Brain Hacks - Unleash Your Genius September 2025

Welcome to this final Brain Hacks session, where we untangle the real roots of stress — not as an enemy, but as a signal.

In this module, we explored stress as feedback: a response to our perception of a one-sided world. We broke down the two forms — eustress, which aligns with challenge in the pursuit of purpose, and distress, which arises when we perceive threat without support, or fantasy without grounding.

We unpacked how stress emerges when we:

• Expect gain without loss or pleasure without pain — splitting perception and destabilizing the nervous system

• Chase fantasies or avoid nightmares, projecting outcomes with only one side seen

• Inject others' values and abandon our own highest priorities

Welcome to this week's session on Depression.

In this module, we looked deeply at depression not as a flaw or failure, but as feedback, a signal that our perceptions have become imbalanced and our expectations misaligned with reality.

We explored how depression emerges when we:

• Compare our present reality to a fantasy about how life “should” be

• Hold onto regrets, ideals, or one-sided expectations that reality doesn’t match

• Abandon our highest values in favour of injected expectations or people-pleasing

Welcome to this week’s session on Overwhelm.

In this module, we explored how overwhelm is not a flaw, but feedback—a signal that something in our system (strategy, expectations, emotional clarity) is out of alignment.

We looked at how overwhelm shows up when:

• Everything feels equally urgent (loss of hierarchy)

• Our expectations are unrealistic or perfectionistic

• We’re filling our days with tasks disconnected from our true values

In this module, we reframed procrastination from being a flaw to being feedback — a signal from your wiser mind that something is out of alignment with your true values.

We explored how procrastination isn’t laziness or lack of discipline, but a form of intelligence — your psyche’s way of conserving energy when the task doesn’t serve your authentic mission. You’ll see how the brain’s amygdala activates avoidance when tasks are low in value or unclear in strategy, while the prefrontal cortex naturally takes the lead when actions are meaningful, purposeful, and aligned.

Together we uncovered:

• How procrastination reveals injected values and externally imposed “shoulds.”

• The distinction between value misalignment and lack of clarity — and how both create resistance.

• How to link dreaded or delayed tasks to your highest values, turning chores into inspired action.