Self Spark Introduction - Teaching the World to Lifehack
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An introduction to Self Spark, a social enterprise that teaches people how to lifehack to build healthier, happier, and more productive lives. Lifehacks are simple, effective shortcuts for improving your life.
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Self Spark Introduction - Teaching the World to Lifehack
- 1. We teach people how to lifehack Definition: simple, effective “shortcuts” for improving your life
- 2. Lifestyle change is overwhelming 1 It’s hard to know what to do to change 2 3 It’s hard to It’s hard to start making sustain the effort to change the changes
- 3. 70 events 6 cities 650 people
- 5. Day 1 – Learning Day 2 – Doing 22 speakers 20 min TED-style talks 100% practically focused No talks, all action Test tools and techniques Supportive community
- 9. Corporate Light Customized content Measurable outcomes Pay for performance Open platform Easy to run Not for profit
- 10. 500 cities in 5 years 1200 cities in 4 years 600 cities in 9 years 120 cities in 7 years 500 cities in 7 years 280 cities in 5 years (projected)
- 11. James Norris Chief Executive Officer Dr. Orin Davis Chief Science Officer LJ Jolley Spark Weekend Director MacLain Christie Spark Weekend Director
- 12. Less talk, more action 48 hours to spark healthy habits for life
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Hi I’m James, and I’m with Self Spark. We teach people how to lifehack. Lifehacks are simple, effective “shortcuts” for improving your life. For example, doing High Intensity Interval Training or using an app like Sleep Cycle or a device like Nike Plus or building a “One Minute Meditation” practice. There are thousands of lifehacks; we help you find the ones that work for you.
- The problem is huge. We don’t exercise enough, manage our stress or take care of ourselves. That’s because it’s overwhelming. impractically hard. It’s hard to know what exactly to do, it’s hard to start doing what you need to, and it’s especially hard to sustain the effort to create lasting change. We tackle all three with our event-based platform.
- In our private beta, we ran 70 events in 6 cities for 650 people. The goal was to learn. You could call each event an experiment. We practice open science, where we test an event and publish its outcome online, whether it’s a success or failure. This transparency means anyone can literally double check our math. This keeps us honest and allows us to crowdsource better techniques for changing lives from everyone in the world.
- This has led us to a powerful solution to the lifestyle change problem. During a Spark Weekend we teach you what you need to know, help you get started, and help you continue on the path to change afterward. A Spark Weekend is a 2-day, science-based, paid event that’s themed around specific areas like nutrition or productivity or relationships, and customized to different demographics and public or corporate audiences.
- Day 1 of a Spark Weekend is about learning. 22 speakers present TED-style talks that teach you how to make a specific lifestyle change. Day 2 is about doing. You come back with your laptop and planner and our mentors coach you to implement what you learned the day before. You’ll be setting up gym memberships, automating your investments for retirement, and so on. It’s up to you. It’s all about “getting stuff done”.
- Our speakers are local experts that we vet for scientific rigor and curate to create a fast-paced, practical, comprehensive program tackling the theme of the Spark Weekend. They draw the audience in.
- At a Spark Weekend you’ll also experiment with the latest technology for change. For example, a fork that reminds you slow down while you eat, a nutritional drink that aims to replace food altogether, a headset that helps you do neurofeedback at home, and a whole host of other tools. More: an app that monitors your sleep quality, a device that tells you when you’re stressing out, a wristband that motivates you to exercise.
- The Spark Weekend isn’t actually a weekend. It’s a month long, or longer. Lifestyle change takes time, so we stick with you. If in 30 days you achieve the goals you set during the Weekend, you get paid back $30. More if you opt to put more money on the line. If you succeed, we pay you back what you put in. If you don’t, your money is donated to a charity of your choice. You can even set these goals with a group of people you trust and tie the payout to the entire group’s success, so you’re all incentived to support each other.This helps significantly with motivating change.
- The Spark Weekend can be customized for corporate clients to focus on specific topics like productivity, stress management, and emotional Intelligence. We offer them on a pay for performance basis—if we get results, we get paid. If we don’t, we don’t. We also franchise the format to community leaders around the world to run them on a not for profit basis. They generally take less than a day to plan and often can be run at no cost.
- For the first time in history, event platforms can scale rapidly. A company like Startup Weekend would not have worked 10 years ago. They relied on social media and other communication tools to grow so quickly. We are doing the same.
- I’m James, and I’ve helped to build 7 companies, 5 of which are still going. Orin has a PhD in positive psychology, a new field focused on human flourishing. And LJ and MacLain are the extremely talented folks who are putting on our Seattle and Portland Spark Weekends.
- Join us and spark the change within you. First you change yourself, then you change the world.