social innovation lab
"I AM LEGEND"
An Immersive Exploration of Human Potential
A course on transforming thinking by Russia's first Chief Philosophy Officer, strategic advisor to top business and political leaders, head of the Social Innovation Lab at Global University by Igor Rybakov, author and public philosopher Natella Speranskaya
Foundations of the Course:
  • Developments from the Stanford Life Design Lab
  • Thinking technologies developed at Google X—Google's idea research laboratory—and used today at SpaceX, Apple, Tesla, XPRIZE Foundation, Singularity University, and others
  • Igor Rybakov's Doctrine on Actuality and the secret practices of the Grand Academy Club
  • The author's personal experience working with leading figures in business, politics, and creative industries
  • Global research on polymathy and methods of unlocking human potential (Waqas Ahmed / DaVinci Network, Peter Burke, Frans Johansson, Robert Root-Bernstein, Peter Hollins, David Epstein, Angela J. Cotellessa)
"As Buckminster Fuller said: "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." I decided to create such a tool. This offline course is an immersive exploration of human potential. It was developed for those who want to:

  • Find a point of support in an era of turbulence and take control of their lives.
  • Gain an understanding of themselves and their place in a nonlinear and accelerating world.
  • Create projects that will impact the future of humanity.
I work with two types of people: those who simply arrive in the future, thinking they cannot change it, and those who create that future.

The first type is the Eventful Man, a person shaped by historical events. I can create a transformational experience for them, in which they take on the role of the architect of the future and author of their own life.

The second type is the Event-Making Man. This is a person who shapes events themselves and sets the rules of the game in an unpredictable future. I create experiences for them, through which they go so far beyond their capabilities that they begin to design the future beyond the boundaries of their own life. And this is the path of the Legend".
Natella Speranskaya, author of the course
Program
Module 1.
Between chaos and order.
Life design and worldview construction
  • Loss of a point of support: When the old script no longer inspires, and the new one is not yet written.
  • Models of thinking in an era of phase transition.
  • Interregnum: The state of liminality.
  • Building a worldview: The architecture of personality.
  • Practicum: Life Design. The event profile of personality.

Module 2.
Strategies of the first.
Thinking technologies in the era of turbulence
  • Mind traps: Exiting the dead-end of Linear Thinking.
  • Map of the modern world: Building a route amidst chaos. Key concepts of world order.
  • Thinking without boundaries: Moonshot Mindset — conceiving the impossible.
  • Practicum: Creating a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal).

Module 3.
Epic human.
Creating a metabiography
  • How to live several lives at once: Three levels of working with the future—"Who can I become?", "Who do I want to become?", "Who do I fear becoming?"
  • The Universal Human: From Aristotle and Leonardo da Vinci to Albert Einstein and Elon Musk — why the future belongs to polymaths.
  • Practicum: Scenario of a new life. The role potential of personality.
  • Cathedral Thinking: How to plan beyond one's lifetime. Long-term & Short-term Thinking.
  • Practicum: Expanding the planning horizon.
  • Personal Immortality Project: Creating a metabiography.
  • Practicum: Building the "Cathedral". Massive Transformative Purpose.

The course is intended for:

  • Leaders and executives
    striving for a new level of personal and professional development
  • Entrepreneurs and innovators
    wish to create projects of global significance
  • Representatives of creative professions
    seeking new sources of inspiration and self-realization
  • Everyone is ready to go beyond habitual thinking and become the Legend of their time
photo: Oksana Markova