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The Cleanup Game
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How to Drop Into Flow (-> Bored to Awesome)

Big news at the Johnson house: We recently got a new robot vacuum cleaner. (Hah.) Given the 18,000+ reviews on the one we wound up getting, I realize we’re late to the party on this one but it’s still been fun to play with our new robot that is now affectionately named “Robo.” So… T...

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Genius Work vs. Mediocre Work
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High Fiving Your Inner Genius

In our last +1, we talked about the INFINITE power of Consistency. Recall that our (always evolving) equation for Awesome now goes something like this: Awesome = Time x (Energy x Focus x What’s Important) Consistency (Note: That equation applies to both our Work and our Love.) So… As I was preparing ...

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The INFINITE Power of CONSISTENCY
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(Energy x Focus x What’s Important Now) ^ Consistency

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that, if we could figure out how to take 30 EXPONENTIAL steps, we’d be able to hop in a rocket and go around the Earth two DOZEN times. Rather than get 90 feet down the street, we’d get a few BILLION steps further in our joyful jaunt around the Earth. That’s...

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Superhero, Meet Your Supervillain
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The 5 Digital D’s: Deluge + Distraction + Dementia + Deduction + Depression

A few +1s ago we spent some time with Jim Kwik and his brilliant book Limitless. Jim is a huge fan of superheroes. As a kid, he suffered a brain injury that made it challenging for him to learn how to read. He found solace in comic books as they were both easy to read and packed with inspiring models. He...

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Superman’s Kryptonite Bath
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How to Destroy Your Power Tonight

A couple +1s ago, we referenced Steven Kotler’s line from The Rise of Superman. Recall that he said: “To put it another way: flow is the telephone booth where Clark Kent changes clothes, the place from where Superman emerges.” We then unpacked the three key variables to our Flow Equation (E...

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Clark Kent’s Changing Room
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The Flow Telephone Booth

Continuing our brief foray through Jim Kwik’s brain and book, let’s talk about the power of getting into Flow. Jim tells us that being able to flip the switch and drop into a powerful Flow state is one of the keys to tapping into our (Limitless!!) superpowers. He quotes Steven Kotler in The Rise of S...

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Hedonic Eudaimonia
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A Close Relative of Flow Junkies

Yesterday afternoon I was having my last meal of the day at 3:15pm (go glymph!!) before my 3:30 physical therapy appointment with the wonderful Dr. Julie. I was looking at the mountain and reflecting on how good I felt after a day filled with 4.75 hours of Deep Work Flow. Then I smiled as I thought about...

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On a Roll?
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Keep Creatively Shooting!

You know how I’m all about oscillating and recommend that we pretty much never work for longer than 90 minutes straight without at least a 10 to 15 minute break? Well, I just violated that principle. Twice. Today. (Hah.) I had some aggressive targets with getting ahead on these +1s and planned to creat...

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Flow Junkies
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How to Attain Superyou Mastery Sans Misery

In our last +1, we made our plans to enjoy doing the impossible together over breakfast in the not-too-distant future after following a nice little aggregation and compounding of a bunch of little +4% gains. Today we’re going to talk about the fact that, as Steven says, we can achieve that mastery “s...

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Squirrels, Einstein and You
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Two Mindsets: Training vs. Trusting

In our last +1, we had fun dominating our dishes with Byron Katie. Get this: The same day I was thinking about that, I was driving to my sunrise trail on a rare, magically misty morning in Ojai. I’m at a stop sign a minute from our house. I glance at Byron Katie’s little chapel on my left then back a...

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What to Do When You’re Flowing
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Stay in the Zone - Keep Hammering

Lanny Bassham won a gold medal in rifle shooting. We’ve talked about him and his wisdom from With Winning in Mind a number of times. Today we’re going to chat about another little story from that great book. Here’s the rough take. Lanny almost won a gold in his first Olympics. But he says he kinda ...

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What It Is & How to Get in It

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world’s leading researchers studying the science of well-being. He co-founded the Positive Psychology movement with Martin Seligman and has written landmark books on Creativity and Flow. After surveying thousands of people, Mihaly was able to shine some light on th...

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PhilosophersNotes (7)

Wired to Create

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind

by Scott Barry Kaufman, Carolyn Gregoire

This book started out as a blog post by Carolyn Gregoire based on Scott Barry Kaufman’s work that went viral: 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently. Scott is one of the world’s leading creativity researchers. Carolyn is a senior writer at the Huffington Post. Together, they wrote a great little book on the mysteries of the creative mind. Big Ideas we explore include: the fact that creativity is a messy business (embrace complexity!), the power of walking for daydreaming (all the cool philosophers do it!), creating a nice home for your genius to visit (she’s got the magic!), creating again and again (and again), unitask rather than multitask (unless you want to atrophy the best part of your brain), and STAMP your life with your own personality (but only if you want to be great … and happy!).

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Born for This

How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do

by Chris Guillebeau

What were you born to do? As you might have guessed, that’s what this book is all about. Our guide, Chris Guillebeau, gives us a bunch of helpful tips and strategies to help us find the work we were meant to do. Big Ideas we explore include how win the career lottery (hint: think JOY-MONEY-FLOW), playing the elimination game, remembering that if Plan A fails you still have 25 other letters, Warren Buffett on goals, and getting good at quitting.

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Creativity

The Psychology of Discovery and Invention

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity with a capital C—the type of Creativity that changes the world. How can we go about cultivating it in our lives? That’s what this book is all about. Our guide is the legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Big Ideas we explore include defining true Creativity, focusing our attention and being willing to be kinda weird, the one personality trait all Creators have in common (hint: complexity!), creating rhythms and the nine elements of flow and how to tap into it!

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Deep Work

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport

Deep Work. It’s the key to how you get So Good They Can’t Ignore You—which, of course, is the title of another one of Cal’s great books. Big Ideas include Deep Work vs. Shallow Work, how to give your neurons a workout, cleaning up attention residue, the four rules of deep work, finding the routine that works for you and learning how to shut down completely.

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The Rise of Superman

Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

by Steven Kotler

The Rise of Superman. What an awesome title and vision. Steven Kotler is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of flow. He created the Flow Genome Project that is all about “decoding the peak performance state of flow.” (<—Awesome.) In this book we take a peak at how we can get our greatness on. Big Ideas include a quick look at flow and how to hack it, achieving mastery sans misery, using fear as a compass and how to do the impossible.

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With Winning in Mind

The Mental Management System

by Lanny Bassham

This is a SHOCKINGLY good book. Want to get your mind right? Lanny Bassham, an Olympic gold medalist, has been teaching the art of mental training/peak performance for decades and this book tells us just how to rock it. In the Note, we'll look at the importance of making the process primary and other fundamentals of mental mastery.

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Flow

The Psychology of Optimal Experience

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow. It's all about the science of optimal human experience. In this Note, we'll explore what the flow state is (hint: get fully engaged in an activity that matches your skills with your challenge) and we’ll look at some other Big Ideas on controlling the contents of our consciousness to get out of anxiety and boredom as we create more flow experiences in our lives. (Plus, you'll even learn how to pronounce "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.")

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