Scientific Definition
Glucose, omega-3s, sleep, and hydration each influence decision quality.
Plain-English Definition
Glucose, omega-3s, sleep, and hydration each influence decision quality.
Feynman Explanation
Your strategy is downstream of your breakfast.
Core Principle
Glucose, omega-3s, sleep, and hydration each influence decision quality.
Mechanisms
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Glucose, omega-3s, sleep, and hydration each influence decision quality.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Your strategy is downstream of your breakfast.
Examples
- Judges, executives, surgeons all show effects.
- Operating cadence and decision quality.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Manage the substrate. Stop pretending cognition floats free of biology.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Manage the substrate. Stop pretending cognition floats free of biology.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Brain region tracking conflict, error, and effort.
Boredom triggers creative wandering.
Cognitive performance varies predictably with circadian rhythm.
Most biases are efficient heuristics misapplied.
Working memory has limits.
Pausing System 1 to engage System 2.
Familiar information feels true.
Brain network active during rest and mind-wandering — and during creative insight.
Self-control draws from a limited daily pool. (Contested in lab; observed in life.)
Thinking happens through the body, not despite it.
Aerobic exercise measurably improves executive function.
Neurological state of peak performance and engagement.