Welcome everyone. I am your host Greg McEwen and I'm on this journey with you to learn.

And in today's episode we have a treat. Jeff Karp is here. He's a renowned Harvard Medical School

Professor, an MIT bioengineer. He is the author of a new book called LIT. It's more than a book really because it

helps us to be able to use the power of cross-disciplinary thinking to solve the most challenging problems

in our lives and in the world beyond us. This is going to be a terrific conversation. So, Jeff, welcome to the podcast.

Hey, so good to be here.

Thank you. Jeff, welcome to the podcast.

Hey, so good to be here. Thank you.

Tell us about LIT and the journey that led to it.

Greg, you know, the way I really think about LIT is to me it's a movement. It's, it's it's you know it's like the first time I'm saying it this way by the way because I feel everything there's always an evolution there's always an evolution of everything everything that you know you know, I've, things I've known for a long time,

I feel there's always ways to look at things differently.

And today I woke up and I thought, you know what,

LIT is a movement movement it's a movement of

resensitizing our aliveness it's waking up it's waking up to to what we have

within us and what exists outside of us.

It is about intercepting routine patterns

so that we can actively think and make decisions

versus just jumping in with habitual responses.

It's about figuring out what is the next step in anything to help us to keep that forward

momentum so we're continually growing and learning and just lighting up our brains,

lighting up our whole bodies. And it really came out of an experience, the initiation was an experience I had in the second grade.

And happy to go there next, but... Let's do it. Tell us about the origin story.

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