LIT: Life Ignition Tools

Jeff Karp,Teresa Barker

• Editorial: William Morrow
• Año: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780063010758
• Categoría: Développement personnel
• Categoría: Réussite personnelle

S elected as a must-read by the curators of the Next Big Idea Book Club, including Daniel Pink, Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, and Adam Grant

"In this illuminating guide, Jeff Karp illustrates how we can break free from the routines that limit our thinking. LIT is an essential toolkit for converting intentions into actions that matter." —Daniel H. Pink, #1New York Timesbestselling author

"Don't we all want to tap our innermost talents of creativity, the full power of our good brains?... LIT is a blueprint for a richer, deeper life." —Diana Nyad

"Jeff Karp's much-needed book provides a spark and helps us lightourselves up from within — while lighting up the world around us, bringing joy and creativity to all aspects of our lives." —Arianna Huffington

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energybrain state to fireup innovative potential and shape their lives withintention—by the founder of a Harvardbiomedical engineering innovation lab.

In an age of convenience andinformation overload, it's easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing ourpotential for meaningful andimpactful lives. InLIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., professor at Brigham andWomen's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, andbiotech innovator, helps us lookto nature as a vital source of humankind's best wisdom, mostinspiredaction, and greatest good. Diagnosed with learning differencesat a young age, he persisted through nearly insurmountablestruggles withsupport from his mom in developing ways to achieve hyper-awareness and maximizedecisions based on his curiosity, passion, creativity, and connection to nature.He evolvedthese approaches into LIT (Life Ignition Tools) —and road-testedthesetools daily in his own personal life and with his lab team to innovate medicaldiscoveriesinspired by the "problem solving" process they find throughout the naturalworld.

LIT teaches us to:

• turninward and connect with what is truly important to us
• turnoutward to act on that, connecting with others and different ways of knowing
• questionassumptions—break out of habitual thinking and other patterns to discoverwhatreally serves you best
• explore, experiment, and discover fresh approaches to old challenges

Dr. Karp also shares insightsfrom some of the world's most accomplished people, including NobelPrizewinners, the founder of an Indigenous wellness center, a visionaryphotographer, a social justiceactivist, a five-time US memorychampion, an Olympic medalist, and a neurosurgeon who founded acenter for compassion, as well as professors, inventors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and members ofhislaboratory.

Using Dr. Karp's principles, anyone can redirect their lives with energy, focus, creativity, motivation, intention, and impact. Learningto be lit is the ultimaterenewable energy and is accessible to everyone, anytime, wherever you are.