The 5 Essentials: Using Your Inborn Resources to Create a Fulfilling Life
Bob Deutsch Ph.D.
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1594631220
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Raise the bar to become the best version of you—and have fun doing it
As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, both personally and professionally. We choose not to pursue our greatest ambitions because we feel we are incapable of reaching them. But he has also found that we are each born with the fundamental abilities to live the full, creative, dynamic life we dream about.
Filled with great stories and interviews with inspiring people, including Wynton Marsalis, Richard Feynman, and Anna Quindlen, The 5 Essentials opens the door to a way of being more alive than you have ever been. In this compelling book, Deutsch shows us how to access and use our five inner resources -- Curiosity, Openness, Sensuality, Paradox, and Self-Story -- to open our lives to unimagined possibilities. The 5 Essentials will appeal to readers of The Element and The Tools.
made elsewhere in this chapter—that openness allows for the creation of things that you never could have created if you’d stayed closed. Our lives are so much like the stories being invented on improv stages all over the world. If we share ourselves and remain open to other ways that our stories might go, we are likely to create something exponentially richer and more rewarding than if we’d just stayed in our own heads. For Morris, if he’d simply spun out his breakup tale, he might have gotten a
endless hours deconstructing food and seeking new ways to present an ingredient not because they want to turn it into something it is not, but because they want to turn it into the ultimate version of itself. “Ferran is an emperor,” reads a recent piece about him, “a quixotic emperor of illogical, counterintuitive cuisine. You can see that he is for real, he’s seriously dedicated to taking these food transformations and reinventions as far as they will go. He’s the Deconstructor of Food. He
when she was on the roller derby circuit: “I was in roller derby from age fifty-two to age fifty-four—a very, very late bloomer—and kicked out for being too old. Derby changed my life, made an athlete of me, made me proud of my big ass and my giant legs for what they could do—hip-check you into next week—not for how they looked in a short skirt. I still looked like a hausfrau but, oh baby, what I could do with it. That was several years ago. Occasionally, I run into skaters I knew back then
changes in their leadership focus and skills, which I call the seven seismic shifts. They must learn to move from specialist to generalist, analyst to integrator, tactician to strategist, bricklayer to architect, problem solver to agenda setter, warrior to diplomat, and supporting cast member to lead role. What caught my eye about this is that many of the transitions Watkins identifies involve the use of skills the potential leader already has but has not used for this purpose before. For
most vital but also to identifying what you need to maintain your emotional energy. “It’s just like vitamins. You don’t always need a supplement to give you every vitamin every day. You only need to supplement the vitamins that are missing from your diet. In the same way, you only need to add whatever ingredients are missing to raise your emotional energy. I list twenty-five ingredients of emotional energy in my book The Emotional Energy Factor, and I show you how to identify which ones are