Flow State Unlocked with Rían Doris How to Structure Your Day for Flow State
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Aug 11, 2026 They tackle procrastination and the neuroscience behind inaction. They split work into “push” (deep, proactive) and “pull” (reactive, fragmented). They explain how reactive tasks hijack your day and offer three tactics: separate, sequence, and stretch. They share a practical daily structure: push first, compress pull later, and schedule recovery.
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Mountain Hike That Framed Push Versus Pull
- Rían Doris describes hiking Crowpatrick and alternating between moving up the mountain and maintenance tasks that enable progress.
- He uses this to illustrate two work categories: tasks that advance you and tasks that merely enable advancement.
Push Work Requires Macro Flow
- Rían defines push work as the proactive tasks that directly grow your business and require deep sustained focus.
- He links push work to macro flow states where creativity, learning speed, and decision quality dramatically increase.
Pull Work Gives Easy Dopamine Not Progress
- Rían contrasts pull work as reactive, fragmented tasks like meetings, emails, and admin that maintain but don't grow the business.
- He says pull work favors micro flow and gives quick dopamine hits that feel productive but aren't high-impact.