Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States
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What is flow and how does it relate to focus?
Flow follows focus. It only shows up when all our attention is the right here, right now. So that's what all the triggers do. They drive our attention into the present moment. If I wanted to get into the neuroscience, they do it a bunch of different ways. Some of them push dopamine to our system. Some of them push norepinephrine to our system. Some of them lower cognitive load. Cognitive load is just all the crap you're trying to think about at any one time. And if I lower cognitive load, this is why people will tell you, clean your office, right? If when you're totally distracted and you're all over the place, what do I do first? You clean your office. Why would you possibly clean your office? It lowers cognitive load.
All the crap you're trying to think about starts to go away. And what happens? You liberate some extra energy. What does the brain do with that extra energy? It repurposes it for focus and attention. So complete concentration is the first flow trigger, the most important.
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Yeah, about a year ago. And Stephen's wrote... I don't like not one, not two, but probably a dozen, 14 books, 14 books. He's the expert of flow. I mean, there's like, he is the world renowned expert. And this idea of flow is what athletes do. It's what doctors do. It's what businessmen do. It's what everybody does when they get in this 500% better results. And we talked a lot. We're going to talk about goal setting. One of the biggest things you talk about a lot is just the neural connections and some of these ideas of these different ways to get in the flow. And now there's the neurotransmitters, the dopamine release, the Burning Man festivals, and just all these different ideas. So we're going to jump into this.
I don't think this is going to be a foo-foo, rah-rah podcast. This is really good about performance and about being your best self. So Joe's here. What's your biggest takeaway? I mean, you've known Kotler for a long time.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Gosh, we first met around 2010. I've had quite a few interviews with him. Smart dude. He's very science-based and he's very much, he'll call out what he thinks are charlatans and bullshit. And he always looks back and like, how do we know this actually works? And Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who wrote the original Flow the Psychology of Achievement and many other great books. Stephen's actually the one that taught me how to actually pronounce it. his last name, Chick, set me high, right? So Mihaly, and he was- Yeah, Tavi, ask me how I learned to pronounce it the hard way. Because I learned the hard way too. And I'll just say this. I found a genius at work and I have Genius Recovery, which is an addiction recovery foundation.
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