How Discovering Your Own Genius & Creativity Will Unlock Your Full Potential – Ozan Varol : 1039
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… former rocket scientist and former law professor Ozan Varol—an expert in creativity, innovation, and critical thinking—says that unlocking your full potential involves reimagining the status quo rather than simply resisting it.
“The word resist for me gets in the way because often resistance becomes a different way of conformity, as in you're resisting something but you're not really offering a new path forward,” he says. “So, resistance becomes its own end in and of itself. The goal should be re-imagination.”
In this discussion about Ozan’s newest book, “AWAKEN YOUR GENIUS: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary,” you’ll learn to access the best parts of your brain and create your own path as a leader and creator by acting instead of reacting.
While people consider those who blaze their own trail as geniuses, Ozan contends that genius is not limited to a select few. Rather, it can be discovered by anyone.
He loaded this book with smart tips, examples, things to think about, and things to do. For example, you’ll learn why you should ignore email until noon and spend the most valuable time of your day thinking in creativity. You’ll also learn how spending more time on the “why” than the “what” moves you toward the life you really want to be living. He lays out an action roadmap for you to cultivate your own genius and be in charge of your time and creativity.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:04.2 | Formerly, bulletproof radio. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.0 | I love to look at pretty much everything that gets written about making your brain work |
| 0:21.3 | better. |
| 0:22.3 | And I've got a bookshelf, actually more than one bookshelf, full of all the books that |
| 0:26.1 | I've read about this because people who think about thinking are some of the most interesting |
| 0:32.5 | people out there. |
| 0:34.4 | The trendy term for that is meta awareness or meta cognition. |
| 0:39.2 | But the idea here is our brains do things to save energy, including they make thinking |
| 0:46.8 | shortcuts that are actually really effective for not getting eaten by tigers, but maybe |
| 0:50.9 | aren't very effective for creating nuclear reactors that don't put carbon in the atmosphere. |
| 0:57.1 | So they're just different things. |
| 0:58.5 | And what do geniuses actually do? |
| 1:01.2 | It's interesting. |
| 1:02.2 | It's one of the reasons Jim Quick is a good friend. |
| 1:04.7 | He's been thinking about thinking and learning and things like that. |
| 1:08.6 | Today's guest, if I didn't foreshadow that clearly enough for you, is going to talk about |
| 1:14.8 | exactly that and how to awaken your genius. |
| 1:18.9 | And even if you think, well, I'm not a genius, there's very likely some parts of your brain |
| 1:24.5 | that you aren't using the right way or that you just didn't know how to turn it on. |
| 1:29.3 | And if the universe was fair, when you were born, or maybe when you were five years older, |
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