Olivia Cabane's guest appearances

Olivia Cabane

Curious Minds at Work

David Smith

Chris Guillebeau

David Epstein

Laura Vanderkam

Cal Newport

Chris Bailey

Nir Eyal

Donna Hicks

Adam Grant

Judson Brewer

Seth Godin

Kristin Neff

Sean Young

Jocelyn Glei

James Clear

OwlTail

Judah Pollack

Breakthroughs can take our work to new and exciting places, yet they rarely happen as often as we’d like. Are there ways to prompt these kinds of moments, so we can create them more often?Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack tell us how in their book, The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking. Olivia is the former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford StartX and bestselling author of The Charisma Myth. She has worked with companies like, Google, MGM, and Deloitte, and she has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Yale. Judah Pollack is a former faculty member at Stanford StartX and a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He has worked with organizations like Airbnb, IDEO, and the U.S. Army Special Forces.In this interview we discuss: 	How breakthrough thinking requires two systems in the brain: the Executive Network (the net) and the Default Network (the butterfly) 	How we need off-task time in order for the Default Network to engage and create breakthroughs 	The 4 types of breakthroughs: Eureka, Metaphor, Intuitive and Paradigm 	How Eureka Breakthroughs are sudden insights that are fully formed, when everything seems to fall into place 	That we are predisposed to certain kinds of breakthroughs and how it helps to honor our natural style 	That no one style of breakthrough is any better than another 	How Metaphorical breakthroughs help us see topics in new ways 	How Intuitive breakthroughs seem like just the beginning and less easy to trust, requiring us to have faith in the process 	How Steve Jobs had an intuitive breakthrough that the iPhone needed to be made of glass 	That our brains our physical objects that need to build new neurotransmitter receptors in order to construct new knowledge 	How our practice with exploring new experiences in the brain affects our ability to make breakthroughs 	How surfing the net for new things or watching new movies can help with building the brain plasticity that helps to make breakthroughs 	How curiosity enlivens brain plasticity 	How fear negativity affects the Default Network and works against us having breakthroughs 	Why our best ideas may come to us in the shower 	How our inhibitions can cause us to feel like imposters or make us overly critical, either of which can hinder breakthrough thinking 	How the placebo effect can be used to our advantage 	Ways we can practice failure in order to normalize our feelings about it 	Three supertools that can help us achieve breakthroughs 	How the journey toward topic mastery create preconditions for breakthroughs 	How implementing these practices can affect us down to the gene level 	How to find the balance between our fast-paced, hyper-focused work world and the slower, more diffused approach needed for breakthrough thinkingLinks to Episode TopicsOlivia Fox CabaneJudah PollackThe Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough ThinkingThe Charisma MythStanford StartXUniversity of California BerkeleyThe Executive Mode Network of the brainThe Default Mode Network of the brainThe Arab SpringThe Revolutions of 1848Occupy Wall StreetSteve JobsThink WrongNeuroplasticityImpostor SyndromeInner CriticPlacebo EffectMeditationIf you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!

Breakthroughs can take our work to new and exciting places, yet they rarely happen as often as we’d like. Are there ways to prompt these kinds of moments, so we can create them more often? Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack tell us how in their book, The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking. Olivia is the former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford StartX and bestselling author of The Charisma Myth. She has worked with companies like, Google, MGM, and Deloitte, and she has lectured at Harvard, MIT, and Yale. Judah Pollack is a former faculty member at Stanford StartX and a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He has worked with organizations like Airbnb, IDEO, and the U.S. Army Special Forces. In this interview we discuss: 	How breakthrough thinking requires two systems in the brain: the Executive Network (the net) and the Default Network (the butterfly) 	How we need off-task time in order for the Default Network to engage and create breakthroughs 	The 4 types of breakthroughs: Eureka, Metaphor, Intuitive and Paradigm 	How Eureka Breakthroughs are sudden insights that are fully formed, when everything seems to fall into place 	That we are predisposed to certain kinds of breakthroughs and how it helps to honor our natural style 	That no one style of breakthrough is any better than another 	How Metaphorical breakthroughs help us see topics in new ways 	How Intuitive breakthroughs seem like just the beginning and less easy to trust, requiring us to have faith in the process 	How Steve Jobs had an intuitive breakthrough that the iPhone needed to be made of glass 	That our brains our physical objects that need to build new neurotransmitter receptors in order to construct new knowledge 	How our practice with exploring new experiences in the brain affects our ability to make breakthroughs 	How surfing the net for new things or watching new movies can help with building the brain plasticity that helps to make breakthroughs 	How curiosity enlivens brain plasticity 	How fear negativity affects the Default Network and works against us having breakthroughs 	Why our best ideas may come to us in the shower 	How our inhibitions can cause us to feel like imposters or make us overly critical, either of which can hinder breakthrough thinking 	How the placebo effect can be used to our advantage 	Ways we can practice failure in order to normalize our feelings about it 	Three supertools that can help us achieve breakthroughs 	How the journey toward topic mastery create preconditions for breakthroughs 	How implementing these practices can affect us down to the gene level 	How to find the balance between our fast-paced, hyper-focused work world and the slower, more diffused approach needed for breakthrough thinking Links to Episode Topics Olivia Fox Cabane Judah Pollack The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking The Charisma Myth Stanford StartX University of California Berkeley The Executive Mode Network of the brain The Default Mode Network of the brain The Arab Spring The Revolutions of 1848 Occupy Wall Street Steve Jobs Think Wrong Neuroplasticity Impostor Syndrome Inner Critic Placebo Effect Meditation If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening!

CM 096: Olivia Cabane and Judah Pollack on Breakthrough Thinking