Neuroscience and the Connection to Sustained Excellence

Sustained excellence requires not only deep passion and dedication but also the mental resiliency and vibrancy to deal with negative shocks and to discover and exploit potentially upside opportunities. Performing at one's peak mental resiliency and vibrancy requires an understanding of how instinctual brain and body systems interact to create our mind, and more importantly, how to leverage this understanding to come up with tangible, low-hanging practices to (re)wire our mind and body for success. Adopting the format of a weeks-long retreat, the course offers students neuroscience-based frameworks and emerging technologies to learn and put into practice 'biohacking' methods ranging from meditation and heart-rate variability to (thought and feeling) pattern-interrupts, leveraging a core principle in neuroscience, Use it or Lose it, to its corollary, Don't Use it and Lose It.