In Search of Lost Mojo

12/12/2022

ALL NEW EPISODE!!!
Check out Episode #13 of In Search of Lost Mojo with author and race car driver, Russ Rosenberg: https://lnkd.in/dg5dqWSP

One of my earliest memories as a child was playing with my Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars in the dirt under the homemade basketball hoop that my Dad built at the end of the driveway. I always gravitated towards the race cars. Even then, I could tell that they were different—sleek, fast, and exotic.

As I got older, I started to follow auto racing the way you did in those days—watching the annual Indy 500, checking out hotrod magazines, or stumbling onto a movie like Bullitt or Cannonball Run on one of the three channels that you might be able to get if the antenna covered in tin foil was pointed in the right direction.

As I got older, my passion for racing switched to the two-wheels-with-pedals variety. My love for fast cars and the lure of the track never went away but the demands of work, family, just life pushed out the thought of taking car racing more seriously. I had to feed my racing jones with the occasional track day with my beat-up Mini Cooper S. At least the racing stripe on the hood made it look like it could go fast!

Our guest on this episode of In Search of Lost Mojo, Russ Rosenberg, took it to the next level, making the later-in-life leap from wannabe to legit race car driver.

In 2006, the nearly fifty-year-old Rosenberg, a successful entrepreneur, had an epiphany. For years, he had been searching for a hobby that would hold his interest. After trying guitar lessons, shooting sports and fly fishing, Russ tapped into his lifelong passion for cool cars. A short time later, he bought a used Mazda Miata, signed up for autocross school, and eventually began road and vintage car racing.

His journey and advice for making a similar leap is chronicled in his book Racing Under the Illusion of Grandeur: A Guide for Men and Women over Forty Who Want to Drive like Mario.

In this comprehensive guide, Russ relies on his experiences as an amateur racer to provide a roadmap for beginners that offers time-tested wisdom on how to start in the sport, avoid costly mistakes, and secure a logical path to success. He includes valuable insight into how to choose the right car and the true cost of racing as well as entertaining racing stories for the over-forty crowd.

In this episode, we talk about how Russ scratched his racing itch, how to get started and how to get better faster without breaking the bank, and how racing cars has changed his life.

Please enjoy this inspiring and informative episode of In Search of Lost Mojo with Russ Rosenberg.

After the show’s over, check the show notes and all of our other interviews at timzak.com/podcast.

11/01/2022

ALL NEW EPISODE!!!
Check out Episode #12 of In Search of Lost Mojo with world's leading authority of how to turn humans into superheros (literally), Dr. Paul Zehr: https://timzak.com/islm-12

How many of us, at one time or another, have dreamed about having a super power—to fly like a bird or possess X-ray vision or even have the slings and arrows of ordinary life harmlessly bounce off of us?

Or admire those among us who seem to have superhuman powers like the basketball player who leaps in ways that seem to defy gravity, or gymnasts that contort their bodies into impossible positions, or moms of newborns who survive on seemingly no sleep?

The question that lingers is this: Are superpowers only available to fictional comic book characters or the ultra-rare human with natural abilities that appear granted by the divine? Or are they becoming increasingly available to all of us through almost unimaginable breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology?

Our guest on today’s episode of In Search of Lost Mojo, Dr. Paul Zehr, is the man to ask.

He is professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He’s well-known in the scientific community for his work on the neural control of human locomotion—how the arms and legs interact during walking—and how the brain’s ability to adapt is associated with rehabilitation in stroke victims.

But he’s best known to the general public as the author of a trilogy of popular science books, all using superheroes as the basis for investigations into the future of human performance.

His 2008 book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero, is essentially a guide for understanding how the human body works and responds to exercise.

In 2011, he published Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine, exploring what it would mean to the human body, and the nervous system in particular, to use an integrated exoskeleton like the Iron Man suit of armor.

His latest book, Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering and Biotechnology will produce a Superhuman, demonstrates the medical and scientific possibilities of recreating an entirely new human by radically altering their biology.

Paul is a regular speaker at conference and comic conventions and has written extensively on exercise, science, and superheroes in publications such as Scientific American, Men’s Health, and Popular Mechanics. He’s practiced and taught martial arts for over 25 years, and is a double black belt martial arts master. It’s his study of martial arts that he attributes to getting him interested in science in the first place.

In this episode, we talk about the genesis of his superhero trilogy, the promise and perils of the science and technology that can enhance human performance, and why everyone can always get a little closer to being superhuman.

Please enjoy this super episode of In Search of Lost Mojo with Dr. Paul Zehr. After the show’s over, check the show notes and all of our other interviews at timzak.com/podcast.

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17/09/2021

ALL NEW EPISODE!!!
Check out Episode #11 of In Search of Lost Mojo with the late blooming sage of Silicon Valley, Rich Karlgaard!

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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” A generation ago, that question acted as a prompt for young children to let their imaginations run wild and, with encouragement, a way to convey the notion to them that anything was possible. Fireman? Astronaut? Centerfielder for the Yankees? Sure, why not?

Today, that question is used more like a divining rod to get kids funneled into the educational assembly line. There, a carefully curated path of advanced coursework, extracurricular activities, tutoring, and the discipline of a monk might get you into a “good” college which might allow you to get a good job which might ensure that you don’t end up as societal roadkill. No wonder, as Stanford professor Carol Dweck has remarked, that the students she sees are “brittle, exhausted, and broken.”

But what about those who don’t figure out their supreme destiny right away? Is there any hope for the masses who are still trying to figure it out?

Our guest on today’s episode of In Search of Lost Mojo, makes the case that many of us should unload our existential angst about SAT scores, ignore conventional wisdom about early success, and find our own supreme destiny in our own time and in our own way.

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes Magazine and author of Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement.

By his own admission, Rich was a late bloomer. He was an unremarkable student at Stanford who was admitted, in part, because his 1000-yard run time in track was mistaken for the longer 1000 meters. After graduation, he kicked around a variety of jobs including dishwasher, security guard, and technical writer for a nonprofit research institute.

His long hours of reading Sports Illustrated in the Stanford library paid off when, in 1989, he and a partner created Upside Magazine, modeled after that magazine’s unique style and designed to be perhaps the first publication “for Silicon Valley about Silicon Valley”. That effort caught the eye of Steve Forbes who brought him into his eponymous magazine to start the magazine Forbes ASAP and write a column entitled Digital Rules. Late Bloomers is the third in a trilogy of Rich’s best-selling books that also include Life 2.0 and The Soft Edge.

In this episode, we talk about how we got so obsessed with early achievement, what science tells us about why so many of us bloom later in life, myths that need be busted about “old brains,” how Corporate America should think differently about their HR policies, and much, much more.

Please enjoy this wide-ranging episode of In Search of Lost Mojo with a late blooming sage of Silicon Valley, Rich Karlgaard.

If you check out the episode, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could go on iTunes and write a brief review with a rating. You could even let other people who might be interested in the show know that it exists via social media, email, carrier pigeon, or any other way that you communicate with your fellow humans.

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Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show!

11/05/2021

"The most progressive companies, the industry leaders of the future, will 'hack' a new code of work—one based on optimizing human performance and, in the process, create a workplace that is at once more productive, engaging, and rewarding."

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