Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome to the Human Optimum Performance Engineering project!

  • 2

    01_Vitality Basics

    • Power Profiles

    • Assignment: Energy Levels

    • Assignment: Discover your Body type and Chronotype

    • Mandatory Reading: Energize Yourself

    • Assignment: Update your habits

    • Video: The Future of Peak Performance

    • Extra Credit: Book Club

  • 3

    02_Technology and Biohacking

    • How to use technology to track your progress and accelerate

    • Mandatory Reading: Technology and flow

    • Weekly videos

    • Assignment: Book Club participation

  • 4

    03_Purpose setting

    • TIME vs ENERGY MANAGEMENT

    • Weekly videos

    • Strategies for life

    • Assignment: Your life in perspective

    • Extra Credit: Curiosity to purpose

    • Extra credit: Book Club

  • 5

    04_Goal setting

    • A delicate balance in life

    • Assignment: Completing your HOPE Calendar

    • Mandatory Reading: Managing our social circle

    • Assignment: Social Circle exercise

    • Mandatory Reading: Prioritizing recovery

    • Assignment: DIY wellness day planning

    • Weekly videos

    • Extra Credit: Outdoor vacation planning

    • Extra credit: Book Club

  • 6

    05_Learning

    • Learning and productvity

    • Mandatory Reading: Personal productivity systems

    • Weekly videos

    • Mandatory Reading: Learning

    • Podcast Listening Strategy for Learning

    • ACT-R Theory For Learning Complex Skills

    • Final Project: Tim Ferriss Experiment planning

    • Extra credit: Book Club

  • 7

    06_Transient hipofrontality

    • The mechanics of the flow state

    • Mandatory Reading: Transient Hypofrontality

    • Weekly videos

    • What to expect at class

  • 8

    07_Flow

    • Assignment: Complete the Flow Profile Quiz

    • Engineering optimum performance

    • Weekly videos

    • Extra Credit: Book Club

  • 9

    08_Flow and Organisational Performance

    • FLOW AND THE CHANGING CONTEXT

    • The Learning Organisation

    • Extra Credit: Book Club