How to Design the Life You Want with Innovation Pioneer and Olympic Medalist John Coyle

John Coyle was an Olympic Athlete for the US Speedskating Team from 1986-1998, winning a Silver Medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

He was also a 3 time Bronze Medalist in the World Speed Skating Championships and a National Team Athlete for the USA Cycling Team, racing in the World Cycling Championships where he was a team mate of Lance Armstrong.

John has a BS in Engineering and Product Design from Stanford d.school where he was mentored by David Kelley the "father of design thinking."

He went on to earn his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a focus on Organizational Behavior, Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Today he’s a NBC analyst, author (The Art of Really Living and Design For Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths), TEDx speaker, Professor of Innovation, and is the CEO and Founder of Speaking Design Thinking.

In this episode we not only deconstruct his unique athletic path that lead him to the Olympics, but also what it taught him that the best way to unlock human potential and drive growth is to design lives, careers, and teams maximizing strengths rather than fixing weaknesses and that the best way to innovate your life and business so you can take on greater challenges and grow is to increase personal resilience. We look at when it makes sense to quit doing something versus doing the proverbial sticking-with-it.

John is the personification of how useful and successful this approach can be, and details the neuroscience behind it.

We also go deep into the perception and misperception of the experience of time and its nonlinearity and John’s perspectives on “chronoception.”

This is conversation not to be missed in terms of designing your life and developing resilience through focusing on your strengths. John is indeed fulling living his life, and this episode will help you gain more from yours.

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“Living a Life in Full” is the conversation you always wanted to have with that person who gave an amazing TED talk, or the author of one your favorite books, or that inspirational Olympian you always wanted to know more about.

This show is for the intellectually curious. You want to not just know more about the interesting and the innovative, but also what makes them tick, and maybe even what makes them laugh. It’s graduate-level conversations with those making a difference in the world and the lives of others.

This show brings you new ideas and approaches so you can live a life in full.

The show is equal parts information and inspiration, but without the aphorisms and Pablum. We cover a wide range of topics in an engaging way—from Burning Man to The Renaissance Weekend, from the United Nations to top universities, Nobel Laureates to astronauts—we have an amazing Rolodex.

Interviewees are a who’s who of high performance athletes, bestselling authors, high-caliber leaders, world changing humanitarians, innovative researchers, amazing start-up founders, clever life-hackers, paradigm busting thought-leaders and global innovators.

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