The brain is capable of rising but is hard-wired to glide and fall. Being “in the climb” requires one of the simplest yet most powerful skill sets. In this podcast, we'll examine how to UPWIRE your ingenuity and momentum by entering - and maintaining - the climb and achieve what others consider “impossible.”
The brain often mistakes effort and motion for progress, tricking us into thinking we're getting somewhere. In this 2-Minute Friday episode of UPWIRE, we'll learn how to Build More and Run Less.
By nature, the brain waits, seeking perfect in every aspect of our lives. But no matter how skilled or diligent we get at seeking perfect, perfect never happens. Exceptional leaders and teams know that life and breakthrough successes are all about the imperfect rise. And in this podcast, we'll take a look at how you can develop and implement this simple technique to UPWIRE your life.
Exceptional leaders and teams make it look easy to demonstrate courage. It is not. It is a choice to be made again and again every day from the depths of the human heart and spirit. How much does the most amazing future matter to you? Enough to continually take significant risks – whether large or small – to grow and see it through?
"Our patterns are our prisons." My grandfather was keenly aware of the human brain's preference to play small rather than rise to meet our expectations and true abilities. In this podcast, we'll take a look at why our brain prefers to keep us repeating old habits, and how we can break through these pervasive barriers and UPWIRE our behavior to achieve our best possible future.
The human brain easily notices and magnifies the smallest perceived negative, while missing genuine acts of ingenuity, kindness, and breakthroughs. In this podcast, we'll take a look at a simple performance-elevating technique for turning every negative feeling into productive forward-upward fuel.
In order to achieve amazing results, consciously design your environment with more of what bugs you in order to drive the changes that matter.
Left on its own, the brain is hard-wired to drift away from trust, preferring to focus on fear, worry, doubt and distance. In this podcast, we'll take a look at how exceptional leaders and teams dare to trust in order to achieve meaningful relationships and productive collaborations.
Left to its own natural instincts, the brain is blissfully unaware of its level of engagement with the world and your priorities. Exceptional leaders and teams understand the risk of this non-peak-engagement: the difference between mediocre and meaningful, between “trapped in the blur” and leading and then changing the game.
The human brain imagines it has a magic crystal ball that can decipher people's motives and intentions and see beneath the surface of life. But the truth about other people and life is rarely what we initially assume it to be. In this podcast, we learn how to move beyond this trap, and how this new sense of clarity speeds the right progress sooner.
An essential ingredient for accelerated growth into your most amazing future is a clear and compelling connection between HERE and the best possible THERE. I call this The Brain’s Bridge™ and if you don’t bring it into view and feeling at the start of every interaction and choice, your brain is mostly lost, busy in details and activities, but not in significant or scalable growth. In this podcast, I'll show you how to develop and aim this vital skill to achieve breakthroughs in your life and wor...
In this podcast, Roberts shares the latest neuroscience research on how a single powerful moment of memory can change our performance state and what happens next.
By nature, the human brain is a master nitpicker and poor farmer for new breakthroughs. Exceptional leaders and teams understand this, and UPWIRE their progress by applying precise doses of positive emotional energy to grow new opportunities and move beyond old thinking. In this podcast, we look at how these leaders and teams make it look easy and grow results ten-fold.
By nature, the brain lives on a treadmill of repetition. Stuck in the hard-wired past, the brain is quick to judge and run, and slow to innovate and contribute. In this podcast, Robert shows us how to incorporate the right dose of positive emotion into the precise spots in our daily routine in order to move beyond our brain's natural tendencies.
The brain is built to RISE, but wired to ROUTINE. It is ever-vigilant in noticing and criticizing anything wrong, while missing almost every positive change. In this podcast, Robert shares some insights on how we can recognize and then steer our brains away from its natural attraction to the negative, in order to UPWIRE our attitude and behavior.
Annual Gallup surveys show that nearly two-thirds of all leaders and three-forths of all employees are disengaged at work. There are countless books and training programs aimed at increasing engagement, yet we are losing that battle. In this short podcast, Robert discusses the power of Pre-Engagement (PRE) and how applying PRE can quickly and effectively increase your engagement.
In this 2-Minute Friday podcast, Robert discusses how long it takes to impact or change a life. Learn how a simple "pause" can lead to the greatest difference.
What is your mind prepared to comprehend? From jazz pianist Art Tatum's unique performance abilities to renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow's daily "choice", Robert Cooper shares insights on why our brains naturally lead us away from what is possible, and how we can apply simple workarounds by Hacking Human Nature.
How old is your brain's basic programming? Is this the right "performance code" for achieving our goals in today's hectic and modern world? In this podcast, Robert Cooper discusses neuroplasticity and how Hacking Human Nature allows us to UPWIRE and steer a better course into our best possible future.
At any given moment, we can suddenly face adversity, an unexpected challenge, or feel the drain of a negative look or comment or feeling. In that one split-second, the brain loses control. Your attention, energy and sense of perspective have been hijacked, and threaten to spiral out of control unless quickly checked. In this podcast, Robert shares insights on why our brain behaves this way, and how we can UPWIRE these brain tendencies and change our course of action with a Split-Second Turn....
Do you know why you do what you do? Why you react a certain way? Do you have an active choice in everything you do? In this episode, Robert provides insight on how we can UPWIRE our stubborn hard-wired brain tendencies in order to stop doing old habits and routines and start doing what matters most.
Today's blend of noise, technology and distraction-on-demand creates a perfect playground for the brain to indulge in what it loves to do: dabble, coast, seek entertainment, wander and hide. In this podcast, Robert explores the brain's hard-wired tendency to seek new stimuli, and how we can UPWIRE our behavior and actions to achieve what's possible.
Aiming to be "good" often leads to mediocrity. Becoming "great" can potentially trap us forever in a state of perceived success. Only the ongoing drive to surpass our very best can allow us to reach what is possible.
By nature, the human brain is drawn toward mediocre routines and old habits, preventing us from reaching our true potential In this podcast, Robert explores how we can reach deeper and unlock our vast untapped capacity to achieve bigger and more meaningful goals.
Left to its own devices, the brain is hard-wired to steadily and stubbornly die on the vine instead of grow in the climb. Overcoming the brain's tendency to "play small" is possible, but we must make a conscious effort to choose and accelerate growth.
