LIT: Life Ignition Tools
Jeff Karp, Teresa Barker
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
LIT: Life Ignition Tools
Jeff Karp, Teresa Barker
About This Book
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. When we're accustomed to a lowenergy brain state and lulled by thecomfort zone itcreates, it's difficult to rouse ourselves to act with intention and create thelives wetruly want to lead.
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.As a student at McGillUniversity and at the University of Toronto, as aresearcher at MIT, and as a professor at HarvardMedical School, 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
- navigatemultiple streams of sensory input and manage information overload
- recognizemanipulative messaging that can throw us off course
- explore, experiment and discover fresh approaches to old challenges
- intercept routine patterns to actively think and decide versus just jumping in with habitual responses
LIT takes us off autopilotand helps us stay alert, present, and fully engaged in our lives.
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, a neurosurgeon who founded acenter for compassion, andnumerous professors, inventors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and members ofhislaboratory—all creatives in their own ways.
Using Dr. Karp's principles, anyone can redirect their lives with energy, focus, creativity, motivation, intention, and impact to create the lives they truly want to lead. Learningto be lit is the ultimaterenewable energy and is accessible to everyone, anytime, wherever you are.