I Almost Bought Modafinil To Boost My Productivity. Here’s Why I Didn’t Do It Finally.

The thought is tempting. Take a pill and next thing you know, your brain’s on fire. You suddenly find it easy to work, and you can continue working for hours without a break, without being exhausted. This miracle cure exists. I almost bought it.

For years I have been interested in how I can be more productive and do more in less time.

It’s not like I’m a workaholic. It’s the opposite. For me, increasing productivity is a means to an end. If I can do more work in less time with the same quality, I will end up with more free time.

So my goal is to improve my quality of life. If it is possible to work so concentrated that I can do in half a day what I would otherwise need a whole day for, I can do whatever I want in the rest of the time.

For these reasons, I have been dealing with the topic of increasing productivity for years. There are many different approaches to becoming more productive and efficient, and most of them have to do with work methodology or psychology.

Within the last six years, I have managed to go from being a chronic lazybones to a hyper-productive author. I have achieved all this through practice, improving my work processes, and increasing my self-discipline.

So I could be satisfied. To publish a book every two months and to publish a new article every day is not something that everybody can do. Nevertheless, I still want more.

Once you have experienced what it is like to be successful in a field, you automatically want more. You want more success in your current area, and you also want to try other things.

But at some point, you reach your natural limits. There are only twenty-four hours a day, and you don’t want to spend them all working. As I said before, I am actually lazy. I want to do more in less time so that I have more free time.

So what can you do if you can’t create more time? You have to figure out how to be more productive in the time available.

Work methodology and psychological tactics quickly reach their limits here. The biological boundaries can only be shifted marginally. After a few hours of concentrated work, the brain needs a break. If you give up this break, you pay for it with a sharp drop in performance.

This is where biohacking comes into play.

Biohacking is about making the body and the mind more efficient with biological means. Biohacking starts with sports, continues with nutrition, and extends to the vast field of so-called smart drugs.

Modafinil is one of the best known and most effective smart drugs. Initially, this drug was developed for the treatment of narcolepsy. Today, especially in the USA, where it is available over the counter, it is also used by many healthy people who want to perform better at work.

I have come across many testimonials on the net that tell, in the most dazzling colors, how powerful this drug is. I will not link any of these reports here, as I do not want to advertise Modafinil.

These reports talk about how the consumers were suddenly able to work through many hours in a highly concentrated way without feeling any urge for distraction. They report unknown mental clarity and that after six hours of sleep, one is as fit as usual after nine hours.

I was fascinated. I wanted to experience that too. So I began to look for a way to get this drug. With me in Germany, it is impossible to get Modafinil legally if you don’t really suffer from narcolepsy.

So I searched the internet for online shops that also deliver to Germany and whose deliveries, according to customer reports, are not confiscated continuously by German customs.

It didn’t take me half a day to find an appropriate online shop with the best reviews from external bloggers, and that ships out of the EU. Because of the shipping within the EU, it is almost impossible that customs confiscate delivery.

The price for thirty tablets was 95 Euros. I had read that half a pill a day is enough. So the package would last for sixty days. Since I would only take the drug on working days, I was supposed to get by with twelve weeks.

There I was, sitting in front of my laptop, with a pack of Modafinil already in my shopping cart and ready to pay.

And then I did what I often do when I suddenly get the feeling that I’m making a rash decision. I got up and went to my terrace to think.

Had I perhaps done my research too one-sidedly? I remembered that I had been searching Google for positive experiences. I wanted to read this superhero story and imagine what it would be like to have experiences like that.

If the headline indicated that it was about Modafinil’s possible dangers and risks, I didn’t click on the relevant websites. All my research was aimed at convincing myself of the harmlessness of Modafinil.

So I decided to read a few of these reports first and only then decide if I really wanted to try Modafinil.

During this second round of research, I learned that not everyone had had good experiences with this drug. Some users reported sleeping disorders, while others wrote about increased aggressiveness and problems with their social environment, which could not cope with the sudden personality change of a well-known person.

Above all, I became increasingly aware that there are no long-term clinical studies that have investigated the long-term effects of Modafinil on the body and the psyche.

Suddenly I was no longer convinced that I really wanted to take this stuff. The risk seemed too high.

Instead of making me a guinea pig, I realized that I should instead lower my expectations regarding myself.

Isn’t it enough what I’ve achieved so far? My productivity level may not be sufficient to achieve more than it has been, but that’s not really necessary. Having a mastermind is still a tempting thought, but if I can only have it by risking my health, it’s not worth it.

I went back to the online shop website, emptied my shopping cart, and closed the page.

Did my concerns cause me to lose a fascinating experience? Maybe so. I will never know. But when I make a decision, I stand by it and do not look back.

But if at some point there is a Smart Drug that has proven to have no adverse side effects, I will try it. The dream of the super brain lives on in me. But I am not willing to risk everything for it.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.

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