Radically simple experimental tools to help people tap into a high-energy brain state to increase their innovative potential and shape their lives with intention - by the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab.
In an age of convenience and information overload, it's easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful lives. When we're accustomed to that default brain state and lulled by the comfort zone it creates, it's difficult to rouse ourselves to act with intention and create the lives we truly want to lead.
In LIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and biotech innovator, gives us the tools to maximize a high-energy brain state so we can get out of our ruts in work and in life and achieve our full human potential.
Diagnosed with learning differences at a young age, he persisted through nearly insurmountable struggles with support from his mom in developing ways to achieve hyper-awareness and maximize decisions based on his curiosity, passion, creativity, and connection to nature. As a student at McGill University and at the University of Toronto, as a researcher at MIT, and as a professor at Harvard Medical School, he evolved these approaches into LIT (Library of Ignition Tools) strategies - and road-tested these tools daily in his own personal life and with his lab team to innovate medical discoveries inspired by the "problem solving" they find throughout the natural world.
LIT teaches us to: turn inward and connect with what is truly important to us question assumptions navigate multiple streams of sensory input and manage information overload recognize manipulative messaging that can throw us off course.
Being LIT takes us off autopilot and helps us stay alert, present, and fully engaged in our lives.
Dr. Karp also shares insights from some of the world's most accomplished people, including Nobel Prize winners, an astronaut, an Olympic medalist, a founder of an Indigenous wellness center, a member of the MIT blackjack team, and numerous professors, inventors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and previous members of his laboratory.
Using Dr. Karp's principles, anyone can redirect their lives with energy, focus, creativity, motivation, willpower, and impact to create the lives they truly want to lead.
