UPWIRE®: Unlocking Your True Potential
This podcast explores the neuroscience of Hacking Human Nature to find better ways to make breakthroughs and unlock your true potential in life and work.
UPWIRE® is presented by Robert Cooper, Ph.D., a neuroscientist, leadership advisor, New York Times bestselling author (with over 4 million books sold), and founder of the acclaimed 12 Leaders® program.
UPWIRE® will feature stories and wisdom from Dr. Cooper, along with his latest thoughts and ideas, interviews, and newest research findings. Cooper provides compelling insights drawn from his work with elite performers and top leaders using neuroscience to get the most out of their brains, their time, and their performance.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2017
UPWIRE #22 - The Brain’s Bridge™
An essential ingredient for accelerated growth into your most amazing future is a clear and compelling connection between HERE and the best possible THERE.
I call this The Brain’s Bridge™ and if you…
UPWIRE #155: 2-Minute Friday: One Moment of Memory
In this podcast, Roberts shares the latest neuroscience research on how a single powerful moment of memory can change our performance state and what happens next.
UPWIRE #62 - An Ounce of Positive Emotion Beats a Ton of Nitpicking
By nature, the human brain is a master nitpicker and poor farmer for new breakthroughs. Exceptional leaders and teams understand this, and UPWIRE their progress by applying precise doses of positive…
UPWIRE #77 - An Ounce of Positive Emotion Beats a Pound of Repetition
By nature, the brain lives on a treadmill of repetition. Stuck in the hard-wired past, the brain is quick to judge and run, and slow to innovate and contribute.
In this podcast, Robert shows us how t…
UPWIRE #28 - Emphasize the Rise
The brain is built to RISE, but wired to ROUTINE. It is ever-vigilant in noticing and criticizing anything wrong, while missing almost every positive change.
In this podcast, Robert shares some insi…
UPWIRE #154 - 2-Minute Friday: PRE
Annual Gallup surveys show that nearly two-thirds of all leaders and three-forths of all employees are disengaged at work. There are countless books and training programs aimed at increasing engagem…
UPWIRE #153 - 2 Minute Friday: How Long Does It Take?
In this 2-Minute Friday podcast, Robert discusses how long it takes to impact or change a life. Learn how a simple "pause" can lead to the greatest difference.
UPWIRE #152 - The Eyes Only See What the Mind is Prepared to Comprehend
What is your mind prepared to comprehend?
From jazz pianist Art Tatum's unique performance abilities to renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow's daily "choice", Robert Cooper shares insights on why our…
UPWIRE #151 - Brain Performance Code
How old is your brain's basic programming? Is this the right "performance code" for achieving our goals in today's hectic and modern world?
In this podcast, Robert Cooper discusses neuroplasticity an…
UPWIRE #79 - A Split-Second Turn
At any given moment, we can suddenly face adversity, an unexpected challenge, or feel the drain of a negative look or comment or feeling.
In that one split-second, the brain loses control. Your atten…
UPWIRE #63 - Stop Doing, Start Doing
Do you know why you do what you do? Why you react a certain way? Do you have an active choice in everything you do?
In this episode, Robert provides insight on how we can UPWIRE our stubborn hard-wi…
UPWIRE #56 - Attention, Distractions and the Human Brain
Today's blend of noise, technology and distraction-on-demand creates a perfect playground for the brain to indulge in what it loves to do: dabble, coast, seek entertainment, wander and hide.
In this …
UPWIRE #51 - Good and Great are the Enemies of Possible
Aiming to be "good" often leads to mediocrity. Becoming "great" can potentially trap us forever in a state of perceived success. Only the ongoing drive to surpass our very best can allow us to reach…
UPWIRE #34 - Capacity, Not Routine
By nature, the human brain is drawn toward mediocre routines and old habits, preventing us from reaching our true potential
In this podcast, Robert explores how we can reach deeper and unlock our va…
UPWIRE #32 - Accelerated Growth is a Choice
Left to its own devices, the brain is hard-wired to steadily and stubbornly die on the vine instead of grow in the climb. Overcoming the brain's tendency to "play small" is possible, but we must make…