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#71: Unleashing Your Genius with Michael Gelb
Today`s guest is the world`s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organisational development, Michael Gelb. In addition to writing 17 books that include the best-seller How to think like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael has been named the Brain of the year in 1999, performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, owns a fifth degree black belt in Aikido and speaks on stages around the world about improving brain power, creativity and leadership.
Max Out Insights:
Whatever your gifts and talents are, the goal of life is to mine them to the best of your ability
If traditional life and career paths don`t fit for you, you might have to make up your own
100 Question Exercise: Without stopping, write down 100 questions that are intriguing to you. As Michael shares, random insights into the deeper questions of life often occur as a result
When crazy ideas arise, record them. The more you record them, the more show up.
The most creative geniuses alter times of intense focus with periods of complete relaxation away from their work
Stream of consciousness writing and mind mapping are great tools to access the smarter parts of yourself
Find a way to instill curiosity and a thirst for knowledge and satisfy it every day
When you fall down, the only thing that matters is how quickly you can recover and how long you go before you remember what your purpose is
Max Out Quotes:
“You don`t have to know what you`re going to do, but figure out what your criteria are: What do you stand for? What are your values? What do you want your life to be about?”
“You don`t have to figure it out all at once.”
“I kept doing one thing at a time that I really loved and figured out how I could learn it as intensively and achieve as much mastery as possible in the shortest amount of time possible.”
“There`s a part of you that is way smarter than you are, and the smartest people learn to consult the smarter part of themselves.”
“Without energy, you won`t get anything done.”
“It`s actually easy to get great ideas. The hard part is following through on them.”
“There is too much suffering in the world, so our work is not done. There is too much stupidity in the world, so our work is not done.”
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Today`s guest is the world`s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organisational development, Michael Gelb. In addition to writing 17 books that include the best-seller How to think like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael has been named the Brain of the year in 1999, performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, owns a fifth degree black belt in Aikido and speaks on stages around the world about improving brain power, creativity and leadership.
Max Out Insights:
Whatever your gifts and talents are, the goal of life is to mine them to the best of your ability
If traditional life and career paths don`t fit for you, you might have to make up your own
100 Question Exercise: Without stopping, write down 100 questions that are intriguing to you. As Michael shares, random insights into the deeper questions of life often occur as a result
When crazy ideas arise, record them. The more you record them, the more show up.
The most creative geniuses alter times of intense focus with periods of complete relaxation away from their work
Stream of consciousness writing and mind mapping are great tools to access the smarter parts of yourself
Find a way to instill curiosity and a thirst for knowledge and satisfy it every day
When you fall down, the only thing that matters is how quickly you can recover and how long you go before you remember what your purpose is
Max Out Quotes:
“You don`t have to know what you`re going to do, but figure out what your criteria are: What do you stand for? What are your values? What do you want your life to be about?”
“You don`t have to figure it out all at once.”
“I kept doing one thing at a time that I really loved and figured out how I could learn it as intensively and achieve as much mastery as possible in the shortest amount of time possible.”
“There`s a part of you that is way smarter than you are, and the smartest people learn to consult the smarter part of themselves.”
“Without energy, you won`t get anything done.”
“It`s actually easy to get great ideas. The hard part is following through on them.”
“There is too much suffering in the world, so our work is not done. There is too much stupidity in the world, so our work is not done.”