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Isaiah Hankel

Isaiah Hankel

Internationally recognized speaker and author.

Isaiah Hankel is an internationally recognized speaker and author who helps individuals, teams and organizations develop a more entrepreneurial mindset to accelerate their business success.

Isaiah’s unique background allows him to offer a scientific approach and tangible methodology to the pursuit of purpose, focus and other entrepreneurial values that every individual and even the largest company can apply.

Isaiah is a Doctor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and has worked extensively as a Fortune 500 consultant in the biotechnology industry and with some of the world’s leading corporations, including Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche and Genentech. He has also presented at many of the world’s premier academic institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, The Pasteur Institute and The Curie Institute.

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Black Hole Focus

How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

by Isaiah Hankel

Black holes. Just contemplating the sheer, fierce power of them is awe-inspiring, eh? Isaiah Hankel tells us that although physicists used to think that everything got destroyed in a black hole, now they believe that it’s less about destruction and more about *transformation.* And shines some light on the power of focusing on our purpose with black hole intensity. Big Ideas we explore include sheep vs. strategists, figuring out your ikigai (= why you get up in the morning), the fascinating endurance of rats with hope, the first two steps in greatness and moving from vision to decision.

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Conquering Cancer & Leadership & Purpose

Modern Classic Work

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Swimming Rats
#87

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How to Increase Your Endurance by 240x (!!!)

Although I’m not a huge fan of some of the drawbacks of animal testing, this study is astonishing and worth knowing about. Get this: In the 1950s, a Harvard-trained researcher based out of Johns Hopkins named Curt Richter ran some fascinating experiments. He wanted to see how long rats could swim in tw...

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Positive Psychology & Willpower

Hope hopeless Inspiration persistence Power Work

Moonshots with Kennedy
#1157

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What Goal Is Organizing and Measuring YOUR Energy and Skills?

In our last +1, we planted some trees with John F. Kennedy. Recall that he told us: “I am reminded of the story of the great French Marshal Lyautey, who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for a hundred years. Th...

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Leadership & Purpose

big-picture courage Inspiration leadership purpose soul Spirit Vision wildly-important-goals

Tim Ferriss on Unusually Large Goals
#1159

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And the Collective Insecurity of the World

In our last +1, we spent some time with Isaiah Hankel in his Black Hole of Focus and talked about “How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives.” We quickly reflected on a two-step process to create that powerful purpose. He told us: “You can achieve greatness. N...

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Goals & Purpose

Actualization big-picture courage goals purpose soul Spirit wildly-important-goals

You Can Achieve Greatness
#1158

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Here’s a Two-Step Process

In our last couple +1s, we did some gardening with Kennedy, fixed our roofs together and we got ready to land on the moon. Now… To find that moonshot wisdom, I did a quick search of the 596 PhilosophersNotes I have on my Mac. “Kennedy moon.” First result: The Note on Black Hole Focus—...

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Confidence & Purpose

Actualization big-picture confidence purpose self-awareness soul Spirit wildly-important-goals

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