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Dr. Jeff Karp

👤 Speaker
411 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd go in on weekends to meet with teachers, the ones that would be available all through high school, like, you know, whenever I could. I just, it was always like a, it was like I was trudging through, I don't even know what, but it was just slow, slow, slow progress and everything. And so I needed to find ways to become more efficient. And so I started to just focus my attention on efficiency.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And I was just so focused on becoming more efficient that over time, I started to become more efficient. I started to be able to do more. I started to be able to focus my attention At will, I started to be able to navigate the world in ways that I had never navigated before to be able to learn and to succeed in my classes. And I started to thrive.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And I was just so focused on becoming more efficient that over time, I started to become more efficient. I started to be able to do more. I started to be able to focus my attention At will, I started to be able to navigate the world in ways that I had never navigated before to be able to learn and to succeed in my classes. And I started to thrive.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And I was just so focused on becoming more efficient that over time, I started to become more efficient. I started to be able to do more. I started to be able to focus my attention At will, I started to be able to navigate the world in ways that I had never navigated before to be able to learn and to succeed in my classes. And I started to thrive.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And what happened was I got so addicted to the dopamine hits from my work because now I was just able to just do almost like two marathons worth of work in a day. And when COVID hit, everything came crashing down in my living room. I had realized that I was completely out of touch.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And what happened was I got so addicted to the dopamine hits from my work because now I was just able to just do almost like two marathons worth of work in a day. And when COVID hit, everything came crashing down in my living room. I had realized that I was completely out of touch.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

And what happened was I got so addicted to the dopamine hits from my work because now I was just able to just do almost like two marathons worth of work in a day. And when COVID hit, everything came crashing down in my living room. I had realized that I was completely out of touch.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going to birthday parties and I would be trying to network with other parents who were there versus focusing on the purpose of the birthday party, which was to connect with my children. And I would be at soccer practices and I would be trying to get my 10,000 steps. I'd be walking around the soccer field You sound pretty intense. Over and over and over again to get my 10,000 steps.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going to birthday parties and I would be trying to network with other parents who were there versus focusing on the purpose of the birthday party, which was to connect with my children. And I would be at soccer practices and I would be trying to get my 10,000 steps. I'd be walking around the soccer field You sound pretty intense. Over and over and over again to get my 10,000 steps.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going to birthday parties and I would be trying to network with other parents who were there versus focusing on the purpose of the birthday party, which was to connect with my children. And I would be at soccer practices and I would be trying to get my 10,000 steps. I'd be walking around the soccer field You sound pretty intense. Over and over and over again to get my 10,000 steps.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going for walks with my dogs and I would have Netflix on the phone and I'd watch an episode of Game of Thrones as I took them for a walk around the neighborhood. You're that guy? I was that guy. I was that guy. And it was all because I had been so focused on just that I was just so addicted to the dopamine that I was getting from my work because I became very efficient.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going for walks with my dogs and I would have Netflix on the phone and I'd watch an episode of Game of Thrones as I took them for a walk around the neighborhood. You're that guy? I was that guy. I was that guy. And it was all because I had been so focused on just that I was just so addicted to the dopamine that I was getting from my work because I became very efficient.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I'd be going for walks with my dogs and I would have Netflix on the phone and I'd watch an episode of Game of Thrones as I took them for a walk around the neighborhood. You're that guy? I was that guy. I was that guy. And it was all because I had been so focused on just that I was just so addicted to the dopamine that I was getting from my work because I became very efficient.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I was able to do way more than I had ever done before. But that was actually taking me off track. Got it. And COVID was this unintentional pause where everything came crashing down, literally in my living room. And I was like, okay, I need to change. And that's where I engaged Flip the Switch, which is a four-step process.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I was able to do way more than I had ever done before. But that was actually taking me off track. Got it. And COVID was this unintentional pause where everything came crashing down, literally in my living room. And I was like, okay, I need to change. And that's where I engaged Flip the Switch, which is a four-step process.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

I was able to do way more than I had ever done before. But that was actually taking me off track. Got it. And COVID was this unintentional pause where everything came crashing down, literally in my living room. And I was like, okay, I need to change. And that's where I engaged Flip the Switch, which is a four-step process.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

So the first step is to notice your inner desire for possibility. So it's this idea that in that moment, I knew that there was another way of living, another way of being. There was something I could do that I wasn't doing and I felt disconnected. So I really was in touch with other possibilities that I needed to discover.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

So the first step is to notice your inner desire for possibility. So it's this idea that in that moment, I knew that there was another way of living, another way of being. There was something I could do that I wasn't doing and I felt disconnected. So I really was in touch with other possibilities that I needed to discover.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

So the first step is to notice your inner desire for possibility. So it's this idea that in that moment, I knew that there was another way of living, another way of being. There was something I could do that I wasn't doing and I felt disconnected. So I really was in touch with other possibilities that I needed to discover.

The Mel Robbins Podcast
Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power: 6 Tools to Boost Focus, Confidence, and Creativity

The second step is to take stock of what's working and what's holding you back.