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Have you crashed into your potential? My name is Scott B Harris and I am the author of the book, CRASGING INTO POTENTIAL: Living with my injured brain. At the ripe old age of 23, I came face to face with adversity, when I crashed my KTM 450 dirtbike into a mate. This left me with lasting injuries including severe brain damage, paralysis, and the use of only one arm. This was the start of my new life. Since that fateful day, I have been clawing my way back into a society that accepts me for who I am and not for who I WAS (and by "Society", I mean myself. I had to learn how to accept MYSELF in my new life with all my imperfections). Come with me and learn how to be resilient in the face of adversity and crash into your own potential.
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Send us a text We have come to the end of the line friends. EP.38 is where we stitch it all up, and boy has it been a ride. I have enjoyed making this podcast so much and I so happy you have too. In the episode, I make my way back to Australia for a quick surgery on my broken face and I fly back to the USA, landing in LA. I was in LA for a few days before meeting up with Daniel and Kieran on their return from Mexico. Once we met up, we were all set to drive over to Arizona to see what spring ...
Send us a text We are edging closer my friends. In episode 37 in a heartbeat, because of a stupid decision, I had to pack my bags and return to Australia. This was that point in my life where I discovered that I obviously have more than 9 lives. I during our road trip in Banff, I was involved in a trip-ending accident that could have quite easily been life-ending knowing my background. German snowboarder – 1 Me – 0 That’s right, I face-planted into someone on Lake Louise and in a split ...
Send us a text In EP.34 - Chapter 34, I make my way from Greece to Berlin, Germany, with a sailing trip around Croatia on the way. This was the turning point of my whole recovery as my mindset and perception of my own abilities did a backflip. With a brain injury, sometimes, the simplest of tasks become challenging and now I was on my way to Germany to get a working holiday visa... ON MY OWN. This was going to be a challenge! Day 1: I was chilled out and all relaxed because it was going to be...
Send us a text Episode 33 is about the connection I made with Jasmine. After meeting Jas, I traveled to the western end of the long island of Crete to a little town called Chania (Pronounced Hania). The most magnificent place I‘ve been to in the world. The sun and the situation made this an absolute dream to be in. After we parted ways I left for the south for a few days before we met back up on another island called Naxos before we traveled to Paros to finish our trip. 3 weeks in total...
Send us a text In this episode, we go through the shortest chapter of the book (so far). Chapter 18 is literally one event, for one night… that’s it! I fly from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Athens, Greece and come up against some trouble. This was the first encounter I have with the European authorities that had me kicked off a bus in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in a country that is going through a lot of financial turmoil. I sat back and looked at my surrounding...
Send us a text EP.30 is the reading of chapter 17 of my book, Crashing Into Potential: Living with my injured brain. The chapter is called, FREEDOM AT LAST. After getting off a tour around Scandinavia and Russia, I stuck around in Berlin for a week and just hung out. This week is exactly what I imagined traveling around the world would be like. This was the moment I realised that I didn't like to be confined and restricted by a tour and that I liked the freedom while traveling to do what I wa...
Send us a text In EP.28 it’s time to move from the land of winter fun and onto the next leg of my trip around the world. Europe here I come!! I soon realised that I was still living with a brain injury and all the difficulties I have are still there, but now I’m going to have to take these on alone. From the moment I fly into Turkey, I realised I should have done more research into my trip when I nearly had a meltdown regarding visas. Not knowing the ins and outs of the travel game yet, I fou...
Send us a text In EP.27, it’s a wrap. The season is ending and it’s time to move on. Before we do, there was still a bunch of fun to have in the spring. This was Spring skiing at its finest and I was enjoying every second of it. Yes, my social anxiety was playing tricks on me all the time, but I really had nothing to worry about. With the help of ASSP, I was able to beat some demons that were trying to hunt me down. To top off the season, I got invited on a road trip that really put the...
Send us a text In EP.26 I take you on another little side adventure to my main adventure, which turned out to be an unforgettable adventure. Because of reasons I don’t completely understand myself, I needed to get out of Canada by plane and find another location to set up camp. Well, this camp was set up in Japan and boy am I glad I chose that place! Being winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Japan’s north island was covered in snow. If you know anything about anything to do with anything in th...
