseen gears that can make life more elegant. Our brains must navigate like never before, it should navigate the virtual world with imagination at an unprecedented speed. University of Cambridge-trained physician and neuroscientist Dr. Storoni flips through the human brain to suggest game-changing scenario. If we persist with old kind of assembly-line production system, the ecosystem is never ready to face new challenges. There is no room for flair and brilliance, there is hardly any out-of-the box thinking.
It is true of the Angkor, which became the largest preindustrial city in the world. It had tamed uncertainty by collecting water. The same innovation that had transformed Angkor, the medieval capital of the ancient Khmer empire, led to its dazzling downfall. The city had eliminated uncertainty altogether, and in the process forgot to cope with it should it reoccur. A bit of chaos in the system can make the system more resilient to unexpected shocks. The system had adopted linearity at the cost of ignoring rhythm, out-of-box thinking was compromised.
Hyper-Efficient is book that helps the reader shut out distractions to concentrate on high-level achievement. If one is less distracted, one can sleep better during night and perform better during the day. Who doesn’t know it! The book explores and explains human brain to do things differently, and ready for doing what is essentially out of the course. It unlocks the brain, realizes full potential to its optimum mental performance. It is a book of discovery, that helps discover one’s mind.
by Mithu Storoni
Hachette, New Delhi
Extent: 266 pages, Price: Rs. 599.
First published in www.raagdelhi.com on Oct, 4, 2024
