TJ Power

Yeah, I think I'm actually going through this now.

We're in the process of my next book.

So I've really got to get dialed in on entering flow state.

And the sort of considerations I'd be taking is...

If you're working with other people, if you have colleagues or teammates or maybe even people in your family, like you need to make sure people are aware that you're about to try and enter this state so that they can understand that interruptions are really not particularly conducive to you getting there.

If you're in a working environment where people are expecting you to reply every two minutes, it's important for them to know I'm just about to get in flow state.

It's going to be beneficial to my work if I get there.

And you don't have to do this all day.

Like I wouldn't expect myself to be in 10 hours of flow state, but it's just like a nice 60 minute block or like a 30 minute block.

It takes about 15 minutes for the brain to get into a deeper state of focus.

So at the beginning, it's hard.

Your brain is battling for distraction.

Eventually, your brain starts coming to terms with the fact that your brain wants to be isolated on just one thing.

Typically, our brain is scanning an environment, just scanning, scanning, scanning.

Then eventually, if the brain's like, okay, I'm going to go into deep focus, it really can.

It just takes a bit of warm-up time to get there.

So I'll make sure that my phone is not in this room.

If my phone is in this room while I try and end flow state, zero chance.

I'll make sure things like WhatsApp, LinkedIn, email, everything is shut so that there's no opportunity for me to just, when I get bored or something's challenging, just to click.

Because if it's open, you're going on it 100%.