Permission to Chocolate, Dopamine or Bust, & Sing a Simple Song

Permission to Chocolate, Dopamine or Bust, & Sing a Simple Song

Dawn's Big Three This Week:

1) 🥑 Food For Thought:

No need to shame your chocolate cravings this holiday. Cocoa’s flavanols are proven to boost memory and speed up reaction time. Just make sure to dig into the dark stuff and leave the rest for Santa.

2) ​☔ Make It Brain: 

Double down on dopamine. It does more than excite the brain. Research indicates there is a link between dopamine levels and high performance.
We give you tips to hack your brain chemistry.

3) 🥇 Motivation Station:

Did you know singing promotes well-being? It’s true. But there’s something better for all you songbirds: belting out melodies with other people. Research proves singing in a crowd is better than of solo karaoke. 

Knowledge is potential, share it.

Like An Extra Virgin, Running On The Brain, & Just Dance

Like An Extra Virgin, Running On The Brain, & Just Dance

🍏Don’t buy oil from the Italian Mafia. Invest in the real deal and savour the brain-boosting benefits of premium extra virgin olive oil.

🔥Just Do It. Book that Marathon, commit to that 10k, or just go for a jog round the block because we all have to start somewhere. Your knees won't thank you, but your mind will.

⚡️Make a date with a dance floor. Call your friends. You’ll need to rehearse. Here’s that Beyonce tutorial you didn’t ask for.

Coffee Wins, Use-What-You-Have Cognitive Design, & Seriously Heavy Petting

Coffee Wins, Use-What-You-Have Cognitive Design, & Seriously Heavy Petting

🍏Be THAT guy/girl and ask for "Dark Roasted Coffee Beans". Bonus point: wear a beanie and order whilst casually reading a Penguin Classic at the same time for added 'hipster effect'.

🔥Mindmap everything you learn this week. To boost your retention and memory, intentionally create meaningful connections between incoming ideas and what you already know. Your brain does the connection bit already—it’s just less strategic. Make it work harder.

⚡️Follow my cats on Instagram? Oh wait, no that wasn't the point. Stop buying Pythons. Buy rabbits. Or something cute - stop scaring off your sexual partners. Unless that's what you want, in which case this care guide for looking after pet tarantulas might come in handy.