How To Solve The World’s Biggest Problems With Peter Diamandis

Episode Summary

How to solve the world’s biggest problems and build a company that impacts a billion people, your future wealth roadmap, and more, with Genius Network Member, Peter Diamandis.

Peter Diamandis is the founder and chairman of the XPrize Foundation, co-founder of Human Longevity INC, co-founder of Singularity University, co-founder of Planetary Resources, co-founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation, as well as a New York Times Bestselling Author of Abundance – The Future is Better than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Peter in this episode:

  • Why Mindset Is Everything: How to solve the world’s biggest problems with an abundant mindset
  •  The 3 billion person force that is going to drive massive innovation around the world (How to ride this coming economic wave of wealth)
  • Why were are working less, increasing our standard of living, accessing more and more technological capability for far cheaper than ever before and living in the most peaceful time in history
  • Peter’s Laws: Creeds of the persistent and passionate mind (Use these mind boosters to overcome your problems and create more success)
  • Insights into gamification and microwork that can totally transform the way you do business
  • A Case Study in Crowdfunding: How to tap into the power of the crowd (Lessons discovered raising $10,266,846 from 68,929 people)
  • Peter shares the mission of the XPrize Foundation and XPRIZE competitions that are changing the world for the better

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Show Notes

  • Marketing is a powerful set of tools to change the world. 3:30
  • We are living in an extraordinary time. 6:00
  • Abundance is about mindset. 6:10
  • The engineers that built Curiosity could not have built it without the right mindset. 6:20
  • If you have the wrong mindset, you’re going to give up. 6:35
  • “We are living in a world where the media is a drug pusher and negative news is the drug.” -Peter Diamandis 7:15
  • The world is getting better at an extraordinary rate. 7:30
  • The forces that created the positive effects are accelerating. 8:00
  • The brain is structured to pay more attention to negative news than positive news which leads to pessimism. 8:40
  • Technology is a resource liberating mechanism. Scarcity is contextual. 9:50
  • How you think affects the decisions you make. 11:50
  • Mindset changes everything. 12:00
  • We are bathed in abundant energy, we just need the ability to convert it. 14:15
  • Apps that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars 20 years ago are free today. 16:05
  • The single thing we can do to bring down the population of a country is to make it healthier and better educated. 17:10
  • 3 billion new internet users are coming online by 2020. 17:35
  • “The long tail of the global economy is about to come online.” -Peter Diamandis 18:25
  • Anyone can start solving. 19:15
  • Gamification is an emerging trend that will change the world. 19:30
  • Crowdfunding is liberating capital that allows us to make our dreams come true. 21:50
  • Microwork is changing the nature of work and knowledge. 24:05
  • Exponential thinking is about harnessing the power and force of the crowd. 27:50
  • “If anything goes wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. Peter’s Law” -Peter Diamandis 28:40
  • “The best way to predict the future is to invent it yourself.” -Peter Diamandis 30:20
  • The X-Prize is about defining the world’s biggest problems and then ask the crowd to solve them. 31:00
  • 45% of the time that you go to the doctor you get the wrong diagnosis. Enter the Qualcomm TriQuarter X-Prize. 33:50
  • Any market failure is an opportunity for an X-Prize to exist. 35:00
  • The innovation and adventure trip. 36:30
  • “Anything is possible if you focus the passionate human mind.” -Peter Diamandis 38:20

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