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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Steven Kotler is the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective and a leading expert in peak performance. He is an 11-time national bestselling author, known for successful books such as “The Art of Impossible,” and “The Future is Faster Than You Think.”
In this episode, we talked about the science and application of flow, recovery and energy management, motivation and goal-setting…
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0:00.0 | Flow follows focus. It only shows up when all our attention is the right here right now. |
0:05.9 | So that's what all the triggers do. They drive our attention into the present moment. |
0:11.1 | If I wanted to get into the neuroscience, they do it a bunch of different ways. Some of them push dopamine to our system. |
0:17.3 | Some of them push norapinephrine to our system. Some of them lower cognitive load. |
0:21.1 | The other load is just all the crap you're trying to think about it any one time. And if I lower |
0:24.9 | cognitive load, this is what people will tell you, clean your office, right? If when you're totally |
0:29.1 | distracted and you're all over the place, what do I do first? You clean your office. Why would you |
0:33.4 | possibly clean your office? It lowers cognitive load. All the crap you're trying to think |
0:37.9 | about starts to go away and what happens? You liberate some extra energy. What does the brain do |
0:43.9 | with that extra energy? It repurposes it for focus and attention. So complete concentration |
0:49.9 | is the first flow trigger, the most important. Welcome to the Home Service Expert, |
0:56.0 | where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, |
1:01.2 | like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership, |
1:04.4 | to find out what's really behind their success in business. |
1:08.2 | Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. |
1:19.8 | Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. |
1:23.4 | First, I want you to implement what you learned today. |
1:26.1 | To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. |
1:31.8 | So I ask the team to take notes for you. |
1:33.8 | Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. |
1:40.8 | That's 888-526-1299, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. |
1:48.5 | Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. |
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