Awaken Your Genius: Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary
Ozan Varol
Apr 2023 · John Murray · Narrated by Ozan Varol
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From the critically acclaimed author of Think Like a Rocket Scientist comes a simple process for discarding obsolete beliefs and cultivating independent thought.
A rare handful of leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs seem to have Teflon in their heads. They think and act with genuine independence, offering up ideas and insights direct from the subtle workings of their own minds. No matter how far that might take them from their social or political group.
We sometimes call these people geniuses, as if they're another breed. But genius doesn't have to belong to just a few people-it can be cultivated.
Great thinkers operate unconstrained by the opinions of others-or their own past opinions. They can act on new information regardless of the beliefs they once held, or identities they once adopted. They distinguish fact from manipulation. And just as importantly, they act first instead of reacting-creating new ideas and opportunities for themselves and others.
This is an audiobook for aspiring universe-denters: executives and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, individuals who want to escape groupthink, discard obsolete and harmful beliefs, generate breakthrough ideas, spot hidden opportunities, and flourish in a world of ever-increasing manipulation, change, and challenge. In short, it's an audiobook for geniuses.
(P) 2023 Hachette Audio
A rare handful of leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs seem to have Teflon in their heads. They think and act with genuine independence, offering up ideas and insights direct from the subtle workings of their own minds. No matter how far that might take them from their social or political group.
We sometimes call these people geniuses, as if they're another breed. But genius doesn't have to belong to just a few people-it can be cultivated.
Great thinkers operate unconstrained by the opinions of others-or their own past opinions. They can act on new information regardless of the beliefs they once held, or identities they once adopted. They distinguish fact from manipulation. And just as importantly, they act first instead of reacting-creating new ideas and opportunities for themselves and others.
This is an audiobook for aspiring universe-denters: executives and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, individuals who want to escape groupthink, discard obsolete and harmful beliefs, generate breakthrough ideas, spot hidden opportunities, and flourish in a world of ever-increasing manipulation, change, and challenge. In short, it's an audiobook for geniuses.
(P) 2023 Hachette Audio
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Slimane Rechdi
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simply an incredible read!
About the author
Ozan Varol is from Istanbul, Turkey. He grew up in a family of no English speakers yet moved to the United States by himself at 17 to study Astrophysics at Cornell University, where he served on the operations team for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers project, building stuff that went to the red planet and writing code to photograph the Martian surface. Subsequently Ozan pivoted to law and he is currently the youngest tenured professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
A "true original" in the words of Adam Grant, his work has been described as "must-read" by Susan Cain and featured by the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, and many other outlets. His newsletter, The Weekly Contrarian, has over 31,000 dedicated subscribers.
A sought-after speaker, Ozan has delivered keynotes at conferences, major companies like Microsoft, Intel, General Electric, Lloyds Bank, Google X, and Adidas, and government agencies including the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy.
A "true original" in the words of Adam Grant, his work has been described as "must-read" by Susan Cain and featured by the Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, CNN, Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, and many other outlets. His newsletter, The Weekly Contrarian, has over 31,000 dedicated subscribers.
A sought-after speaker, Ozan has delivered keynotes at conferences, major companies like Microsoft, Intel, General Electric, Lloyds Bank, Google X, and Adidas, and government agencies including the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy.
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