How To Handle Tectonic Change with Eric Pilon-Bignell Best-selling Author
The Most Important Thing
The way we really grow and transcend, become better, people, companies, etc. We have to chase that discomfort, that’s how we get to the next level.
About Guest
Eric Pilon-Bignell is a pragmatic futurist and the best-selling author of “Surfing Rogue Waves”, a book that discusses the constant anomaly of change and how humanity is pushed to navigate through this exponential pace of disruption.
The author’s love for the outdoors shines through as he draws parallels between life and surfing, presenting his insights using waves as metaphors of hardships we face in our daily lives.
About “Surfing Rogue Waves”
“Surfing Rogue Waves” presented the idea of Disruption as a means of moving forward in the future rather than being overtaken by the “Waves”. In this book, Eric shares how we could shape our life and the future of humanity with our decisions amidst change.
The world continues to evolve around us, as humanity endures the constant blow of global issues. However, with great changes comes new chances. What should we do with these opportunities? Do we engage with them and create ripples of change? In this book, Eric enlightened readers with his wisdom on how to adapt to these disruptions and take them as a stepping stone to surf through the waves of the 21st century.
Episode Overview
In this episode, Eric and I discuss the future and the fear it brings for most humans. We touch on certain emerging world conflicts and how we can engage with change at such massive scale. We exchanged views of the world, happiness, and how we think it will progress after the changes that the pandemic brought.
My Favorite Quotes:
“We can't put a pin on any one of these because these waves are coming all over, but that kind of equal excitement and fear. I feel that’s where I’m at, I’m so excited about this, there's gonna be so many incredible things.”
“My ego was “how do I always do more, how do I increase my peak performance?”
“We have this inability, unfortunately, as a human race of drawing a line between fixing people and upgrading people”
“How you engage with certain things like getting wrecked, it’s one thing if you do that and all you think about is the negatives “I almost drowned.” Or you think you almost want that high, you almost want to get wrecked again because what if you don’t.”
“I'm getting my ass kicked on small waves. Right. But, but I'm in the zone. Like I'm locked in, I'm paddling, I'm focused, everything changes. I'm like, I'm intense and it's this really cool mix which we have in life.”
“Happiness is how hard it is for you to achieve what you want to get to.”
“The more stress you build, the less interpersonal you are and the less you sleep and the less you're arrested and the less you can get. So it's like this negative spiral it sends you down into. And for me, it was really understanding that, that I could allow myself to go back and say, okay, this stuff makes sense.”
Episode Breakdown:
04:03 - Writing the book during Covid-19 Lockdown
05:37 - Eric looking back through his journey, life aspirations, and changes
07:35 - Perspective of the future, curiosity and what it could bring
14:30 - “A lot of our old fears are almost like, I guess the buzz word, like fake fears now.” The definition of fear in a modern age, violence, famine, etc
20:30 - The inequality of wealth and its history in relation to happiness
27:40 - South Korea, plastic surgery and the scale of happiness
32:25 - The Fourth Industrial Revolution and technological transformation, to do or to die
44:38 - What is happiness to Eric?
Episode Links
Eric Pilon Bignell’s Info
References made in the episode
Surfing Rogue Waves by Eric Pilon Bignell
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Future-Proofing workspace and digital transformation
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