TJ Power

It's like you want to have an orgasm, you can go to the bathroom and have that in a few minutes with pornography instead of having like a slow intimate experience with your partner. Ultimately, for all of us as human beings in this modern world to feel our happiest, anything that provides slow pleasure is the pursuit that we should be on.

It's like you want to have an orgasm, you can go to the bathroom and have that in a few minutes with pornography instead of having like a slow intimate experience with your partner. Ultimately, for all of us as human beings in this modern world to feel our happiest, anything that provides slow pleasure is the pursuit that we should be on.

We're in a society right now where this is brand new, all this quick stuff, and we really just need to consider it. Let's have a conversation. Let's not judge one another for engaging with it, but let's consider how we can enhance our relationship in order to come away from that activity.

We're in a society right now where this is brand new, all this quick stuff, and we really just need to consider it. Let's have a conversation. Let's not judge one another for engaging with it, but let's consider how we can enhance our relationship in order to come away from that activity.

This is a really interesting area of dopamine. There's this brilliant scientist I love called Gold that looked into the relationship between dopamine and what we call flow state. Flow state being when we get incredibly deeply immersed in a task.

This is a really interesting area of dopamine. There's this brilliant scientist I love called Gold that looked into the relationship between dopamine and what we call flow state. Flow state being when we get incredibly deeply immersed in a task.

Again, with that hunter-gatherer example, they lived their lives in flow state, building, you get so into deep flow state, making fire, hunting, foraging for food. Big proportions of their day were spent deeply focused on one activity. Nowadays, we're basically doing like 500 activities a day.

Again, with that hunter-gatherer example, they lived their lives in flow state, building, you get so into deep flow state, making fire, hunting, foraging for food. Big proportions of their day were spent deeply focused on one activity. Nowadays, we're basically doing like 500 activities a day.

I even saw recent research shows that we have 35,000 decisions that we're making a day now, comparably to an estimate with them of about 2,500 decisions a day. So we're just doing much more different stuff than the things we did when we were living our former lives.

I even saw recent research shows that we have 35,000 decisions that we're making a day now, comparably to an estimate with them of about 2,500 decisions a day. So we're just doing much more different stuff than the things we did when we were living our former lives.

And when we look at increasing someone's attention span, fundamentally, all of the dopaminergic stuff is going to impact it because you need an abundance of dopamine in your brain in order to concentrate.

And when we look at increasing someone's attention span, fundamentally, all of the dopaminergic stuff is going to impact it because you need an abundance of dopamine in your brain in order to concentrate.

So waking up, not going on the phone, things like the big morning routine of the cold water on your face and brushing your teeth and making your bed, then at least your dopamine is coming into a good place. You then have to sit down at your desk and think, how the hell am I going to increase my attention span by 48%? Fundamentally, the phone cannot be anywhere near you.

So waking up, not going on the phone, things like the big morning routine of the cold water on your face and brushing your teeth and making your bed, then at least your dopamine is coming into a good place. You then have to sit down at your desk and think, how the hell am I going to increase my attention span by 48%? Fundamentally, the phone cannot be anywhere near you.

It needs to be physically separate from you. So you need to select the task if your phone is required for your calendar or your task list, whatever it may be. One task has to be selected. Never select multiple at once because our brain simply cannot get into a deep state of flow if we're in that kind of experience.

It needs to be physically separate from you. So you need to select the task if your phone is required for your calendar or your task list, whatever it may be. One task has to be selected. Never select multiple at once because our brain simply cannot get into a deep state of flow if we're in that kind of experience.

We then have this process of gamifying the experience of trying to get into a deep state of concentration. We get people on their computer. So once they've selected their task, they've separated themselves from their phone to click on a new tab and just search the word stopwatch on Google and you'll see a stopwatch appear. It's very important to do it by that and not with the phone.

We then have this process of gamifying the experience of trying to get into a deep state of concentration. We get people on their computer. So once they've selected their task, they've separated themselves from their phone to click on a new tab and just search the word stopwatch on Google and you'll see a stopwatch appear. It's very important to do it by that and not with the phone.

You then go on the stopwatch. Once you're ready to start the task, you click start. You begin the task and very quickly you find yourself beginning to feel bored or too difficult, too challenged by the task itself. These are the two things that take us out of flow, something being boring and too easy effectively or something being too difficult.

You then go on the stopwatch. Once you're ready to start the task, you click start. You begin the task and very quickly you find yourself beginning to feel bored or too difficult, too challenged by the task itself. These are the two things that take us out of flow, something being boring and too easy effectively or something being too difficult.