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Bill Burnett

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Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

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,

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Register that as a moment and walk on.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

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.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It's a superpower.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Humans are naturally curious.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

Or, you know, flow states.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

I think there's a...

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

TED Talk on 21 Neuroscience Proven Methods to Get to Flow.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

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

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

which is, you know, almost total.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

People talk about, you know, time stands still, and flow, I mean, flow, or, you know, and it can happen when you're jogging.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It can happen when you're, you know, pick a game of basketball if you're an athlete.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

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.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It doesn't have to be, you know, climbing a mountain or something magical.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

It can just be very simple.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

And then the other one is this idea of I'm telling your story, you know, talk to people and tell your story.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

One of the reasons we wrote this book is that people are really lonely now.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

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.

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

So find one or two people and have a conversation around this idea of, hey, what's meaningful for you?

Something You Should Know
Secret Service Communication Skills & Designing a Meaningful Life

What's meaningful to you?