Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller, and this is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

try replacing all your goals with experiments to make real progress. So we as humans, we tend to look

at most everything with this linear perspective, like every day and our

lives are just a straight trajectory that's either getting better or worse. It's going up or down,

depending on the day. We look at our desires as these goals, and we work towards them seemingly

sequentially, right? Expecting to get closer every day on this so-called straight line. Well, my guest in this episode

is a neuroscientist who believes it's an errant perspective and what our lives and pursuits

really align with is tiny experiments. Instead of this sequential progress, we're often starting

over again and again until we get it right.

I recalled thinking about it, the TV series, Lessons in Chemistry, where the main character, Elizabeth Zott, she performed a lasagna recipe after making it, or she perfected it after making it 78 times.

Well, that wasn't a linear goal like we think about it,

but it was an exercise in starting over 78 times

with more wisdom each time.

And for me,

this helps with trying this and trying that

to see what works instead of pushing for one method

and feeling like a failure if it doesn't

work. So my guest, Dr. Ann Lorr Lecunf. She's a PhD, a neuroscientist, an entrepreneur, and a writer

whose work has been in peer-reviewed journals, Wired Magazine, Forbes, Fortune, and Entrepreneur.

And her new book is called Tiny Experiments,

How to Live Freely in a Goal Obsessed World. Really popular. It just came out and is selling

like crazy and I think rightly so. And it's a guide to adopting and living this more

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