Bill Burnett
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And I just took a moment to stop, I had plenty of time to get to the train, really sort of savor the fact that this is a beautiful thing,
Register that as a moment and walk on.
So you can find, put your wonder glasses on for five minutes and see what's in the world that you just aren't noticing and curate your curiosity.
It's a superpower.
Humans are naturally curious.
Or, you know, flow states.
I think there's a...
TED Talk on 21 Neuroscience Proven Methods to Get to Flow.
But flow is just that moment where you stop, you flip the switch, and then you attend to, you pay attention to the things that are happening all around you, both that are mysterious and wonderful, but that pull you into an engagement that
which is, you know, almost total.
People talk about, you know, time stands still, and flow, I mean, flow, or, you know, and it can happen when you're jogging.
It can happen when you're, you know, pick a game of basketball if you're an athlete.
For me, I like to cook, and literally, if I pay attention, just chopping onions, if I'm paying attention, there's a flow state.
It doesn't have to be, you know, climbing a mountain or something magical.
It can just be very simple.
And then the other one is this idea of I'm telling your story, you know, talk to people and tell your story.
One of the reasons we wrote this book is that people are really lonely now.
And they're kind of living in echo chambers and they're not, you know, young men are not connecting, you know, in the world and people in general are spending too much time on social media.
So find one or two people and have a conversation around this idea of, hey, what's meaningful for you?
What's meaningful to you?