LIT: Life Ignition Tools (eBook)

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energybrain state to fireup innovative potential and shape their lives withintentionby the founder of a Harvardbiomedical engineering innovation lab.In an age of convenience andinformation overload, its easy to go through the motions, pressured,distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing ourpotential for meaningful andimpactful lives. When were accustomed to a lowenergy 'robotic brain state'and lulled by thecomfort zone itcreates, its difficult to rouse ourselves to act with intention and create thelives wetruly want to lead.InLIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., professor at Brigham andWomens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, andbiotech innovator, helps us lookto nature as a vital source of humankinds 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 they find throughout the naturalworldLIT teaches us to:turninward and connect with what is truly important to usturnoutward to act on that, connecting with others and different ways of knowingquestionassumptionsbreak out of habitual thinking and other patterns to discoverwhatreally serves you bestnavigatemultiple streams of sensory input and manage information overloadrecognizemanipulative messaging that can throw us off courseexplore,experiment and discover fresh approaches to old challengesBeing LIT takes us off autopilotand helps us stay alert, present, and fully engaged in our lives.Dr. Karp also shares insightsfrom some of the worlds most accomplished people, including NobelPrizewinners, a 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.Using Dr. Karps 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 atanytime wherever you are at.