So that is the reason why the smart phone in your pocket today is a 1,000,000 times cheaper, a 1,000,000 times smaller than 1000 times more powerful than what used to be a $60 million supercomputer that was half a building in size 40 years ago.

New construction kits for our reality are now in our pockets.

Folks at Singularity University like to say that a young kid in rural Africa or Bali with a smartphone has better communications technology than a head of state hat than a president had 25 years ago.

Because these tools and technologies, their standings, their metaphors, they are representative of human creativity externalized and exterior rised.

David Deutsch, in his book The Beginning of Infinity, talks about how, if you consider the topography of a modern city like Manhattan or Dubai, that's a physical topography where the forces of mind creativity, human agency have trumped geology.

If you could time lapse human progress, it would literally look like we're shrinking the lag time between what we can imagine, what we can envision and what we can't create.

How about we redefined the term billionaire?

Because one of the sort of incidental, cool side effects of this exponential age, especially among young people, is they all want to be the next billionaire there, like I want to start a company, be like Mark Zuckerberg like how cool to aspire to, like become that success.

It's not.

I want to be a cowboy when I grow up, you know?

It's like I want to come up with an algorithm that impacts a 1,000,000,000 lives.

Cool, become a billionaire.

Great.

What if we redefine the definition?

We say being a billionaire is not making a $1,000,000,000.

That's incidental.

That's a side effect.

That's just the icing on the cake.

Cool.

Buy yourself a jet.

Love it.

Make sure it's a environmentally friendly one.

But what if in the age of exponential technologies, being a billionaire means positively impacting a 1,000,000,000 lives?

That's a beautiful thing.

Writes like Duh, right like bumper sticker Fucking put it on the front of your wall like yes, positively impacting a 1,000,000,000 lives.

And the thing is I've now given you the understanding.

I hope that this is not a lofty goal, that this is possible, that this is doable, that each and every one of you when looking in the mirror when you have that faint disquiet late at night when you haven't slept, you're anxious.

You don't know what your purpose is, where you think you might not be able to have enough of impact.

Think exponential.

Understand that it's not just metaphysical, lofty, spiritually bumper sticker lingo, although that's all good to this is called Grounded in tangible fact.

Also, it's both.

It's poetic truth built on data driven extrapolations.

It's actually possible.

The tools are there.

You could take action.

Just stay at home like reading the secret and hoping for a transformation like Go Do It is that the brain is essentially like an artificial intelligence program.

It takes in data from the present, compares it with data from the past and uses it to make predictions about the future.

And it does this automatically all the time.

And so our baseline is a default of low level anxiety, a consistent future tense very rarely in the presence see on the one hand his capacity to imagine our future to leave the present.

That imagine what might be is a gift.

But it can also be a curse when it robs us of ever being in the moment and never smelling the flowers.

Because if we can't see the world in a grain of sand or heaven in a wildflower, if we can't hold infinity in the palm of our hands, can't hold eternity in an hour, Like Blake said, that what the fuck are we building anything for?

Because you were never here to enjoy any of it.

Consciousness is a new space for exploration.

So Michael Pollan says that one of the things that commends intense experiences, transformational experience of psychedelic experiences, even travel and beauty and love is that these kinds of experiences, they block all signals forwards and backwards right to get you out of thinking always of the future and out of always ruminating from the past, instead hurl you into the flow of the present that is literally wonder, full wonder, being the byproduct of exactly that sense of unencumbered first sight or virginal noticing toe, which the adult brain is closed itself.

So you get to see the world as it through the eyes of a child, you open yourself up to the miraculous once more net intoxicated, This notion of flow.

This is perhaps the greatest state of consciousness to aspire to.

So for those that don't know, Flo is a state of consciousness in which you feel your best and you perform your best.

It's ecstatic.

It's characterized by a sense of selflessness.

When you're in the zone, when you're in the pocket, you're the jazz musician was tapped into the perfect space.

When you're in flow, your sense of self vanishes, the inner chatter disappears, and you experience that is liberation.

You're free from the monkey mind.

Dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex is responsible for the constant self editing that constantly keeps us gets in our way.

People say, Get out of your own way.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Stop second guessing yourself.

When you're in flow that immediately goes quiet, your sense of time disappears, so you're free from the tyranny of time.

You're free from the tic tac Tic tac tic tac that everything is passing urine forever now intoxicated, there's the sense of effortlessness When you're in flow, you don't feel the labor.

Everything is just flowing, whether it's your creativity or your work or your relationship, slow your surfing that wave.

It's magnificent, and there's a sense of richness.

You get more information, you process more data, you get more insights.

You're more resilient.

Your optimized, seminal writer on flows names Chick send me Hi!

Wrote a book on the subject.

He called it beyond boredom and anxiety, the problem with human beings as we tend to oscillate between boredom and anxiety.

But there is this state beyond, and you know it when you're there.

I feel it sometimes when I give my talks.

I know you feel it when you sing your favorite songs, when you have.

When you make love with somebody you really have chemistry with, you're in flow.

Playing that instrument lose all sense of self, all sense of time.

Everything is awesome.

You feel the pool now you feel the pull of purpose you tapped into your passion.

Flow is huge, so we can't build these tools.

We can't architect this future.

We can't envision all these possibilities unless we figure out howto harness our minds now.

Today psychology, technology, neurobiology and pharmacology, the four forces of ecstasy that are allowing us to look underneath the hood and figure out the cycles of flow.

How it works, get a better understanding of what the flow triggers and how we can optimize to have more flow more often, right?

The work of the neural hacker collective does a lot of this same research as well.

And the key idea, then, is if we could change our self systems from leaky buckets into chalices, how might we render ourselves hole?

And how might we render ourselves wholly and so this is what we can aspire to.