Ant Moorhouse is a champion problem solver who is furiously re-tooling his social enterprise, EarthTech, to discover and fund the enterprises that are working on solutions to beat corona virus.
He cut his teeth in the military, before discovering entrepreneurialism and venture capital investing in the US.
He’s now back in Australia where, his team are adapting to the crisis, but their mission remains the same; “to find the best, youth-led ideas, that can help humanity solve social and environmental issues, linked to the UN Global Goals.”
On this episode…
Ant explained the lessons in crisis management that he learned in the military, and then applied to the current corona-virus crisis.
He talked about the spark that inspired him to ditch the “profit-at-any-cost” mentality, to instead, focus of the capital need of social enterprise in regions of the world where the need is the greatest, and where innovation and creativity is a matter of survival.
Ant launched EarthTech in 2019, and it was a far-greater success than they’d anticipated. But just as they were planning on a bigger and better second round. The world changed.
So they pivoted, and they’re now directing their competition model and their AI systems to find the best business ideas, and helping to bring them to reality through funding and expertise.
My key takeaway this week…
Resilience and adaptability ae at the core of the entrepreneurial mindset, as well as the impact and social enterprise mindset. And this same resilience is vital amid a pandemic, but also in the fight against climate change.
Good Future’s Good Books
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
By Peter Diamandis
It’s all about that singularity idea, about how to positively impact a billion people in ten years.
How Silicon Valley, The Navy Seals, And Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing The Way We Live And Work
By: Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
It’s about how to tap into Flow, and how to tap into different ways of coming up with ideas. Outside of the frontal cortex. It’s how to get things right 100% of the time. I’m a massive believer in intuition and thinking outside the box, to make more creative decisions.
The precursor by the same authors is The Rise of Superman. It’s really clever, it’s like an elite athlete, paired with a Sci fi writer. It comes back to Chick ne nee hi. He was Polish, and he was in the concentration camps in WWII, and he saw that some people were happy and active, but others weren’t. And so he created this framework, and it’s what we now call flow. It’s basically optimal human experience.
We’ve got to be pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone by 4%, to achieve a flow state. Which is something we’re interested in, and its’ not so far out of our comfort zone that’s it unattainable, but we’re not board.
Basically those three books from the bulk of what goes on in my head.
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