How will technology make us more mindful?

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest here is Suman Sadhu. He's an angel investor and entrepreneur. He's the current Chief revenue officer at Plato Designs, and he's invested in 25 companies, including companies in artificial intelligence, augmentation of intelligence, lifespan augmentation of humans. It was originally in biochemistry, and I love the depth and the range of all those things. So I'm really interested in getting into your wisdom on the relationship between stress and creativity. So welcome to the show.

Yeah, thanks, Stuart, for having me. Cool.

And so let's get right into it. What is your definition of stress?

So I think stress is so. I think inside of our bodies, we have, you know, a response to our environment. And, you know, that that could be under extreme, you know, extreme temperature, it could be under extreme physiological circumstances, it could be under extreme psychological circumstances. But kind of the root of stress is, you know, there's. There's the external stimulus, and then there's also sort of the internal response. And the actual internal response that we have against stress is something that can be harnessed for a number of activities. So if you take, for example, starvation is an example of a type of stress that actually activates a particular cellular pathway in the body, which actually leads us to organize our relationship to our metabolism in a certain way. And so we can actually. Stress can be something that can be a topical thing for people to interact with, but stress can also be relating to our biological responses as well.