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Evan LaPointe

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“Ability than people without. And the same thing with imagination and logic that if you push those boundaries in your mind further, your ability increases almost disproportionately to how much you've pushed. So these layers just kind of stack on. And I think that's kind of, you know, it's approachable. It's simple. It's like we can all understand, is my safety reward or purpose system active right now? What is my level of focus? What level of connection with reality, reason, and imagination do I have right now? And then there's your output as a human or as a team. All these things are like levers we can pull, which is super fun.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those are the conditions for purpose. And that can be really big. Like curing cancer, I understand the impact in the people. That's huge. But it can also be like I'm writing an email. I understand the impact of this email and the people affected by it. You can feel purpose at this tiny little grain of sand level of your life, not just at the whole, you know, beach and shoreline level. And we teach people that that's super important. So that's kind of the foundational layer. And then on top of that, there are a few layers that have to do with your focus because the brain can dramatically shift focus from like open-mindedness to deep, deep focus. And then there's kind of the final layer of ability, which is less like science-y, you know, less neuroscience and more just practical that your ability is regulated by how much reality you know. Like, do you have the context for the decision or you just know you're supposed to make the decision? People with context have higher.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That if somebody says, you know, you'll get something if you do this, which is the opposite of safety if you don't do this, something bad will happen, then yeah, your brain gets into this kind of pursuit desire state, which seems great and can be great in a lot of cases, but also can be pretty narrow. So when you hear people say, that's not my job, that's actually the reward system speaking, saying I get rewarded for the things in this list and this thing that you're talking about is not on my reward list. And I therefore am not interested in it. Like I have an easier time pushing away from it because the reward system of the brain is more transactional in a conceptual way. And then you get to this vague and ridiculous sounding purpose system. But until you realize what purpose is, and we've all felt it, if you understand the impact of the thing that you're doing and you understand and care about the people that are impacted by your actions,”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Want to have everybody learn about your safety system, your reward system, and your purpose system. And out of those three, two of them sound really real and one of them sounds like fantasy to most people. So yeah, the safety system is pretty obvious to most people when we're scared, afraid, uncertain. We have doubt. We're resentful, angry, apathetic, et cetera. This system of our brain is like trying to restore our standing in the universe. Like, I need to get out of this stress, out of this danger. out of this anger, et cetera. And you have an objective that that part of your brain, that system sets and you go chase that objective. Like, I want to get safe. So if you're in a meeting, you know, practical everyday situation and you're exposed to a statement that makes you feel unsafe, your objective now actually isn't to contribute to the meeting productively anymore. Like your brain's objective is to get back to safety. And the same thing of rewards.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kind of the first thing is that the brain has these departments and systems in it, and it also has pathways. And the pathways thing is really important to understand because there's a likelihood that thought will go down certain pathways in each of our brains. Some of that has to do with personality, which kind of sort of predisposes us to have a higher anxiety or a lower anxiety response or a higher creativity or lower creativity response. But you can also be more intentional with these pathways. And that's a big component of self-awareness is to kind of know what are my preferences. And then am I actually letting those preferences take over in the situation or am I being more intentional steering down the pathways to activate these best regions and systems of the brain? And the simplest way to keep track of the systems is there's three. There's three really big ones. There probably are more than three that you can learn about, but the ones we”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And if you think about sending your thoughts to the right department on the campus or just different departments, you're going to get super different responses back from your brain. And where we're stuck largely is most people rely on their history department way too much. And that's because the brain is actually built to conserve energy. And that's the lowest energy form of generating an answer to a question that the brain can pull off. But if you instead send things to the kind of the more experimental, open-minded science department, the more creative art department, the humanities department of your compassion, et cetera, you get totally different answers. And certainly if you ever build products as a company or offer services, those departments are going to give you dramatically better answers than the reference material just in your history department.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brain is like a big galaxy. I mean, there's a national geographic quote that we throw up in all of our programs that when we train teams, for example, that says the brain is more complex than any known structure in the universe. And it's easy to read a sentence like that and just run straight away from the problem. And I think that's important for people to not run away from this problem, but more run toward it. And it's our job to kind of translate the complexity of the brain into really simple, straightforward systems that you can remember. The three or four main systems to stack on top of each other like layers start with the fact that the brain has systems, like different, I kind of think of it like the brain is like a college campus that has different departments in it. And your brain has a science department responsible for open-minded experimentation. It has an art department in it responsible for creative kind of boundless thinking. It has a history department designed for looking stuff up that you already know.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's critical to ask what kind of experience am I? Not how good am I at my job? How much do I know? How critical am I to this process? But am I a miserable experience? And if the answer is yes, don't worry too much about the other pieces yet. You got to fix that first.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Almost like you're playing like Elden Ring or some video game. The starting point is to choose your character. Hey, I'm the devil's advocate approach or I'm the break it and see if it still stands after I hit it really hard with a sledgehammer kind of guy. Your personality kind of has a natural fit”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brain is like a college campus that has different departments in it. Most people rely on their history department way too much. If you instead send things to the kind of the more experimental open-minded science department, the more creative art department, you get dramatically better answers.”
2024-08-11 · Lenny's Podcast · Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source