


Tapping in: A step-by-step guide to activating your healing resources through bilateral stimulation. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 4(2), 6075. However, if any budding productivity scientists in the greater Philadelphia area would like an unpaid internship, hit me up (not literally). The integrative use of EMDR and clinical hypnosis in the treatment of adults abused as children. I don’t have an extra $5,000 a month to replicate this experiment. Berens’ non-slapping experiment also appears to have been successful: he claims it increased his productive hours by around “2.8x” and gave him an “extra 57 hours of productive time a month”. Still, he asserts his slappers boosted his productivity by 98%. To be honest, it seems as if this experiment wasn’t just about productivity: Sethi has admitted that he has “a weird slapping thing”. In 2012, a guy called Maneesh Sethi hired someone to slap him in the face when he was procrastinating on Facebook. Uh huh.īerens’ experiment, as he notes in his Craigslist ad for productivity assistants, was not an entirely original idea. After almost 12 hours of wearing the same clothes, dancing, sweating, no shower or access to perfume, and there was this moment he put his face and nose in the crook of my neck, and just breathed into me, 'I love your smell.' Id be hard-pressed at the moment to think of anything more intimate or primatively erotic. “I didn’t mean to only hire women it just turned out that way,” Berens explains on his blogpost about the experiment. He is constantly experimenting with productivity “hacks” and recently hired people to sit behind him for six to eight hours a day, four to five days a week, at $20 (£16) an hour, to ensure he was being productive. He is also, as you would expect from an engineer at Meta, committed to optimising every second of his time. This has saved me from preggo insomnia However the app always crashes overnight and means my alarm clock just keeps on vibrating, which is weird.
WEIRD HYPNOSIS SOFTWARE
And then, last week, while reading one of the many newsletters I subscribe to (reading newsletters is a great way to put off writing), I discovered the existence of Simon Berens, a man even more committed to procrastinating in the name of avoiding procrastinating than I am.īerens is a software engineer at Meta. Until recently, I thought I’d tried all the productivity tricks ever invented. I’ve tried self-hypnosis, I’ve tried gimmicky brain pills, I’ve tried the Pomodoro Technique and every other possible time-management technique. I’ve wasted a lot of my life trying to find ways to stop procrastinating. I have a handful of weird talents but – not to boast or anything – what I really excel at is procrastination. The term hypnosis comes from the ancient Greek word hypnos, which means.
