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Cofounder, Hudson River Trading

When Your Strengths Get Too Loud | Jason Carroll | TEDxJesterCirED

🎥 Mar 31, 2025 📺 TEDx Talks ⏱ 12m 👁 16 views
What if your greatest strengths—those traits that got you praised, promoted, and picked first—are the very things holding you back ...
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Jason Carroll, CEO and Executive Director of Entropy Neurodynamics, discussed the company's progress in psychedelic drug delivery during a May 2026 interview. He described the company's approach as delivering a precise IV infusion of psilocin, the active ingredient in psilocybin, which he said offers more control and less variability compared to oral psilocybin. Carroll highlighted recent clinical results for the compound TRP 803 in treating irritable bowel syndrome, presented at a major gastroenterology conference by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Columbia University. He stated the results showed a 75% responder rate in a treatment-resistant group, which he described as the strongest result of any IBS therapy. Carroll outlined upcoming milestones, including data from a binge eating disorder study expected in July and a second cohort in the fourth quarter of 2026. He also said the company is close to announcing a parallel study involving over 60 patients across multiple indications, which he described as the most significant study of its kind in psychiatry. He noted that the company's primary focus remains psychiatry, but the IBS results provide a potential parallel approval pathway through gastroenterology.

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What if I told you that it is your greatest strengths, not your weaknesses, that are sabotaging you the most in life? The things you're most naturally good at, not the things you're bad at, are derailing you. Think about your strengths. Who's done a strengths assessment or a personality quiz? These assessments are good at giving us an intro to our strengths but not at showing us what happens when our strengths get too loud. Our strengths are like a volume knob: when dialed in right, they serve us; when turned up too high, they sabotage us. For example, a natural leader becomes a controller who micromanages and burns people out. A nurturing parent becomes an enabler who doesn't let children fail. An achiever becomes a self-critic crushed by unrealistic expectations. I like this volume knob analogy because I'm a musician. My guitarist had talent but no finesse, no dynamics. So we must learn the art of dynamics. Here's a three-step framework: Step one is awareness of your strengths and what drives them. Step two is impact: recognize when your strength is serving versus sabotaging. Step three is choice: you have the remote, you dial it in through practice. Imagine if you perfect this not only for yourself but teach it to the next generation. They have heightened awareness of their strengths but need to know when to dial back. If they learn awareness, impact, and choice, they can turn their strengths into superpowers. So my question: what step will you take — awareness, impact, or choice?