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Mapping Cloud 9: Part 2 - Steven Kotler | Flow Research Collective Radio

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Everything You Do You Do Better. And Flow

Floe is the secret to optimal performance. Top executives in flow report being 500% more productive than out of flow. Two days a week in flow, you are a thousand % more productive then the competition. It's why companies like microsop ericson toyota and patagonia have made floe the centre of their corporate methodology. An ordinary person is someone extraordinary. Everything you do you do better. So flow is all of us performing at our best.

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He said, i can't answer that. All i can tell you is what i already told you. When i'm push the edge, skating beyond my abilities, it's always a meditation in the zone. So earlier when i said, whenever we see the impossible becoming possible, this is exactly what i was talking about. So after scientists figured out, oh, flo is secret to optimal performance, and we started putting numbers on it, right? How optimal? We did it in sports. Then we did it in ardent. Tachnolege, they did it in business also. So mackenzie, the business consultancy, they did a ten years study of top executives, and they found that top executives in flow report being 500 % more productive than out of flow. You got to think about that. That means you could go to work on monday, spend monday in a flow state, take tuesday through friday off. And you get as much done as everybody else. Two days a week in flow, you are a thousand % more productive then the competition. It's for these reasons that forbes once pointed out that the number one management metric people need to know flow stage pertentage, which is the amount of time people spend in flow. It's why companies like microsop ericson toyota and patagonia have made floe the centre of their corporate methodology. And the most important thing though, is it's not just top athletes or big corporations or experts, it's all of us. Ned hallowell, the harvard psychologist who coind the term a d h d, he once pointed out. And i love this quote, floe naturally catapults you to a level you're not naturally in. Floe naturally transforms a weakling into a mussulman, a sketcher into an artist, a dancer into a ballarine, a plotter into a sprinter. An ordinary person is someone extraordinary. Everything you do you do better. And flow. From baking chocolate cake to planning a vacation to solving a differential equation to writing a business plan to plying tennis to making love, everything you do you do better. And flow. Flow is the doorway to the or most of us seek, rather n then telling ourselves to get used to it, that's all there is. Instead, learn how to enter into flow. There you will find, in manageable doses, all the more you need. So flow is all of us performing at our best. So after we figure out how optimal is optima, the next question is, where is all this coming from, right? And this is where norro science has caught up with us. So for those you are t moore's law right? 19 65, gordon moore, a couple of years before he founds intal, notices the number of integrated circuits on a computer ship had been doubling every year, year and a half, and he's blown away like wild this means every year and a half my computer gets
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twice as fast, but the
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cost stays the same.

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