Stephen Collar

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

Oh, do they feel like, is this my workplace without having to get into discussions about political correctness versus non, like all this stuff that really is sort of, I think, poisonous to most businesses these days and are really dragging up businesses and education, a lot of stuff. And it's not that the intentions are bad. I think the intentions are great.

I think the way it's being operationalized is a disaster. And the better way to operationalize it is to actually track for flow because you get those other things baked in. By the way, we just talked for an hour.

And maybe this hasn't happened to you, which is amazing. When your dreams become your own prison, when you build it, that's what happens to a lot of entrepreneurs, right? They're tracking on the vision, they're growing it, they're growing it, they're growing it, they're growing it. They get to where they want to go and they're like, oh shit, I built a cage out of my dreams.

Well, the other thing you said, and this is worth asking about, I've always had a vision. My attention always is going, okay, I've learned this. Where can I go next? What's the next hard challenge? What's the next hard challenge?

If you don't have those, if you don't have a new North Star, if you build a company and get suddenly achieved everything you want to do without another vision to anchor yourself, we're goal-directed machines. Humans are goal-directed machines. What the science tells us, if you look at my book, The Art of Impulse, which tracks this,

we function best with three tiers of goals you need daily to-do list clear goals and flow terminology and they're said in a very specific way you need high heart goals these are like multi-year goals three to five year goals and then you need mission statement goals for your life right you want them all pointing in the same direction so like what you're doing today is feeding into your high heart goals

which is feeding into your mission goals, which is what Peter and I called a massively transformative purpose, right? Back when we were writing Bold, credit where credit is due. Salim Ismail's term, we stole it from Salim. But a massively transformative purpose is your anchor, and everything sort of fills to that. And if you're massively transformative purpose, you've suddenly achieved it, right?

And you haven't set another one or extended it out, that also derails a lot of people. That sounds like what you were talking about.

My brain, my body, my career, my marriage. I bankrupted myself.

Because, and I'm sure probably 50, 60, 70% of the people who listen to your podcast are interested in some level of self-improvement, fixing their lives, fixing their career.

Most people. Yeah. If your experience was anything like mine, if you don't come in armed with the neuroscience and blah, blah, we'll come back to that in a second. The fuck do you do first? Do I care about goal setting? Is this about connection? Is this about motivation? Where do I start? Is this about flow? This guy's talking about flow. It turns out if you follow the biology, there's a map.

There's literally a map. We know where you start. We know what you do. We know what order it goes in. It always has to start with motivation. We learned this way back in the day. Abraham Maslow pointed it out, but it's been proven again and again. First of all, You can't pay your bills on that. You are rent insecure, food insecure, any of those things.

Solve that problem first because until you don't need a lot of money. You need to just, they've proven like after 70,000. Well, but that number is literally for a family, right? It's basic needs plus a little leftover for discretionary income. That's all you need. But if you don't have that. The basic necessities. There's too much fear. So fear. Maslow's hierarchy.

Norepinephrine, all that stuff that produces for your cortisol. It blocks peak performance. It blocks everything else. So you have to start with extrinsic motivation. You got to start by paying your bills. Once that happens, the next thing you want is intrinsic motivation. Big drivers to drive you forward so you can get in the game. And what are the biggest drivers?

Autonomy, mastery, purpose, passion, and curiosity. And there's an order. Curiosity is designed to be built into passion, which is designed to be built into purpose. And once you have your purpose, what do you want? Autonomy, you want the freedom to pursue your purpose. Once you have your autonomy, what do you need? Mastery, the skills to pursue that purpose well. That's how the biology works.

Once you're there, It's time to layer in the three tiers of goal setting. And once you're there, now it's time to talk flow. right? Like we know this, you know, everybody's selling a different piece in this puzzle. So you're getting all these different messages, but neurobiology really laid out the map. It was like, okay, start here, go here, go here. It's a check.

I said, we may argue over this, but I'm the dumbest guy in the room. I need a checklist. What am I doing first? What am I doing second? What am I doing third?

So with Tommy, and we can talk about why again, but I've seen this again and again and again, right? My career started as a journalist, then moved into writing books. And now I still do those things. Not a lot of journalism, but now I do the science. It's just gotten me sort of more granular about, over the time.

But what I've really done is in every domain, I've tried to be in the room when the impossible becomes possible, right? Like when somebody does something, whether it's turn on the very first artificial vision implant, the very first time a blind person could see, how did you do that? Where did it come from to like Peter when he founded the XPRIZE and was the first private spaceship?

How did you do that, right? That was always my question. You pulled off the impossible. How did it happen? Flow is always part of the answer. There's a bunch more of the answer, which is why Art in the Impossible is a bigger book than just about flow. But one of the things that I found about the top performers across the boards is they use fear as a compass. And the reason is this.

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