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

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! Youll 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, youll 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 reboot our innate brilliance and to make an original contribution.

Barnet Bain , author of The Book of Doing and Being ; director of Miltons 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. Its information is life transformative, provocative, and eminently practical. I highly recommend it.

Jonathan Robinson, author of Communication Miracles for Couples, and Shortcuts to Success .

FOREWORD
By Kute Blackson

We live in interesting times, intense times. Were 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 cant 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: thats 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 cant 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.