Dave Evans

So she's working full-time running a graduate school while going full-time to school getting a PhD.

And she called her friends and said, I'm a little overbooked.

I've calculated I have six unscheduled hours in the next five years.

True story.

I have very little time to talk to anybody.

You're not making the cut.

I didn't make the cut.

And that was a radically imbalanced lifestyle, and it was exactly the right coherent thing for her to do.

Highly coherent.

Highly coherent.

So balance is lovely, and if a coherent life and circumstances permit it, great.

But what you really want to be is alive and accepting the compromises that come with it.

Flow.

What about flow?

So flow.

So first of all, we are introducing the concept of the flow world along with the flow state.

So we all know the flow state from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the positive psychologist who invented the term flow, the psychology of optimal experience, published back in 90-something.

And that's lovely as an idea in the zone, what have you.

Most people know what flow is and have had moments of experiencing it.

And so one of the first things we come up with is, okay, so that's the flow state.