Below, Dr. Josh Turknett shares five key insights from his new book, The Genius and the Impostor: The Neuroscience of Unlocking Human Potential. Turknett is a neurologist and founder of the Institute for Performance Neurology, where he works at the intersection of neuroscience, learning, and human potential. He is also an award-winning musician and host of the Performance Neurology podcast. What’s the Big Idea? The brain you were born with contains the same learning engine as every genius who ever lived. But a dedicated neural system in your mind has spent years convincing you otherwise, narrating a fiction about what you can…
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Successful people love to share their stories—as they should. Their paths to conventional success involve overcoming challenges and persevering through hardships, reading like a modern-day hero’s journey. These epic stories are naturally intriguing to the masses, which explains the crowded market of books, news articles, and social media content about their successes. We hope that by learning their stories, we may find some untold insight into achieving success ourselves. The problem with successful people’s sharing their stories, and with them, advice on how to do the same, is that they may not be the most reliable narrators. People remember the…
We know a strong network is important, and good professional relationships are critical for career building. But all too often, it’s easy for us to network just with people like ourselves. In fact, surrounding yourself with people who are different is especially critical. You’ll benefit from all kinds of diversity in your network, from race or ethnicity to gender. But also think about diversity in terms of generation, neurodiversity, educational background, or profession. Ultimately, the biggest advantages arise from having access to people who think differently from you, based on their backgrounds and experiences. Here are three ways a diverse…
Wisconsin’s candidates for governor want to limit them, while Pennsylvania’s say they support a ban. A Michigan congressional candidate called them “un-American.” A Florida Senate candidate is selling merch opposing them.Across the country and up and down ballots, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras, the AI-powered nationwide network of automated cameras that record license plates and other characteristics of all passing vehicles, allowing law enforcement agencies to search and share that data. Although police say the cameras are an invaluable crime-fighting tool, some critics say their pervasiveness amounts to unconstitutional warrantless mass surveillance.The cameras…
Another blueberry product is being recalled due to concerns that it may be contaminated with E. coli. The latest product is believed to be linked to an ongoing outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been investigating since May. This time, the product was available at Walmart. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? Back in May, the CDC began investigating a multi-state outbreak of E. coli infections. The outbreak was believed to be linked to blueberries. In early July, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the public about a food recall associated with…
LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s chances of fielding former NFL players improved Thursday night when a Louisiana judge issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in a high-profile eligibility case.East Baton Rouge Parish Judge William Jorden issued his ruling the night before LSU was due to submit its 105-man roster to the Southeastern Conference, which last week announced heavy potential punishment for football and basketball teams that bring in ex-pros.The ruling clears the way for LSU to list some former NFL players on its roster. How many games they might be eligible to play remains to be seen as the matter…
The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring growth with a bang. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%. Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected, according to a poll by FactSet. Labor Department revisions also looked good, adding 55,000 to June and July payrolls. Employers created 21,000 jobs in July; the Labor Department had originally reported that they’d cut 23,000. Two months before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump welcomed the strong hiring report Friday. “Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except…
In the series of articles I’ve been writing for Fast Company devoted to what I believe corporate AI should be, I’ve been touching on a very provocative idea: Perhaps the biggest problem of corporate AI as we know it so far is not intelligence, but the level at which we are programming it. As we speak, frontier models, elastic cloud infrastructure, vector databases, managed APIs, and large amounts of computation are available to basically any serious company. As a substrate, this is extraordinarily powerful. However, in order to put AI systems into production, we still require engineers who hand-assemble fundamental…
We are just a few years removed from a time when AI was not yet ingrained in our office lives, but many workers already wish they could go back. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 2,500 knowledge workers surveyed by digital consulting group Adaptavist said they often feel “nostalgic” about how work was conducted before the widespread adoption of AI. One in three said AI has already led them to contemplate changing industries (including 46% of C-level executives), and more than a third (34%) said AI has led them to consider an early retirement. Surprisingly, preference for the pre-AI world was strongest…
The U.S. government is expanding its investigation into the rising price of beef to eight major grocery chains and big-box retailers. In July the average price for ground beef was $6.88 per pound, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. That number is up from $3.88 per pound in January 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In a post on X, the Department of Justice said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. had sent letters to Kroger, Publix, Walmart, Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold Delhaize USA, Costco, and Amazon, explaining: “Beef prices are a critical concern to…