New PN: Primal Intelligence
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You are Smarter Than You Knowby Angus Fletcher |
“Primal's four powers are stronger together: Imagination makes commonsense nimble; commonsense makes emotion effective; emotion makes intuition purposeful; intuition makes imagination perceptive. That combined strength lives inside all of us, waiting to be awakened."ANGUS FLETCHER |
FROM THE BOOK“At a clandestine site made from bronze rock and gunmetal beams, protected by satellite jammers and radar-guided Vulcan cannons, U.S. Special Operations mastered the Fletcher’s lab theory.
With the colonel’s guidance, they turned it into practical training. Then they ran the training on the Army’s most elite units, their names secret, their missions classified. The training worked. The Operators saw the future faster. They healed quicker from trauma. Faced with life-and-death situations, they chose wiser. In 2023, the Army awarded the Fletcher lab a medal for ‘groundbreaking research,’ formally recognizing the existence of Primal. This book tells the story of the training that Project Narrative and Army Special Ops created. The training is simple, not easy. It is not an optimization hack or a cheat code. It is a different way of using your brain. It will activate intuition, imagination, emotion, and commonsense, awakening the powers of van Gogh, Tesla, Angelou, Jobs, and all the rest. So that you can use the know-how you forgot you knew. Your lost nature. Your Primal Intelligence.” |
Brian's Notes
Primal Intelligence.
The title alone gets me leaning in and fired up.
Then we have the sub-title: You Are Smarter Than You Know.
Now I’m *really* ready to go! Then... We have the introduction in which Angus Fletcher walks us through the Top Secret (literally) training he did with THE most elite special forces operators in the U.S. Army to validate the practical efficacy of his ground-breaking approach to excellence.
This book is a fascinating look at that research and how we can tap into our hidden intelligence to transform our lives by answering the question posed on the inside cover:
“How are some people so much smarter than the rest of us? Where do visionary creatives and savvy decision-makers like Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, Maya Angelou, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Warren Buffett, and William Shakespeare get their extraordinary mental abilities?”
If that sounds like a good time, I think you’ll love the book as much as I did. It was one of my Top 5 favorites in my 101 books in 101 days reading-fest last year. (Get a copy here.)
Angus Fletcher is a professor of story science at Ohio State University’s Project Narrative. His research has been called “life-changing” by Brené Brown and “mind-blowing” by Malcolm Gladwell.
I was introduced to Angus by a mutual friend. Shortly thereafter I read this book. Within a few weeks, we met in person in Tampa at the retirement ceremony of my friend, 4-Star General Bryan P. Fenton—the former Commander of all US Special Operations Forces.
Note: That’s the same position Admiral William H. McRaven held before he wrote the FIVE books of his we’ve featured: Make Your Bed (which he published after his commencement address went viral), Sea Stories (his autobiography), The Hero Code, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, and Conquering Crisis.
The book is PACKED with Big Ideas on how to tap into our Primal Intelligence. I’m excited to share some of my favorites so let’s jump straight in!
The title alone gets me leaning in and fired up.
Then we have the sub-title: You Are Smarter Than You Know.
Now I’m *really* ready to go! Then... We have the introduction in which Angus Fletcher walks us through the Top Secret (literally) training he did with THE most elite special forces operators in the U.S. Army to validate the practical efficacy of his ground-breaking approach to excellence.
This book is a fascinating look at that research and how we can tap into our hidden intelligence to transform our lives by answering the question posed on the inside cover:
“How are some people so much smarter than the rest of us? Where do visionary creatives and savvy decision-makers like Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, Maya Angelou, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Warren Buffett, and William Shakespeare get their extraordinary mental abilities?”
If that sounds like a good time, I think you’ll love the book as much as I did. It was one of my Top 5 favorites in my 101 books in 101 days reading-fest last year. (Get a copy here.)
Angus Fletcher is a professor of story science at Ohio State University’s Project Narrative. His research has been called “life-changing” by Brené Brown and “mind-blowing” by Malcolm Gladwell.
I was introduced to Angus by a mutual friend. Shortly thereafter I read this book. Within a few weeks, we met in person in Tampa at the retirement ceremony of my friend, 4-Star General Bryan P. Fenton—the former Commander of all US Special Operations Forces.
Note: That’s the same position Admiral William H. McRaven held before he wrote the FIVE books of his we’ve featured: Make Your Bed (which he published after his commencement address went viral), Sea Stories (his autobiography), The Hero Code, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, and Conquering Crisis.
The book is PACKED with Big Ideas on how to tap into our Primal Intelligence. I’m excited to share some of my favorites so let’s jump straight in!
Big Ideas
01: THE FOUR POWERS
02: INTUITION
03: IMAGINATION
04: EMOTION
05: COMMONSENSE
“My theory is that the modern world has incorrectly defined intelligence."ANGUS FLETCHER |
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