IQ vs. EQ With "Scorpion," Walter O'Brien : 469
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The differences between Intellectual Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence, and how one of the smartest men in the world hacks one to cover the other.
In this fascinating episode of Bulletproof Radio, Walter O'Brien (hacker handle: "Scorpion") is a high IQ child prodigy who started programming computers at age nine. He went on to found a think tank for hire that provides consulting and product development to companies, government, and military worldwide.
But here is the catch! He partners his high IQ employees, with what he calls "Super Nannies." People with high EQ to get the job done!
Also, in this episode, Dave Asprey talks about how he may "have been" on the spectrum and how most of his family tests high on the Asperger's scale.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Rady with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's cool fact of the day is that if you took all of the DNA in your body and stretched |
| 0:20.6 | it out as much as you could, it would reach from here to Pluto and back 17 times. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, at least that's what it said in the Science magazine, but they didn't say where in |
| 0:30.4 | the orbit of Pluto that would be since it's elliptical. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm a little skeptical on that one, but we'll say that that passes most. |
| 0:36.9 | It's one anyway. |
| 0:37.9 | That's your cool fact of the day. |
| 0:38.9 | What that means is you've got an awful lot of DNA in there, and that's kind of cool. |
| 0:42.8 | Most of it is, of course, replicating the same basic things over and over and over |
| 0:46.6 | since most cells in your body have all of that DNA in it. |
| 0:49.5 | So, it's maybe a less impressive than we thought. |
| 0:52.7 | Dave's guest is a fascinating guy. |
| 0:55.5 | A guy that I met a couple of years ago through Jim Quick. |
| 0:58.5 | You might remember Jim Quick, he's been a guest on Bulletproof Radio. |
| 1:01.4 | He's a good friend and one of the top memory coaches for Fortune 500 executives and celebrities |
| 1:08.4 | and just a great-hearted human being. |
| 1:10.8 | So I'm speaking at Jim's conference and he's like, Dave, you got to meet this guy. |
| 1:14.1 | He's one of the smartest people out there and runs this company and there's a TV show |
| 1:18.8 | based on him and so we sat down and had a really interesting conversation about emotional |
| 1:23.1 | intelligence. |
| 1:24.1 | And the TV show I'm talking about is called Scorpion and the smart guy sitting here in |
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