Innovation is inspiration with intention :: Ion Valaskakis

What is Innovation?

Ion Valaskakis, President at President, Portfolio IV Media and Consulting talks on importance of these factors and their impact on our ability to innovate, including how circumstantial inspiration and the default mode network can affect our creative process.

More about our guest:

Ion Valis is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives by helping them anticipate the future, accelerate their performance, and reinvent themselves when necessary. He enables organizations to "see around the corner" through two proprietary frameworks that he has developed - the FuturePROOF Scorecard and Playbook. His book 'The Magnificent Mistake' talks on how to learn from your mistakes, he has also given a TEDx Talk on the changing nature of leadership in the 21st century, and hosted a bi-weekly podcast on how to apply the management consultant’s toolkit to everyday problems. Ion plans to launch an online course called "Reinvention Boot Camp" that will empower thousands of people with the tools, skillset, and mindset to reinvent themselves regularly.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

2:32 - What is Innovation?

4:35 - Breaking down Inspiration and Intention

6:48 - Circumstantial inspiration: humanistic

9:40 - Lag-time of elements

10:33 - Default mode network

14:52 - Revenge Procrastination

17:06 - Gradual erosion vs falling off a cliff analogy

17:46 - Moore's law

21:50 - Stagnating human innovation

24:02 - Surveillance capitalism

28:03 - Dopamine Capitalism

33:04 - Mind and body connection

35:37 - Best way to be creative

42:27 - Advice for the public

52:30 - The next revolution
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