Stephen Collar

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The Home Service Expert Podcast · Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States · 10 Jan 2025 podcast

And because of this weird experience I'd had where I'd had a lot of access right before I met Peter, a bunch of aerospace engineers who all told me what Peter was saying was possible. And they were all sort of like rebel misfits engineers. So like the mainstream was saying what Peter was saying was impossible with this whole group.

And I was like, these guys know what they're talking about because I watched them. I watched them drive a car through the sound bay. And if you, that's harder than putting a spaceship into space. So I was like, okay, this thing is possible. So I met Peter on, you know, the first time I met him, he was like, he doesn't tow this line now.

And he didn't very, very quickly after the X-Prize got found, but he was like, we're going to take down NASA. We're going to, it was this crazy, impossible dream. And yet eight years later, Branson went into space. So like, I really got to live through like, I watched my buddy Peter open the space frontier and like everybody else looked at Peter as like, Oh my God, some kind of God.

And I was like, no, no, he's just my friend. He's just like a dude. He's like all the skiers I knew back in squaw. Like if we lionize people, like if you're, if you're a skier and access for athletes, like you lionize people, like,

shane mcconkie and or uh dean potter like the folks i wrote about in the rise of superman but like they're goofy fuck-ups when you met them back you know what i mean they put their pants on the same way as everybody else i've met very few people who

would actually qualify for the term genius and you know most of the ones i've met are not particularly good at business or like they can't really function in the world i've met a handful of geniuses who can actually like they're good enough at like being a genius and business that they can pull it off but very few right very few i'll tell you what a lot of people confuse a genius is simply redundancy and keep at it keep at it keep at it until there is a skill development until like the compound interest thing that you mentioned

Well, the other thing is also like I had this crazy opportunity because I wrote the very first giant, the first big article on the XPRIZE. So I interviewed all the original XPRIZE teams. Like there was a Chinese team that was building a rocket out of wood. There was, like, people were doing really nuts, nuts stuff.

I mean, now you look at Bezos and you look at France and you look at Elon and you think, well, those guys know what they're doing. Like, it was a free-for-all when the XPRIZE got first announced. So it was even more amazing when it got won because when you actually, like, sat down with, like, it was, like, 20 of the wild-eyed boys from FreeCloud that were going to go to the moon.

And what's amazing about it is it's a billion-dollar industry. Trillion-dollar industry. It's going to be a trillion-dollar industry pretty soon. Yeah, exactly.

And you can find all this in my book, The Art of Impossible, and you can get more formal training. You can probably find this in a million different podcasts with me. When it comes to flow, flow itself, there's really only two things to know. What are those flow triggers and how do I just deploy them, right? And then, this is the other thing we were talking about earlier, flow is a cycle.

It starts with a struggle phase, then there's a release phase, then there's the flow state itself, and then there's a recovery phase on the back end. That's your map, right? You've got to know where you are on the map and what's your toolbox and your flow triggers. So like, Oh, I'm in struggle. Okay, what are the triggers that are good here? Oh, I'm in release.

What are the triggers that are good here? Oh, it's flow. How do I sustain that for longer? What are the triggers good here? Oh, this is recovery. Well, how do I maximize my recovery? I mean, like, that's all you really need to know to do this. It's not a whole lot. And depending on like... What your field is and what your work environment is, you know what I mean?

Like those triggers are really, they're fairly easy to deploy. And the other thing I always tell people this with peak performance, because it's biologically hardwired, like I always think of people who come to the Flow Research Collective to train with us. I always say, I don't have a vertical. I've got a horizontal. Like my customers fit a horizontal.

I tend to, people who come to me are usually top 30% in their field and they want to be top 5%. That tends to be who comes my way. I always tell people, you can't get top 30% of your field, top 40% of your field without doing this stuff because there's no secret weapon. There's just your biology, right? Like you're doing this shit anyways. What you don't realize is there's a map There's an order.

Somebody's done the homework for you. You can hire a guide for this shit. You don't have to reinvent the wheel here because the neurobiology and the advances we've made in brain science over the past 20 years has allowed us to map it.

So no, there's a bunch of different ways you can train with me. The one I, I do a flow for writers course, which is everything. Like flow for writers is my favorite course to teach because it started out as a way for thought, help thought leaders to write books, right? Guys that use themselves who wanted to write books.

And I think I probably help with more books on the New York Times, but I sell this to anybody else this time. But it's broadened out to anybody. If you want to write sales copy, if you want to advertise in copy, marketing copy, blogs, communication of any kind, It's widened out. So that is an actual live in-person event that I train. When is it? The next one is in the end of October.

So stephencottler.com and just click training. And that's how you find Flow for Writers. And we do it live a couple of times a year. And then there's a digital version if that's what you want to go with. But that's if you want to train with me live. The two ways to train with me live is that. And the other thing is I actually come in and when we work with businesses...

The way we usually work with companies is I'll come in and I'll train the C-suite. We can go out and train every one of your teams in every location you possibly want, and I will send my coaches out, but I'll train up the C-suite. The interesting thing about working with businesses is when you analyze the companies that are best at this, who's really going to flow? Amazon's good.

Google's pretty good. Toyota's great. Patagonia. There are these 28 flow triggers. When you dig under the hood, you realize that most businesses, and I'm sure your business is this way, and I'm sure your business is this way. If we did the analysis, you would find this. You focused on one or two flow triggers. You haven't, you don't, it's not the full menu.

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