This is one of the reasons action adventure sport athletes had such an advantage because right immediate feedback either set your ski edge on that hill or you're on a face for death.

Slide to the bottom like war, right?

It's immediate feedback.

So in writing what I discovered, for example, is editors don't do a whole hell of a lot of editing.

They're really busy.

So you get him once, twice.

You've written books.

You know what it's like, right?

They jump in five months, and then they give you some notes and you see him again in five months.

Maybe, you know what I mean.

It's not what you need.

So I have, um, I have a guy in my staff, Michael who you've met, who's my editor.

And he reads almost everything I've wrote, usually two or three times a week on Dhe.

He gives me what I call the minimal feedback for flow, so I have discovered for me and my writing.

So my watch words are never boring, never confusing and never arrogant.

And I've discovered, by the way, when I make certain kinds of errors For example, if my writing is really fancy, amusing, lots of fancy language in my writing, usually what that means is that would be an example of my writing is arrogant, right?

I'm using, And what that means is, I haven't done enough homework haven't done enough research, so I'm trying to cover up what is a lack of knowledge with fancy writing.

Sometimes I don't even notice.

I don't know that I haven't done enough research.

I only know it when the fancy writing shows up, but I have to usually have somebody pointed out to me.

So I have figured out that my from my writer, the minimal feedback airflow that I need.

Is it boring?

Is it arrogant or is it confusing?

And so every couple of days, Michael Reed's whatever it is that I'm working on a answers those questions for me, that's the minimal feedback flow.

So I tell people is in your work situations.

Obviously you can't get that kind of feedback from Boss is very often people are too busy.

Find a feedback buddy, find somebody to work with in your life.

Who could give you that kind of immediate feedback?

Because if it's quarterly reviews or yearly reviews.

It's not enough to generate for you want to really shrink down those feedback cycles as much as possible.

I'm a big believer in exercise.

I exercise at least six days a week and usually for a couple of hours minimum, like I'll go for an hour long hike with my dogs in the morning that I'll go to the gym in the afternoon or twice a week for me.

I need action sports.

I have to hurl myself that mountains and high speeds I have.

So there's a recovery period.

Recovery is really important for flow, so I have a inference on in my house.

They use on di dio box breathing every every day in the infrared sauna.

One is blamed box by box.

Breathing is just It's a kind of mindfulness.

It's called box breathing because there's four sides to it, so you inhale it, states five seconds.

Inhale for five seconds.

Hold it for five seconds, exhale for five seconds, hold it for five seconds in box breathing, and then you do it for six seconds in seven seconds.

And the reason I find box breathing with the Navy seals train the mind for this technique they use.

And the reason is not only incident.

Good.

So any kind of mindfulness training is training focus.

So it's all gonna help with flow, right?

All meditation training is gonna help Dr Flow.

In the end, I like box breathing because it's two things.

So when you exhale all the air from your lungs and you hold your breath, which is what you do on one side of that off the box, right, you exhale and then you hold your breath.

So if you do that for over seven seconds, for most people depends how good their lungs are automatically.

This is a fight or flight response, but your brain goes.

Holy crap.

There's no air in your lungs.

Panic, and what you have to do is you have to learn to focus through the panic, right and which is one of you, especially in action sports or some of the martial arts, like learning to focus through the panic.

It's how you achieve flow.

It's a really good flow skill, and it also so you're doubly down, regulated in the nervous system of box breathing.

The other thing is to complicate enough system that if you're even if you hate meditation and mindfulness, anybody can learn to do it because there's enough going on challenge that right?

So I a big believer in that and the last thing I do that the less kind of float if I'm gonna give you guys so another flows.

Triggers is creativity.

Flow not only amplifies creativity, creativity triggers flowing.

What really triggers float is pattern recognition, linking of ideas together.

Okay, so if you want to create a pattern recognition, actually, I have to feed the brain ideas.

And the problem of the modern world is that most of us tend to specialize, And when you specialize, right, the ideas you're getting, there's not enough distance between the incoming ideas and older ideas to create pattern recognition.

So I tell people people who are really interested in this should read 25 to 50 pages a day, preferably in a book, and there are reasons I'm not gonna go into it here but nonfiction outside your core area in something that you're curious about and just interested about.

What you're doing is you're loading the pattern recognition system.

You're giving yourself kind of the basic necessities for pattern recognition.

And if you don't do that, you can't make those connections.

So you're denying yourself someone flow that you can have.