Brad Jacobs

I've mashed them all together and made my own personal meditation that works for me.

And one of those approaches to meditation are thought experiments.

Thought experiments actually is not a phrase I made up.

It comes from Albert Einstein, actually.

Albert Einstein had a German word that I can't pronounce.

It was phonetically something like Gedanken experiment, which translates to thought experiment.

In fact, using a thought experiment...

is how Einstein discovered relativity because he pictured himself, he imagined himself, did a thought experiment of riding a beam of light and pictured what that would be.

And he saw the relationship between time and space and all became clear to him.

So thought experiments are picturing things intentionally in your mind

And I try to do things that are numinous, meaning I try to do things that are novel, that are different, that are inspiring, that take me out of my comfort zone, that give me a perspective that's not normal, so to speak.

Because if I just have normal perceptions, I'm going to achieve normal results.

And I want to achieve super normal results.

I want to lead teams that create huge amount of alpha.

In order to do that, I've got to have people think differently.

I have to have people think out of the box, thinking in a different way than ordinary thinking.

So thought experiments for me help me do that.

So sometimes I think in terms of different perspectives on space, either very big, bigger than the universe, an infinite number of universes, a multiverse.

Sometimes I shrink my awareness down to tiny spaces, like I'm inside an atom.

Even on the quark level, there's elementary particles.