Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Could you see yourself hanging onto every word your boss utters at a meeting and then giving him back a project -- that holds all his best ideas... the next morning?

The Bioethics and Politics Blog, tells us the “smart pills” are here to stay. Quoting from A Dose Of Genius, they warn drugs like Provigil are taking off because they are seeing enhanced performance in higher education:

College students are calling the pills,  “the winner's edge’ – as their  3.8 averages are nudging toward the 4.0, which could land them Ivy League status.  Where are kids getting the drugs?  Many say they get pills free… from friends with legitimate prescriptions...

Why is this movement significant…?  Few deny that memory enhancement drugs of much higher sophistication will soon be on the market.

In spite of this drug's rather primitive level… compared to what you’ll get soon… still, sales have “increased by more than 300 percent in only four years, topping $3.6 billion last year, according to IMS Health, a pharmaceutical information company.”

Smart pills include Adderall, prescribed for people with attention-deficit disorder, and Provigil, for narcoleptics, who fall asleep during the day.

“In the healthy, this class of drugs variously aids concentration, alertness, focus, short-term memory and wakefulness -- useful qualities in students working on complex term papers and pulling all-nighters before exams. Adderall sales are up 3,135.6 percent over the same period. Provigil is up 359.7 percent.”

Thanks to Bioethics and Politics site … you can listen for yourself to this testimony. Does news of the pill at work make you feel sleepy or smarter?