{"id":188,"date":"2014-11-17T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2014-11-17T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:17:44","slug":"the-sneaky-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/the-sneaky-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sneaky Hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u201cHacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.\u201d\u00a0 (Woah\u2026)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kevin Mitnick<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hacking.\u00a0 Not through jungles. \u00a0Or getting the legs “hacked” from underneath you in the glorious sport that is football.<\/span> \u00a0I\u2019m referring to hacking, \u201cbio-hacking,\u201d terminology applied to \u201cgetting the job done\u201d in fast, sneaky, innovative ways.<\/p>\n

\"Arsenal<\/p>\n

\u201cHacking.\u00a0 Not this guy.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s stuff I like about the concept and there\u2019s stuff I do not like about hacking as an idea.\u00a0 As the quote above suggests, hacking is about seeking the quickest path to a result that you can find without losing the quality of that result.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHack into your body fat\u201d with a new diet, \u201chack into your strength\u201d with a particular rep\/set scheme.\u00a0 All these appeal, yet we need to question them.\u00a0 \u201cHacking\u201d is not the same as short-cut. <\/strong>\u00a0A short cut, taking fat burners for example, stretches a system (stress response system) to get a desired effect (weight loss).\u00a0 It achieves that and it ruins your health.\u00a0 Not hot.\u00a0 A hack, in this instance would be getting a tracking app and creating behavioural change, gathering data and feeling reward as the days pass.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Good \u201chacking\u201d is about recognising systems at work, how they intertwine and where best you can exert influence to affect the outcome.<\/strong>\u00a0 The better the hack, the more completely and holistically you\u2019ve addressed the topic.<\/p>\n

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Tim Ferris did \u201cthe slow carb\u201d diet.\u00a0 I\u2019m not advocating it either way but he created a spin on \u201clow carb.\u201d He told people what to eat, how often and it wasn\u2019t massively restricted.\u00a0 I think there were three rules to follow it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s successfully appealed to market, removed obstacles and made a complex topic very easy to follow.\u00a0 Hackster.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Make no mistake, if you want the body of your dreams you are going to have to address training, nutrition, psychology, social behaviours, physiology, bio chemistry and underwater goat wrestling (humour attention hack).\u00a0 How long will all that take you?\u00a0 \u201cHey!\u00a0 Just take these pills!\u201d (Short cut to tired nowhere).\u00a0 Or, get yourself a mentor<\/em><\/strong> or two and commit to an online course. That\u2019s a hack.\u00a0 How can you leverage your time and energy and current level of knowledge and awareness to enter a subject fully and start DOING IT?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"karate-kid2\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWax on, wax off.\u00a0 Mentor hack.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grind fresh coffee, get Spotify on my Bose speaker and write a blog in the space I\u2019ve designated for my clients booking sheet.\u00a0 They\u2019re REWARD hacks.\u00a0 I\u2019ve hacked my environment to appeal to my senses and that gets me writing every time.\u00a0 Thinking of writing can cause a block.\u00a0 Thinking of how cool the setting is going to be gets me to the work.\u00a0 Get it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"rewards\"<\/p>\n

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My daughter has been upset that her big Brother is outgrowing her a bit for play.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just bought her some art and craft kit so she can develop a new interest and get used to more independence.\u00a0 I don\u2019t force my son to play with her more.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The \u201chack,\u2019 as such, is to stimulate new interest that accomplishes everything needed\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hacking. Not through jungles. Or running from hockey masked psychopaths on ill informed group holidays in abandoned warehouses. I\u2019m referring to hacking, \u201cbio-hacking,\u201d terminology applied to \u201cgetting the job done\u201d in fast, sneaky, innovative ways.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}