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#382: Jack Smith – How To Take A "Think Week" To Find Flow

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How to Get in the State of Flow

I was totally burned out and I read this Wall Street Journal article about Bill Gates. And it said that when he was chairman of Microsoft, he took what he called a think week. So he'd go to this cabin he has by a lake and just no electronics and no people, just himself. It looked all around the world and it was quite hard actually to find a suitable place. But I found a place in Indonesia that they describe themselves as like a silent retreat center. No gurus, no religion, no meditation, etc. Just don't talk to each other. They create the optimal environment for a state of flow. Every day breakfast is at this time and they hit a g

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