Radical Brilliance: The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-Changing Ideas

305 Pages·2017·1.61 MB·English

by  Arjuna Ardagh

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY KUTE BLACKSON
PART ONE: THE MAP
CHAPTER ONE: My Life as a Misfit
CHAPTER TWO: The Magic Switch
CHAPTER THREE: Not All Thoughts are Created Equal
CHAPTER FOUR: The Brilliance Cycle
CHAPTER FIVE: Getting Stuck
CHAPTER SIX: The Small Print
CHAPTER SEVEN: Brilliant Practices
CHAPTER EIGHT: Your Brilliant Brain
PART TWO: THE TERRITORY
CHAPTER NINE: Brilliant Routine
CHAPTER TEN: Brilliant Sleep
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Brilliant Vacations
CHAPTER TWELVE: Brilliant Sex
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Discover Your Brilliant Diet
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Most Brilliant Supplements
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Supplements Daddy Will Not Allow
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Brilliance Beyond Belief
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: How to Sit
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Prayer, Devotion, Surrender
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Brilliant Friendships
CHAPTER TWENTY: Feed Your Brilliant Role Models
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Don’t Plan on a Bestseller
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Brilliant Mentoring and Coaching
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: This Isn’t About You
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: Wanna Get Out of Here?
Based on hundreds of interviews with some of the most brilliant people alive,
Arjuna Ardagh has created a tour-de-force: he has synthesized everything useful for
a life of purpose and contribution. This is a must read for people whose lives are
about making a difference. Arjuna is a radically brilliant writer and interviewer and
will give every reader access to their best self. A beautiful piece of work.
Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money; founder: Pachamama Alliance.
This is like having the genie in the magic lamp for brilliance on demand! You’ll
finally understand where your best ideas come from and how to create them at
will... plus the right time to get them completed and even how to re-create yourself
over and over again. When you understand this cycle, you’ll never feel stuck again
wishing your brilliant idea would make a dent in the universe.
Yanik Silver, author of Evolved Enterprise; founder: Maverick1000.
The most essential quality for any powerful leader today is the capacity to innovate
and to think things that have never been thought before. This book is a thorough
and complete guidebook on how to do that.
Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO, Mobius Executive Leadership.
This is a great book for entrepreneurs and leaders to gain a fresh understanding of
where they are in their creative process. Radical Brilliance is not a traditional
business book, and is not afraid to unearth anything and everything that makes a
real difference to innovation. You may be shocked, you may be unnerved, but you
will certainly be transformed.
Robert Richman, author of The Culture Blueprint; founder of The X Pill; Cultural
Strategist at Zappos; Co-Creator of Zappos Insights.
Drawing upon the latest cutting-edge brain research and an extraordinarily wide
and diverse range of tools and practices, this is a masterpiece in mapping the terrain
of full human potential.
Ivan Misner, Phd, author of Networking Like a Pro; founder: BNI.
Perhaps this book should have been called “Your Brilliance,” because in an age of
distraction and mediocrity, this book is an instruction manual for standing out,
making a difference, and for brilliance itself. If it is your plan to live a compelling
life, this book is for you.
Eric Edmeades, author of The Hindsight Window; founder of WildFit.
This bold and generous book by Arjuna Ardagh provides everything we need to
This bold and generous book by Arjuna Ardagh provides everything we need to
reboot our innate brilliance and to make an original contribution.
Barnet Bain, author of The Book of Doing and Being; director of Milton’s Secret;
producer of What Dreams May Come.
A practical guide to awakening brilliance and radiating it into the world. I
personally know Arjuna and felt his wisdom in every page. A winner!
Dr. Joe Vitale, author of Zero Limits and The Miracle.
Arjuna Ardagh gives a beautiful and practical overview of how we can all tap into
our true potential to not only know ourselves better but make a real difference in
the world.
Dawa Tarchin Phillips, CEO of Empowerment Holdings; Founder of The
Mindful Leadership Tribe.
Radical Brilliance provides an ingenious map of how to live a fully engaged and
fulfilling life in modern times. It’s information is life transformative, provocative,
and eminently practical. I highly recommend it.
Jonathan Robinson, author of Communication Miracles for Couples, and Shortcuts
to Success.
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DEDICATION
To the indelible memory of
Leonard Cohen.
In respect, gratitude, and awe.
And to the grandchildren
Of my grandchildren:
We have done our best to pave the way.
OTHER BOOKS
BY ARJUNA ARDAGH
Relaxing into Clear Seeing (1997)
How About Now (1998)
The Last Laugh (2003)
The Translucent Revolution (2005)
Leap Before You Look (2007)
Let Yourself Go (2008)
Better than Sex (2013)
Conscious Men (2015) with John Gray
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
This book presents opinions about, and methods pertaining to, a wide variety of
topics related to lifestyle choices which are most likely to yield original ideas.
The author has interviewed and quoted a wide variety of writers and teachers about
these topics, and the information provided in this book is designed to provide
helpful information on what these interview subjects have reported to be most
useful.
Some of the ideas, suggestions and procedures could prove hazardous or illegal
without proper medical supervision. Nothing presented in this book is intended to
substitute for the services of a trained healthcare practitioner. This book is not
meant to be used, nor should it be used, to diagnose or treat any medical or
psychological condition. For diagnosis or treatment of any medical or psychological
problem, please consult your own physician. Please also consult with your
healthcare practitioner before engaging in any dietary change, drug, exercise regime,
or changes to your lifestyle or daily routine.
The author and publisher hereby disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects
resulting directly or indirectly from information contained in this book.
FOREWORD
BY KUTE BLACKSON
We live in interesting times, intense times. We’re experiencing an extreme political
climate, and our world faces innumerable challenges. I often recall the quote that is
attributed to Albert Einstein, “You cannot solve any problem using the same kind
of thinking that created it.” For our culture and the human race to really evolve, for
humanity to move forward, we can’t just keep doing the same stuff. We have to
innovate; we have to tap into a new paradigm. It does not work to move sideways:
that’s just more of the same kind of thinking. The solution is not to rearrange the
furniture of our life and then say, “Wow, I have moved the furniture, now
everything is different.” We can’t just keep reordering the world and life. Today,
there is an opportunity to genuinely tap into a new level of brilliance. How can we
do things in a fundamentally different way? How can we think in a fundamentally
different way? How can we innovate? How can we create new and different ways of
being in relationship with each other, new approaches to politics and economics,
new visions of an educational system that are not just looping new versions of what
has come before?
There are many, many books out today about peak potential and about self-
improvement. The majority of them come from a very intellectual perspective, from
a formulaic me-based place. They talk about brilliance from the standpoint of
accumulating more knowledge, knowledge that simply feeds the mind. We live in
an age of information overload. There are so many highly intelligent people in the
world today who sound brilliant, who communicate brilliantly, who give seemingly
brilliant speeches and talks and write seemingly brilliant books. But this is not the
same as truly embodied brilliance.
So when my friend Arjuna Ardagh asked me to write a foreword for his new book,
Radical Brilliance, I had take a moment to consider. “I think of you as brilliant,” he
told me. “To me, you are a perfect example of radical brilliance. You live it, and you
bring it out in others.”
First off, I don’t feel brilliant. Nor do I believe that brilliance belongs to me as a
person, as a separate personality. My experience tells me that the more we are able
to get ourselves out of the way and to let go, the more the brilliance that is the
intelligence inherent in life itself can come through us. This has always been the