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This week we talk to Tom Asacker
Tom Asacker, a popular speaker and acclaimed author, is recognized by Inc. Magazine, M.I.T., and Y.E.O. as a past member of their Birthing of Giants executive leadership program. He is a former General Electric executive, recipient of the George Land Innovator of the Year Award, and a former high-tech business owner. Asacker has been a strategic adviser to startups and Fortune-listed companies. He is the author of critically acclaimed books including his latest, I Am Keats.
In This Interview, Tom Asacker and I Discuss…
- His book, I am Keats: Escape Your Mind and Free Yourself
- John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- That once you have a story, that’s the end of any change
- How limiting a story is
- That we are spinning stories all of the time
- The difference between fact vs truth
- How attached we are to our perception of the world
- That technology promotes the myth that we are in control
- The truth that you can’t learn about life by merely reading about it, you can only truly learn about life by living it
- Our reasoning mind that differentiates us as animals
- That life is a journey of paradoxes and ambiguity
- The importance of being empathizing and being mindful throughout this journey
- The desire for meaning
- How everyone is looking for meaning externally in their lives
- How that won’t work because our culture is broken
- That it is a personal discovery journey to live life
- How we always have the opportunity to make other people’s lives better but we have to be awake in life to do so
- The importance of control and certainty in our lives
- How to differentiate the voices in our heads
- That the end result of anything that we’re seeking is a feeling
- Human nature is to be curious, compassionate and creative
- What would happen if characters in movies could control their scenes? The result would be crushingly boring movies. Can you see the correlation between this idea and life itself?
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