How To Reprogram Your Dopamine To 1000x Your Productivity | Ep 31
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Jul 7, 2025
Unlocking your productivity might just be about reprogramming your dopamine! The discussion emphasizes valuing output over hours worked, presenting a new way to define productivity. Harnessing long-term rewards can propel success, with a focus on building leverage through persistence. Personal anecdotes illustrate how small, strategic decisions can drive growth. Learn how peak performers differ from amateurs by mastering the art of efficiency through flow states and effective systems.
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question_answer ANECDOTE
Rían’s Ice Cream Cart Story
Rían Doris sold ice cream on the beach and consistently made $600 a day, which capped his earnings.
He was physically present for every sale and resisted stepping back to create leverage.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Kim Malik’s Leverage Success
Kim Malik bought an ice cream cart and built a buffet of carts and employees, creating Salt and Straw.
She escaped the time-for-money trap by building leverage and systems for growth without more time input.
insights INSIGHT
Productivity is a Ratio
Productivity is output relative to input, not just hours worked.
There's a physical limit to work hours, so increased output needs leverage, not just more grind.
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Rían Doris is the Founder & CEO of FlowState.com, the world’s leading peak performance research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and helping leaders and their teams unlock flow states consistently. Past clients include Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain & the US Airforce.
Along with being listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Rian's thought leadership has been featured in Fast Company, PBS and Big Think and he hosts Flow Research Collective Radio, an iTunes top 10 science podcast.
Rían is also the Executive Chairman & Owner of Consulting.com. On the side, Rian does some angel investing in health and performance companies like Levels Health, Neurohacker Collective, The Way & Myodetox.
Rían holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Neuroscience at King's College, London and an MBA. Rian is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Birmingham—focusing on how flow states affect perceived meaning in life.
Prior to co-founding Flow Research Collective with Steven Kotler, Rian worked with NYT Bestselling Author Keith Ferazzi, and 12X NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Dan Siegel, distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.