It does feel a bit like that’s the predominant sentiment right now, but I want to go ahead and present an alternate testimonial as someone who didn’t spam this to high heaven.
I’ve used Manhattan Method 3x a day, consistently, since last November (2022). In Early June, I increased it to regularly to 6x a day which is still a staggeringly low volume compared to many of the Brainiacs here.
I only very rarely spam – I have too many brain fields to do every day for me to spam them! – but I’ve had a few ‘marathon’ days and nights where I’ve hit it for a few hours in one go (probably as many as 4-5 hours in one session). Booster wise, I picked up Brain Key in April and only used the old ‘Brain Pump’ method of Superhuman Genius + Acetycholine for those ‘marathon’ days – so for a substantial portion of that time, I was ‘unboosted’, as it were.
Within a few weeks, I was noticing new thoughts that came from unexpected directions. Within a month, I was putting together disparate ideas that never would’ve seemed like they could work. Ideas were becoming things I could ‘walk around’ and examine from different angles with context I didn’t know I had. My memory was improving – especially around faces, voices and names (the latter of which I used to be famously bad at). Three or four months in, I was remembering things I’d off-handedly heard an adult mention when I was in middle school or elementary school and ‘suddenly’ connecting it to something that was happening now. Probably near five or six months in, I was intuitively understanding people’s positions based on context (including context I didn’t know I’d grasped!) – a sort-of intuitive and automatic empathy that changed the way I thought about almost everyone I interacted with.
It was a little like growing into Sherlock Holmes.
My vocabulary returned to a high baseline. I’d ‘trained’ myself to speak simply to be better understood, but Manhattan Method reversed that trend starkly. It isn’t quite like when I was a kid and I’d used the biggest word I knew because it made me sound ‘smart’ – it’s more like, “This word’s Latin root conveys greater gravitas and expertise and that’s the context I’m trying to relay here.”
For certain in my way of thinking, there’s a ‘Before Manhattan Method’ moment and an ‘After’ – I can see it clearly in my writing since then, I can see it even more clearly in my Field designs with the Astral Walkie Talkie, I can see it in how quickly I’ve been able to acquire new skills…
Regarding new skills, I’ve seen the largest boost when doing something related to something else I already know how to do. Net new stuff is also faster, but not as blazingly fast as connecting up a new concept to something I already know something about. Reasoning by analogy and by metaphor has become so second-nature that I can often take such accurate ‘guesses’ about things that it was hard to confirm whether or not Cyber Brain was doing what I thought it was doing!
I’ve always thought of myself as pretty smart, but like the Doc says (and gets quoted saying!) – you can always get smarter!
All that just to say: there’s no need to spam. These Brain Fields compound gradually over time in the coolest possible way. They harmonize and synergize with each other, growing your capacities across a dozen areas simultaneously. They give you new ideas about how to use them with each other. I especially love the synergy/‘fusion’ of Conceptual Conglomerate and Manhattan Method and now with Wholistic Thinking, it feels like a perfect trifecta.
Of course, your stamina also improves with time (and often, your hunger for results!), but a long commitment to the work can serve you just as well as a rabid dedication to spamming. Spamming is great if you can manage it, but brain growth is a long game and it’s worth committing to.
3x a day for 6 months and you’ll be a totally different person by the end of it – the same is true for a huge number of the other incredible tools we have available here.
I’m still going with this field (3-6x a day!) and I’m more than satisfied with the gradual unfolding of the experience.