EPISODE #54 – THRIVE IN UNCERTAINTY
PERCEPTION IS EVERYTHING
Are you in a spiral of expansion? Or a loop of safety and conserving energy?
In 2016 I purchased a book. A book that like many others before it, I knew would hold gold and insights to help me be a better person, leader, thinker and builder of great people. This of course was my assumption.
Important side note – I also had 1/10th the business, community, impact, and income I had back then, compared to now.
There’s this great idea that to truly know something, it wont just be in your head. But rather, it will make it’s way into your heart and body to take a fuller form. To quite literally, in-form you. As with any great insight and wisdom, it’s funny to imagine that a specific combination of words the right way can create a cascade of change in it’s reader or listener.
In this episode with incredible mind and neuroscientist Beau Lotto we go on a ride to understand the self, along the way discovering some incredibly important distinctions. Distinctions between confidence and trust, validating and understanding, spiralling and looping.
Tim has an obsession with helping people move from A to B and in this episode they dissect what it means to move from A to not A, letting go of the meaning of the thing (A) and allow the journey of uncertainty to move you beyond your comfort point.
This episode was was NXT LVL, you won’t want it to end;
- Giving young people that sense of trust can create the courage that gives them the possibility of doing something, knowing that there is a very good chance it’s not going to succeed (00:17:00)
- Context is arbitrary… everything is context to everything else, because everything is in relationship. (00:28:50)
- The only way to create that meaning is to behave in the world, and to construct meaning according to what was and what wasn’t useful. (00:37:40)
- The way we walk is to throw ourselves out of balance… to walk is to be constantly falling. (00:43:25)
- “The only way to find that dynamic equlibrium is to go past it.” (00:44:25)
- Play celebrates not knowing. Science celebrates not knowing. (00:49:10)
- The way your body conserves energy is to not go into uncertainty, to not ask questions (00:52:30)
- People aren’t aware of the context that they create for themselves and the future that they then have to respond to. (00:54:20)
- If you really want to understand yourself and actually grow, be a sandbar for someone else. (00:55:35)
- Find the impossible in the common.(01:23:25)
- Evolution gave us the feeling of pleasure in playing as a reward for playing, which suggests that playing must be important to do. (01:33:30)
- Once you understand how perception works, that everything is grounded in your biases and assumptions at the beginning of your perception, you can then become an active agent in the process of making sense.(01:47:30)
Resources:
Deviate A book everyone must read.
Connect with Beau Lotto
KEY INSIGHTS & LEARNINGS
Circumstance does not make us, it reveals us. If you want more of anything, be it freedom, direction, confidence, clarity or just calm. To becoming more and excel, there are only 3 areas you can train to achieve this:
UNDERSTANDING MEANING
PERCEPTION
SERVICE
QUOTES FROM THE PODCAST
“People aren’t aware of the context they create for themselves and the future that they then have to respond too”
“Giving young people that sense of trust can create the courage that gives them the possibility of doing something, knowing that there is a very good chance it’s not going to succeed.”
“Celebrate doubt. Celebrate not knowing something, because then in doing so you have the possibility of actually learning something.”
“Courage is doing something with the knowledge that it is not likely to succeed, and there’s a cost to it”
“In order to find out who you are, you have to give too much or too little yourself.”
“If you really want to understand yourself and actually grow, be a sandbar for someone else.”