This penetrating comparative analysis of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and other superachievers revealed an astonishing truth. Incredibly, they all deployed the same success strategy – a strategy which Savanting arms everyone to duplicate. In actuality, these illustrious careers demonstrate a new way of operating. Savanting: Outperforming your Potential unveils an unprecedented, “biology-based” protocol for achieving one’s most sought-after career and life goals. Imagine what you could accomplish with biological maximization. This breakthrough protocol was developed over the decades of this author’s career maximization work. Her real-life experimentation was informed by her degree in bio-anthropology and her own innate predisposition for this work. Famous superachievers are not the only ones to use this remarkable achievement-enhancing methodology. Surprisingly, it is also behind the unexplained superskills of savants. It enables them to “outperform their potential” to achieve incredible feats of genius from deficient brains theoretically incapable of them. Persuasive arguments suggest that this biology-driven protocol makes savant-like functionality accessible to everyone. According to this award-winning author, we merely need to exploit the links between internal and external biology which have co-evolved to increase human adaptivity and potential. This is how you too may “outperform your assumed potential.” Consequently, this new internal-external protocol empowers creativity from noncreatives; breakthroughs from the nonbrilliant; prophetic vision from nonvisionaries; and accelerated execution from the execution-challenged. In Savanting’s final chapters, this just-proved success formula is then projected out to show how man’s most desired goals can be byproducts of applying it – · the extreme self-knowledge of enlightenment; · self-actualization and self-transcendence; · meaningful contribution; · self-love and happiness; · wholeness and the self-repair necessary to achieve it; · expanded and even cosmic consciousness; and · a reliable process for identifying one’s true biology-defined purpose and attaining one’s greatest intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. These byproducts suggest we have access to an elevated level of human potential simply by changing how we operate. These byproducts therefore have profound implications for how future generations will function. Not only will there be a fundamental revision to our method of operation but to the expansions of consciousness from which we’ll achieve. The path of human evolution becomes obvious. Savanting is an opportunity for you to discover what you are truly capable of achieving and experiencing. This avant-garde protocol is an opportunity for you to facilitate our inevitable evolution. Join the movement to operate as the future human now.

This collection of articles is a game-changer for career and life strategy, goal achievement, self-actualization, and peak performance. The unprecedented BioMaxed methodologies help you to determine your personal formula for a biologically maximized career and life. The result is “paid play,” “paid growth,” and “paid learning” as a way of life. Discipline and the need to push yourself are replaced by the pull of addictive drives and emotional highs. You can accomplish so much more than you ever thought yourself capable by never having to work again. Biomaxing is about more than clichés such as “follow your heart” or “do what you love” or “play to your strengths.” When you discover your formula for maximization, there are extraordinary biological consequences. Your capabilities are extended by nature’s machinery for maximizing all systems for survival. Your capabilities are extended by those of the surrounding biological infrastructure with which we have co-evolved to function. The whole will exceed the sum of the parts. You shift into overdrive. You outperform your known potential. You discover that true human potential relies on an internal-external partnership which you are about to learn to master. New methods of information access become available. New functionality and evolved states emerge. Growth accelerates. Peak experience becomes your new norm. Breakthroughs, epiphanies, and coincidences multiply to catapult you to your goals. One breakthrough can bypass the hundreds of steps required to achieve a goal. One breakthrough may be life-changing, career-changing, and even world-changing. Some of the BioMaxed articles advance the author’s methods of capitalizing on this external maximizing machinery introduced in her best-selling primer, Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience (2001). The rest apply the author’s methods of exploiting this bio-infrastructure to career-related matters relevant to anyone who has significant goals to achieve. As such, BioMaxed is a must-read for all aspiring worldbuilders and anyone who is driven to leave their most impactful footprint on the world. It’s a revolutionary route to your greatest intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. In fact, it’s a route to a heartfelt goal you may neither have realized you wanted nor was possible: sustained, self-sufficient, self-love through continuous creative self-expression of your essence.

Questioning everything we know about the childhood predictors of adult greatness, a cognitive psychologist, who was told as a child that he wasn't smart enough to graduate from high school, explores the latest research to uncover the truth about human potential.

Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.

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Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predictive minds, forever trying to guess the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. In this up-to-the-minute treatment, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores new ways of thinking about perception, action, and the embodied mind.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.