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UPWIRE: Hacking Human Nature

UPWIRE: Hacking Human Nature to Unlock 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. For more on Robert Cooper visit http://www.cooper.website
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Mar 18, 2016

Our brains are wired for distraction and not for paying attention.  Distraction is just our brains having their way with us, leading us away from achieving our goals and creating the life we want.

The good news is we can overcome the temptations of distraction by managing our brains (instead of letting them manage us.)  In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll take a look at some simple strategies for doing this.

Mar 11, 2016

Think about your future.  Do you want the future you deliberately create or the one that happens to you?  Although it doesn't want to help, you need your brain's help to create your best possible future.

In this episode of UPWIRE, we'll look at how we can change what's holding us back in our brain so we can change it.

Mar 4, 2016

The key to UPWIRING your brain is learning, especially when the learning is new, effortful and successful.  But how do we commit to practicing the right kind of learning?

In this episode of UPWIRE, I'll share some techniques to build the right process to keep this right kind of learning alive and impactful.

Feb 26, 2016

Every day, many thousands of new cells are created in your brain.  Some die quickly, while others contribute to better thinking, decision-making, and enabling the life you want.

In this podcast, we'll learn how we can guide and maximize the formation of the kinds of neurons which UPWIRE our life.  You CAN build a bigger and better brain!

Feb 19, 2016

The brain is built with an immense untapped capacity to grow, but is hardwired to play small and clutch past habits and old routines.

In this podcast, we'll explore a range of new ways to UPWIRE these default brain tendencies to achieve what everyone else thinks is "impossible."

Feb 12, 2016

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.” 

Feb 5, 2016

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.

Jan 29, 2016

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.

Jan 22, 2016

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?

Jan 15, 2016

"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.

Jan 8, 2016

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.

Dec 31, 2015

In order to achieve amazing results, consciously design your environment with more of what bugs you in order to drive the changes that matter.

Dec 23, 2015

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.

Dec 18, 2015

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.

Dec 11, 2015

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.

Dec 4, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nov 6, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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