LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action BY Jeff Karp

Selected as a must-read by the curators of the Next Big Idea Book Club, including Daniel Pink, Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, and Adam Grant.

“In this illuminating guide, Jeff Karp illustrates how we can break free from the routines that limit our thinking. LIT is an essential toolkit for converting intentions into actions that matter.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Don’t we all want to tap our innermost talents of creativity, the full power of our good brains?... LIT is a blueprint for a richer, deeper life.” —Diana Nyad

“Jeff Karp’s much-needed book provides a spark and helps us light ourselves up from within—while lighting up the world around us, bringing joy and creativity to all aspects of our lives.” —Arianna Huffington

In LIT, Jeff Karp, Ph.D., a Harvard biomedical engineering professor and biotech innovator, presents radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intention. In today’s age of convenience and information overload, we often find ourselves distracted, pressured, and seeking instant gratification rather than harnessing our potential for meaningful and impactful lives. Karp, diagnosed with learning differences at a young age, developed ways to achieve hyper-awareness and maximize decisions based on curiosity, passion, creativity, and a connection to nature.

LIT teaches us to:

Turn inward and connect with what is truly important to us
Turn outward to act on that, connecting with others and different ways of knowing
Question assumptions—break out of habitual thinking and patterns to discover what truly serves us best
Explore, experiment, and discover fresh approaches to old challenges
Dr. Karp also shares insights from some of the world’s most accomplished people, including Nobel Prize winners, an Indigenous wellness center founder, a visionary photographer, a social justice activist, a five-time US memory champion, an Olympic medalist, and a compassionate neurosurgeon.

Using Dr. Karp’s principles, anyone can redirect their lives with energy, focus, creativity, motivation, intention, and impact. Learning to be lit is the ultimate renewable energy, accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere.