Lit: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action

 
　　本書作者傑夫．卡普（Jeff Karp）博士，是哈佛醫學院生物醫學工程創新實驗室創辦人，美國國家發明家學會（National Academy of Inventors）院士，已取得逾百項專利，更有十二家公司根據實驗室的研究成果進行產品開發。在這部作品中，他將公開自己「點燃生命之火」的達人工具包，暢談創新者如何思考、行動，任何人都能從中獲得啟發。
 
　　想要讓大腦進入高能量的狀態，激發創新的潛能，並將靈感化為行動嗎？作者從童年時期就被診斷擁有學習障礙和ADHD，卻成功發展出透過好奇心、熱情、創造力，進入高能量、敏銳覺察狀態的方法。本書除了說明能量、警醒度與專注力、動機和意念，與創新、創造之間的關聯，也暢談創新的過程、方法與工具，學習如何：

• 向內自我探索，連結真正在乎的事
• 轉為外在行動，連結他人，透過不同方式精進所學所知。
• 質疑假設——打破慣性思維，找到合適的方法。
• 覺察感知，當資訊過載時的因應之道。
• 探索、實驗，在面對舊課題時，也能找出新方法。
• 避免僅以習慣做出反應，要積極地思考決策。

 
　　《LIT點燃生命之火》不僅談創新思考術，更是一本人生指南，鼓勵我們全心投入生活，採取有意義的行動，實踐理想人生。(文/博客來編譯)

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intention--by the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab.

In an age of convenience and information overload, it’s easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful lives. When we’re accustomed to a low energy brain state and lulled by the comfort zone it creates, it’s difficult to rouse ourselves to act with intention and create the lives we truly want to lead.

In LIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and biotech innovator, helps us look to nature as a vital source of humankind’s best wisdom, most inspired action, and greatest good.

Diagnosed with learning differences at a young age, he persisted through nearly insurmountable struggles with support from his mom in developing ways to achieve hyper-awareness and maximize decisions based on his curiosity, passion, creativity, and connection to nature. As a student at McGill University and at the University of Toronto, as a researcher at MIT, and as a professor at Harvard Medical School, he evolved these approaches into LIT (Life Ignition Tools) --and road-tested these tools daily in his own personal life and with his lab team to innovate medical discoveries inspired by the ＂problem solving＂ process they find throughout the natural world

LIT teaches us to:

• turn inward and connect with what is truly important to usturn outward to act on that, connecting with others and different ways of knowingquestion assumptions--break out of habitual thinking and other patterns to discover what really serves you bestnavigate multiple streams of sensory input and manage information overloadrecognize manipulative messaging that can throw us off courseexplore, experiment and discover fresh approaches to old challengesintercept routine patterns to actively think and decide versus just jumping in with habitual responses

LIT takes us off autopilot and helps us stay alert, present, and fully engaged in our lives.

Dr. Karp also shares insights from some of the world’s most accomplished people, including Nobel Prize winners, the founder of an Indigenous wellness center, a visionary photographer, a social justice activist, a five-time US memory champion, an Olympic medalist, a neurosurgeon who founded a center for compassion, and numerous professors, inventors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and members of his laboratory--all creatives in their own ways.

Using Dr. Karp’s principles, anyone can redirect their lives with energy, focus, creativity, motivation, intention, and impact to create the lives they truly want to lead. Learning to be lit is the ultimate renewable energy and is accessible to everyone, anytime, wherever you are.