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Upgrade Your Human OS: The 7-Day Bio-Hacker's Guide

You want to upgrade your body's hardware and your brain's software. This 7-day journey is a bio-hacker's guide to peak performance. We'll use cutting-edge science to optimize your sleep, exercise, diet, and focus for a high-performance life.

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Why We Sleep

by Matthew Walker

All bio-hacking starts with the ultimate performance enhancer: sleep. This book is your foundational text, a crucial look at how quality sleep is the bedrock for memory, immunity, and athletic performance. This is the #1, non-negotiable hack.

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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

After optimizing your rest with Why We Sleep, we optimize your activity. This book is a game-changing look at how exercise is the best hack for your brain, boosting focus, mood, and learning. It will forever change your motivation to work out.

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor

Now that you're sleeping and moving, let's hack a system you use 25,000 times a day. This book is a mind-blowing exploration of how conscious breathing techniques can instantly alter your physical and mental state, from stress levels to endurance.

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

by Anna Lembke

With your physical systems being hacked, we now turn to your brain chemistry. This book is a crucial guide to understanding and managing your dopamine levels. Hacking your motivation and avoiding addiction is key to sustainable high performance.

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Deep Work

by Cal Newport

After hacking your brain chemistry, you need to hack your focus. This book is the ultimate guide to structuring your life for intense, uninterrupted concentration. This 'deep work' ability is the bio-hack that produces world-class results.

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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The result of your Deep Work practice is the ultimate bio-hacked state: flow. This book explores the science of that effortless, peak-performance state where you feel and do your best. It's the feeling we've been building towards all week.

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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

by Scott H. Young

For our finale, we apply these hacks to a new skill. After a week of optimizing your state, this book provides a concrete system for channeling that high performance into rapidly mastering any difficult skill you want. It's the ultimate application of your new bio-hacked self.

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