LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Natures Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a highenergy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intentionby the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab.In an age of convenience and information overload, its easy to go through the motions, pressured, distracted, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful lives. When were accustomed to a low energy brain state and lulled by the comfort zone it creates, its 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 Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and biotech innovator, helps us look to nature as a vital source of humankinds 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 hyperawareness 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 roadtested 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 worldLIT teaches us to: turn inward and connect with what is truly important to us turn outward to act on that, connecting with others and different ways of knowing question assumptionsbreak out of habitual thinking and other patterns to discover what really serves you best navigate multiple streams of sensory input and manage information overload recognize manipulative messaging that can throw us off course explore, experiment and discover fresh approaches to old challenges intercept routine patterns to actively think and decide versus just jumping in with habitual responsesLIT 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 worlds most accomplished people, including Nobel Prize winners, the founder of an Indigenous wellness center, a visionary photographer, a social justice activist, a fivetime US memory champion, an Olympic medalist, a neurosurgeon who founded a center for compassion, and numerous professors, inventors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and members of his laboratoryall creatives in their own ways.Using Dr. Karps 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.