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Your brain's a savvy guesser, crafting reality from expectations more than raw data—David Robson unpacks lab proofs like fake 1959 nursing homes making elders walk younger, or reframing stress as fuel boosting test scores 10%. Structured by life arenas (health, smarts, willpower), it delivers science-backed hacks like rituals tricking your nocebo fears into placebos, uniquely blending neuro-prediction with daily mindset flips no pop-psych skips. Emerge wielding belief as medicine, where conscious reframes dissolve limits in flesh and flow.​

What you can get from reading it

• Hack your brain's prediction loops by reframing pain as progress or anxiety as energy, proven to slash fatigue and spike creativity where others just cope.
• Deploy simple rituals—like pre-game visualizations or "limitless willpower" scripts—to unlock hidden stamina, outpacing vague affirmation books with lab metrics.
• Bust aging via expectation: walk taller, think sharper by ditching "old at 60" scripts, drawing from wild experiments like youth hotel makeovers.
• Flip nocebo poisons (fear worsening symptoms) into healing placebos through belief tweaks, feeling shifts in real-world stress and sleep trials.
• Grasp neuroplastic tools for focus and smarts, like outsider perspective on willpower, turning self-doubt into embodied mastery absent in theory-heavy tomes.​

About the author

David Robson, award-winning science writer with a Cambridge math degree, honed his craft as features editor at New Scientist and senior journalist at BBC Future before freelancing for The Atlantic, Guardian, and beyond. Through deep dives into psych experiments on mindset's hidden powers—from COVID misinfo to expectation's body hacks—he shared accessible science demystifying how beliefs reshape health, smarts, and stress for everyday readers worldwide. His curious, evidence-driven voice bridges lab wonders to life upgrades, making brain science feel like your secret edge.