MPI Philosophy

Is fear real or are we in fear of fear itself after all? Many people suffer from a fear of something that is preventing them from being what they want to be and constraining their potential impact. They have a fear of aiming high, fear of failure, a fear of being themselves and many others.  […]

If you want to aim higher and achieve the higher goals you probably need to become a better version of yourself. Some aspects of life will simply have to change. Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a Stanford health psychologist talks and author of book “The WillPower Instinct”. She says (4.10) that a willpower challenge is anything

Your mindset has a big impact on your impact. There are some people that live life with the belief that they have a lot of influence over it and there are other people that live life in a way where they believe they have very little influence over it.  We all know that achieving goals

Brené Brown, Ph.D., is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. After many years of research she thinks that vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.  Brown says (4.7) that Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity

Daniel Siegel, MD, is Clinical Professor of psychiatry at UCLA, Co-Director of Mindful Awareness Research Center, Executive Director of Mindsight Institute, author, and recipient of numerous awards and honorary fellowships. Siegel says (4.6) that when kids develop capacity for reflection they are better able to mention their feelings and then to be able to manage

In a book where the subject is maximum positive impact, it’s not surprising that there will be some discussion about motivation. In order to maximize your impact, we need to motivate ourselves but we also often need to motivate other people. What is motivation? Ed Deci is a professor of psychology at University of Rochester

Improving ourselves means having the ability to recognize what is happening, interpreted and make decisions based on our interpretation. This involves an increased level of self-awareness. Mindfulness is a form of self-awareness and mindfulness exercises can help to expand self-awareness. Catherine Kerr, a Ph.D. uses Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and other tools to investigate brain mechanisms underlying

It appears that humans have an optimism bias. Perhaps it can help you to achieve your maximum “optimistic” impact? Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist faculty member of the Department of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences at University College London.  She says (4.4) that 80% of us have what is known as an “optimism bias”. The optimism

There are many references in this book to the fact that living an MPI life means getting as close to nature as possible and being as aligned with nature as possible. This makes sense from an anecdotal experience point of view, however, there is also research that tells us how our immediate environment impacts us.

Maximizing your impact involves self-improvement and self-improvement should include improving our brains. It wasn’t that long ago that scientists thought that the brain stopped developing after the first few years of life. In fact, this is what I was told when I was growing up. I spent the first 30 years of my life believing