Isaiah Hankel

Internationally recognized speaker and author.

Isaiah Hankel is an internationally recognized speaker and author who helps individuals, teams and organizations develop a more entrepreneurial mindset to accelerate their business success.

Isaiah’s unique background allows him to offer a scientific approach and tangible methodology to the pursuit of purpose, focus and other entrepreneurial values that every individual and even the largest company can apply.

Isaiah is a Doctor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and has worked extensively as a Fortune 500 consultant in the biotechnology industry and with some of the world’s leading corporations, including Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche and Genentech. He has also presented at many of the world’s premier academic institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, The Pasteur Institute and The Curie Institute.

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Black Hole Focus

by Isaiah Hankel

Black holes. Just contemplating the sheer, fierce power of them is awe-inspiring, eh? Isaiah Hankel tells us that although physicists used to think that everything got destroyed in a black hole, now they believe that it’s less about destruction and more about *transformation.* And shines some light on the power of focusing on our purpose with black hole intensity. Big Ideas we explore include sheep vs. strategists, figuring out your ikigai (= why you get up in the morning), the fascinating endurance of rats with hope, the first two steps in greatness and moving from vision to decision.

Quotes by Isaiah Hankel

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Studies from Dominican University and Virginia Tech show that people who write down their goals are 33% more likely to achieve them. These same studies show that people who write down their goals make nine times more money than people who don’t. Yet, 80% of Americans don’t have goals.

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In order to fulfill your new purpose in life, you must dramatically increase your expectations. Once you decide on a goal, you need to decide to achieve it. This means you must increase your expectations. You have to expect to achieve your goal.

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I was a sheep. I had spent the last ten years running away from sticks and chasing carrots. Instead of finding my own purpose and working to fulfill it, I had been working to fulfill other people’s purposes. Everything turned around in that moment.

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