That one I like a lot, because when you're an innovation entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur, you're a disrupter . And we are all disrupters . Somebody reminded me that a lot of what you work in here is around product entrepreneurship and around a service surrounding a product.
most of our time trying to eliminate risk or at least mitigate it and box it in. And yet we're now talking about disrupters and innovators within a big company or startup entrepreneurs who deliberately invite more risk into their lives, which is a fairly bonkers thing to do if you think about it.
And just sort of winding it back, I think it's always helpful at these things to frame this and really understand what we're talking about. So whether you're at Google as an innovator or a disrupter within a big company, or you're an entrepreneur like a CityMapper founder, your job is to take risks.
But again, you've got to disrupt in order to recreate and rebuild. So keep it in mind that you're all disrupters , right here, right now. So let's have a little fun with this and go into a brain scan.
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And I think it's really important to sort of start there and ground it in this is all about people who take risks-- as I said, whether those people are entrepreneurs in a startup or whether they're innovators disrupters within a big company like Google. And then just pause there for a second and reflect on that because I think most of us in the real world spend
And so there are moments in life when we face these trade-off points that we have to consider. And especially with the role of technology, it could be both a disrupter , but it can be an enabler. And I think you make that point here in terms of all the new things that we can leverage technology for.
How can we live with greater happiness and mindfulness in the digital age? Is this even possible, or is it truly the greatest disrupter of happiness in human history? In the past 10 years, we have found that technology has sped up so dramatically that we find ourselves overwhelmed and unprepared for the challenges
it's subtle but it's real. Sleep is important. What do you do about sleep then? And what do you do about the sex drive and sleep? Less caffeine, less alcohol. Those are disrupters of rhythms and things. Less Red Bull. Exercise. Take those bicycles from building to building on campus. Eat dinner early. Don't fill late in the day so your metabolisms change. And relax after work. So, that would be an e-book,
how they should prepare for it, how they should compete with us, how they should work with us, etc. Umm, in fact, my gut feel is I don't think in history, okay, any group of disrupters has ever had such a deep and principled interest in the industry that they are disrupting nor given it so much energy and assistance in trying to keep it going.
Because very often, especially when there's an issue that people have a lot of strong opinions and passions around, some of the interpersonal conflict Just to get very specific and tactical here, one of the things that leaders can do is to create a bias disrupter , a norm
He said, an entrepreneur is the source of creative destruction essential to the economy. That one I like a lot, because when you're an innovation entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur, you're a disrupter . And we are all disrupters .
how many problems, how many injuries just disappear. I think soy, soy milk, isolated soy is extremely risky as an endocrine disrupter . And if you look at reproductive specialists at different centers, there's one in Edinborough who's