Send us a text In EP.25 we learn what happens when things don’t go right… we call mum. Mum was my safety net that I so desperately needed to break away from, but when things start to heat up, so do I. This little side trip from Canada to Hawaii didn’t get off to a great start but as you’ll learn, I made it in the end. In this chapter, my relationship with my father came to a boiling point. It was hard to see his son do what he was doing and not be worried, after all, it was only a few years p...
Send us a text In EP.24 I take you through the process of getting myself over to another country on the other side of the world. This might be a standard drill for a seasoned traveler, but with a fresh set of eyes to this world, a naïve outlook and a brain injury, I was shaking in my boots. Rightly so, I had a whole backpack full of fears! This was it. The beginning of the biggest adventure of my life. I was about to embark on an adventure that would change the course of my life. The first st...
Send us a text In this week’s episode I share with the audience an interesting concept I’ve discovered, which is called The Pygmalion Effect. The research was first conducted in the 1960s and has been proven to lift the standards of the people that we are teaching, or coaching or instructing to do a certain thing. Robert Rosenthal led a team in studying the effects that a teacher has on their disciples. To start they gave 2 groups of students, 2 groups of rats, and had them teach the ra...
Send us a text This week is all about where we place the control in our lives. The location of this control is called Locus of Control, and we all fall somewhere between an Internal Locus of Control and an External Locus of Control. People with an Internal Locus of Control feel that they are in control of their own destiny and people with an External Locus of Control feel they aren’t. Neither one of these are right or wrong, they’re just personality traits that are really good to be awa...
Send us a text In this episode I am sharing with you some of first the things that normally get sacrificed when we’re trying to make it to the top. Unfortunately, in life, making it to the top sometimes comes at a cost and it’s up to us to decide what it is that we are willing to put to the sidelines to make it up there. #1 – The first thing that can be cut is our sleep. This is a bit misleading, I know, but I am not talking about getting less sleep. I’m just talking about honing in on our be...
Send us a text The scientific term for being ‘in the zone’ is called flow so in this week’s episode we’re talking about getting into this state of flow and what it’s going to mean for our achievement levels. We perform at the ultimate level when we are in this state.To get into this state, we need to be doing something or trying to achieve something that is equal part challenging to equal part doable. Anxiety: We need anxiety in our lives in order to be prepared for the challenges that w...
Send us a text This week we’re talking about the things I’ve learned about building my self-esteem. Tip #1: Love yourself Tip #2: Focus on what you can change and except all that you can’t Tip #3: Stop comparing yourself to others Tip #4: Hone your craft For full show description click HERE Let’s connect Facebook - @TheInjuredBrain Instagram - @TheInjuredBrain Twitter - @TheInjuedBrain LinkedIn - @TheInjuredBrain Email – scott@scottbharris.com.au
Send us a text This week we’re exploring purpose and what it means to have purpose in our lives. Purpose is the fuel that keeps the engine running through life and as soon as we give it up, we no longer have the energy to keep moving forward. In this episode, I do my best to explain to you, why it is that you need to find a purpose in your own life, and I give you some tips on things that I’ve learnt about finding my purpose. My purpose in life is to inspire people to achieve more. ...
Send us a text In this episode we’re talking about gratitude and why you need to be grateful for everything you have in your life Whatever goes up my come down. Simply put, every bad situation in this world has a good side to it, we might not be able to see it just yet.The gratitude that you feel has so many great benefits. In this podcast, learn how I can manage to be grateful through all the ups and down of my life.
Send us a text In this episode I share with you my morning routine and what it is that gets me out of bed at 5:00am every morning. The biggest advantage of getting out of bed early is that it gives me more time to achieve my goals. I don’t think I could stand it if I had to take up my ‘wind down’ time by doing something other than… winding down. ‘Wind down’ time is the time I relax and enjoy. Sometimes it’s just me time, used to evaluate my day and keep check on how life is going so completin...
Send us a text This episode is all about cultivating an optimistic mindset. Throughout the podcast I make reference to a book by Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism. The 3 P’s that are used to explain our successes and our failures in life. How we explain these to ourselves will determine whether we have an optimistic mindset in certain situations or a pessimistic mindset. The pessimist will explain things in their own head very differently to an optimist and when it comes to failures, t...
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