This podcast explores the neuroscience of Hacking Human Nature to find better ways to make breakthroughs and unlock your true potential in life and work.
UPWIRE® is presented by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., a neuroscientist, leadership advisor, New York Times bestselling author (with over 4 million books sold), and founder of the acclaimed 12 Leaders® program.
UPWIRE® will feature stories and wisdom from Dr. Cooper, along with his latest thoughts and ideas, interviews, and newest research findings. Cooper provides compelling insights drawn from his work with elite performers and top leaders using neuroscience to get the most out of their brains, their time, and their performance.
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This podcast explores the neuroscience of Hacking Human Nature to find better ways to make breakthroughs and unlock your true potential in life and work.
UPWIRE® is presented by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., a neuroscientist, leadership advisor, New York Times bestselling author (with over 4 million books sold), and founder of the acclaimed 12 Leaders® program.
UPWIRE® will feature stories and wisdom from Dr. Cooper, along with his latest thoughts and ideas, interviews, and newest research findings. Cooper provides compelling insights drawn from his work with elite performers and top leaders using neuroscience to get the most out of their brains, their time, and their performance.
The brain loves big, complicated, later and never. Exceptional leaders and teams choose the exact opposite: breakthroughs and rules that are small, simple, now and next. In this UPWIRE, we'll look at how the smallest change can make the biggest difference in your life and work.
The brain is hard-wired to be stuck in a defensive "me-first" mode. It despises criticism and over emphasizes every perceived slight, ultimately leading to artificial roadblocks to your (and your team's) success. In this podcast, we'll look at how you can UPWIRE your brain to move beyond this default flaw-finding "me-first" operating system, and create a culture of growth for yourself and others.
The brain is hard-wired to shrink, not soar. But inside each of us is a quiet lifelong beckoning call which will awaken the courage to face uncertainty, grow and achieve the "impossible." In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how to develop and deploy our inner NERVE to face change, loss and growing pains without collapsing or running away.
By hard-wired human nature, the brain seeks to be out of touch. Instead of engaging with and achieving your best possible future, the brain much prefers the comfort of mindless repetition, distraction, and awaiting the return of the "good old days." When you are out of touch for as little as a few days or a week, it's not a neutral state. You are already losing clients or customers who yearn for more meaningful connection with you. In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll take a look at simple strategies for staying in touch with life's larger opportunities by mastering brief and frequent connections.
The brain is largely a forgetting machine, and in today's fast-paced world, it's primed to forget what matters most faster than ever! In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll take a look at how you can structure your schedule to make sure the goals and individuals vital to helping you create your most amazing future receive at least a few moments of your best attention.
To the brain, momentum is not natural. Instead, it prefers
interruptions, distractions or anything gives the illusion of
activity or movement: brain circuits which are firing frequently
but not forwardly.
In this podcast, we'll look at how to scale momentum and
consciously align our brainpower with what matters most in our life
and work.
The brain loves to keep hundreds of top priorities actively
floating around. The problem is the goal traffic jam which
inevitably results, burning valuable mental energy and leading to
reduced performance.
In part two of this podcast, we'll learn how to set 1st
Priorities for the brain, and how to create automatic drivers which
will keep us focused on making progress on our top goals.
The brain is hard-wired to run from challenges (real or
imaginary), while barely walking toward opportunities, no
matter how amazing.
In part one of this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how to
implement automatic drivers which kick in at the start of every
choice, action and interaction, and relentlessly and effectively
prompt the brain to grow.
The brain gets hijacked by many forms of competition.
Fortunately, so does almost everyone else's brain.
In this podcast, we'll look at how competition negatively
impacts our growth, and learn some simple ways to UPWIRE our lives
to move from simply competing to truly
excelling.
By instinct, the brain waits for everyone else to change.
If we want to UPWIRE our lives, we must lead by example, go
first, test better ways forward-upward and not wait for
others.
In this podcast, we'll look at some simple methods for
hacking human nature which provide the catalyst that raises
performance and drives new growth.
The brain is largely lost in its own labyrinth of vagueness and will choose to stay there unless you're willing to lead it out of the shadows.
In this podcast, we'll learn the power of framing, and how connecting now with next fuels exceptional growth.
Left to its own devices, the brain is a go-second machine,
willing to happily follow someone else. The problem, of
course, is that if we're always ready to follow, how will we ever
achieve our biggest goals in our life and work?
In part one of this UPWIRE, we'll learn how to let our behavior
and life speak for itself and propel us past our brain's hard-wired
tendencies.
Clarity helps the brain move out of the blur and aim at what
matters most.
In part two of this podcast, we'll look at some additional
techniques we can use to hack human nature and gain instant clarity
in any situation.
In all aspects of our lives, chaos (either real or invented by
our brains) can quickly destroy focus, leave us without direction
and derail us from achieving the future we want.
In part one of this podcast, we'll focus on the importance of
clarity and how it propels us forward-upward out of the blur.
The brain loves "tomorrow", "later" or "never." It
constantly imagines itself far into some vague but wonderful
future. Unless you learn to masterfully guide your brain, it
doesn't do much to make that future a reality.
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll look at a simple mechanism
called WEEKLIES which can fuel accelerated growth for you and your
team.
By hard-wired human nature, the brain magnifies every single
negative small thing in life, consuming vast amounts of time and
energy.
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how we can quickly hack
human nature and aim our brains toward growth. We can reclaim
our time, energy and passion by learning to sweat the right small
stuff and ditch the rest!
Your brain is the biggest barrier between where you are and
where you want to be. It easily becomes overloaded with
useless distractions, negative emotions and excess "baggage."
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn to recognize when the
brain is creating its own gridlock, and how we can move past and
transcend this barrier using a technique called streamlining.
The brain always thinks there's a big puzzle somewhere which
makes sense of everything--if only it could find all the
pieces. Waiting to see and understand all the pieces is what keeps
many of us from pursuing and achieving our top goals.
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll look at how we can accelerate
our growth by helping our brain see how today's puzzle pieces
connect to our most amazing future.
Left to its own devices, the brain loves to get lost in the
blur. The brain mistakes motion for work that actually
matters, confusing hyper-activity with meaningful progress.
In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll look at how exceptional leaders
and teams work around this trap and move out of the blur.
This podcast explores the neuroscience of Hacking Human Nature to find better ways to make breakthroughs and unlock your true potential in life and work.
UPWIRE® is presented by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., a neuroscientist, leadership advisor, New York Times bestselling author (with over 4 million books sold), and founder of the acclaimed 12 Leaders® program.
UPWIRE® will feature stories and wisdom from Dr. Cooper, along with his latest thoughts and ideas, interviews, and newest research findings. Cooper provides compelling insights drawn from his work with elite performers and top leaders using neuroscience to get the most out of their brains, their time, and their performance.
