UPWIRE®: Unlocking Your True Potential
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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Friday Dec 04, 2015
Friday Dec 04, 2015
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 work.
Friday Nov 27, 2015
Friday Nov 27, 2015
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.
Friday Nov 20, 2015
Friday Nov 20, 2015
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.
Friday Nov 13, 2015
Friday Nov 13, 2015
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.
Friday Nov 06, 2015
Friday Nov 06, 2015
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.
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Friday Oct 30, 2015
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.
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
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.
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
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.
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
Thursday Oct 22, 2015
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.
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
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.
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