🎙 INTERVIEW: Redefining Success and Embracing Experimentation w/ Writer and Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff
** This is a LIVE interview with author Anne-Laure Le Cunff about the craft of writing and reality of building a writing career. Attendees will be sent a recording after the interview. **
How can we experiment for greater creativity? How can we let go of our self-limiting beliefs around success?
Join us for a conversation with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, writer, neuroscientist, and founder of Ness Labs, whose work inspires people to achieve more without sacrificing mental health. Creator of the Ness Labs newsletter (100k+ subscribers) and author of Tiny Experiments, Anne-Laure believes in learning in public and redefining success on your own terms.
In this conversation, we’ll talk to Anne-Laure about building a community, writing in public, growing her newsletter and writing her non-fiction book.
We’ll also dive into her neuroscience-backed strategies to help you:
Turn procrastination into a productive force
Embrace uncertainty as a path to discovery
Make better long-term decisions using “second-level” thinking
Use tiny experiments to unlock creativity and explore new possibilities in your writing
About Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is an award-winning neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and writer. She is the founder of Ness Labs, where her weekly newsletter about mindful productivity and systematic curiosity is read by more than 100,000 curious minds. Her research at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of lifelong learning, curiosity, and adaptability.
Her upcoming book, Tiny Experiments, is a transformative guide for living a more experimental life, turning uncertainty into curiosity, and carving a path of self-discovery. Drawing from ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Le Cunff challenges the conventional linear approach to life and success. The book provides practical tools for conducting personal experiments and dismantling deep-rooted cognitive patterns, helping readers reawaken their curiosity and pursue their most authentic ambitions in an increasingly complex world.
Previously, Le Cunff worked at Google as a global lead for digital health. Her work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Forbes, the Financial Times, WIRED, and more. She serves as an advisor for the Applied Neuroscience Association and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship on themes of mental health at work. Based in London, she continues in her writing and research to explore the intersection of neuroscience and personal development.
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Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon, creators of the webby-nominated Writers' Hour daily writing sessions, and hosts of the London Writers' Salon podcast.
Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.
Matt Trinetti is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and facilitator. In addition to running LWS, Matt designs programs to help unfulfilled professionals pursue creative work, start businesses, and reinvent their careers. Matt's work has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Creative Mornings, and on his blog GiveLiveExplore.
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