Flow State
The neuroscience of accessing flow state consistently. (also known as "being in the zone") Research-backed protocols for entrepreneurs & professionals who want to multiply their output without multiplying their hours.
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Your 2 PM Meeting Killed Your Focus at 9 AM (opens the original)
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Your brain can’t start focused work when it knows an interruption is coming.A region of the prefrontal cortex is responsible for tracking future obligations, and the moment it detects something coming, it keeps your brain in a low-grade state of readiness that blocks the neurological shift required for flow.You feel it as resistance. A subtle pull away from the hard stuff. You write it off as a rough morning.Your calendar did that to you.The meeting on your calendar at 2 PM reduced your capacity
How To Force Your Brain To Crave Doing Hard Things (opens the original)
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Science shows there’s a source of motivation more powerful than money, praise, or fame, one that practically forces your brain to crave doing the hard work you keep putting off.I’m Rian Doris. I’ve trained thousands of professionals - including teams at Audi, Facebook, and the US Air Force - on how to increase productivity and access flow state on demand. <input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1"
The Six Triggers Behind Burnout (It's Not Just Overworking) (opens the original)
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Burnout is recognized by the World Health Organization as an occupational syndrome that alters your neural circuitry.Taking a week off addresses one of its six known causes. The other five keep firing while you’re at the beach.I learned this the hard way. Twice.Over the next few minutes, I’ll show you the six triggers behind burnout, the five protocols to shut it down, and how the best performers I know work at full capacity without ever hitting the wall.I’m
Stop Overthinking Every Decision. Your Subconscious Already Has the Answer. (opens the original)
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You’ve been agonizing over the same decision for days. Late nights replaying both options. Spending hours weighing pros and cons.Meanwhile, there’s a network in your brain designed to solve exactly this. It works faster, uses less energy, and arrives at better answers than your conscious mind ever could.You’ve just never been taught how to activate it.This is a form of effortless decision-making. The sort of decision-making that you get in flow state, which is an optimal state of consciousness w
This Workspace Setup Will Change Your Life (opens the original)
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Charles Darwin. William Shakespeare. Emily Dickinson. Thomas Edison.What did all of these people have in common?They all had a place. A specific location in time and space from which they changed the world. And the nature of that place affected the degree of change they were able to make.From Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park to Darwin’s family Down House in Kent, these creators had a workspace in which they lost themselves in a state of flow.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="ht
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