No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp 224: Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Change Your Life With Tiny Experiments
Aug 25, 2025
Join neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff as she shares her insights on redefining success through curiosity and experimentation. After a life-threatening health scare, she emphasizes adopting an experimental mindset over rigid goals. Explore the importance of understanding procrastination as a communication tool, overcoming perfectionism, and embracing mistakes as growth opportunities. Anne-Laure introduces 'tiny experiments,' a practical way to align personal values with goals, fostering a journey of self-improvement and discovery.
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Health Shock Reorders Priorities
- Anne-Laure discovered her priorities were skewed when she checked her calendar in a doctor’s office after finding a dangerous blood clot in her arm.
- That moment seeded her decision to leave Google and rethink what she actually wanted from life.
Curiosity Requires Courage
- Our brains prefer certainty because it felt safer for ancestral survival, which makes planning seductive today.
- Choosing curiosity over certainty requires explicit courage because it accepts unpredictability while promising growth.
From Binary Goals To Learning Experiments
- Linear goals define success as a binary outcome and encourage an illusion of control.
- Experiments shift success to learning: any completed experiment that generates knowledge counts as success.
