Gay Hendricks | Genius, Limits & Conscious Luck
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Gay Hendricks exploded onto the human potential scene in 2009 with his mega New York Times bestselling book, The Big Leap, where he introduced the concept of the upper limit problems and the zone of genius, which he’s now re-envisioned as a spiral of genius. These ideas, along with tools to help work with them, were based on decades of clinical application and explained so much about why, even when we succeed, we tend to revert back. And it gave us a structure for understanding, then devoting ourselves to the type of work that accesses our fullest potential. Along with his wife, Katie, he’s continued to write, lead workshops around the world, often focused on mind-body practices, cultivating potential and deepening relationships, and he realized something. Without intending it, he’d figured out a methodology to cultivate what he calls conscious luck. Hendricks began codifying this idea years back but got busy with other projects until as luck would have it, just the right person would land in his world to help him turn the idea into a book, fittingly called Conscious Luck (https://amzn.to/2MGmzbL). We explore all of these ideas, along with so many of Gay’s unlikely, yet profoundly rewarding twists and turns along the way in today’s conversation.
You can find Gay Hendricks at:
Website : https://www.consciousluck.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hendricks.gay/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, my guest today, Gay Hendrix, really exploded into the human potential scene. |
| 0:11.7 | In 2009, with his Mega New York Times bestselling book The Big Leap, it was there that he introduced |
| 0:18.4 | this concept that he called the upper limit and upper limit problems and something called |
| 0:24.6 | the zone of genius, which he has now re-envisioned as a spiral of genius. |
| 0:29.2 | And we explore that in the conversation. |
| 0:31.3 | These ideas, along with the tools that he developed around them to really help work |
| 0:35.1 | with them and help bring them into your life, they were based on decades of clinical application. |
| 0:40.9 | And they explained so much about why even when we succeed, we tend to revert back. |
| 0:46.6 | And it gave us a structure for understanding and then devoting ourselves to the type of |
| 0:50.6 | work that accesses our fullest potential. |
| 0:53.4 | And along with his wife, Katie, he has continued to write to lead workshops around the world, |
| 0:58.0 | often focused on mind-body practices, cultivating potential and deepening relationships, and |
| 1:03.1 | then he kind of realized something along the way. |
| 1:05.5 | Without intending it, he had stumbled upon a methodology to cultivate what he calls conscious |
| 1:12.0 | luck. |
| 1:13.0 | So Gay began codifying this idea years back, but he got a little bit sidetracked. |
| 1:17.1 | He got busy with other projects until, as luck would have it, just the right person would |
| 1:22.2 | land in his world to help him turn that idea into a book, fittingly called conscious luck. |
| 1:29.1 | We explore all of the ideas, along with so many of Gay's unlikely yet really profoundly |
| 1:34.9 | rewarding twists and turns along the way in today's conversation. |
| 1:39.3 | So excited to share it with you. |
| 1:40.9 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
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