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YOUR FLOW STATE
SCORECARD IS
LOW
Zander will unpack the Scorecard results for you
THE FLOW AXIS
Your average score is LOW but nothing to worry about because, for most of us, it is difficult to identify when you enter in flow. So by reading this report you will learn more about flow to be able to start designing your life around flow, accomplishing ten times more in your career, make more money and have more fun in the process.
By using the analogy of entering in flow with the ability of making a spinning top stay upright you can see that you need a burst of energy from the top to create rotation and this is connected to movement. This initial spark is connected with divine forces of inspiration and we call it INSIGHT FLOW.
The opposite side of the spinning top is the MIND FLOW, which needs to be solid and have a sharp end to hold all the weight and allow a smooth spinning experience.
So the initial focus to improve flow is on the spinning top axis which is connected to activities that you perform without having to talk. The INSIGHT FLOW is all about the awareness that mind and body should be challenged together. Creating a routine to exercise or to develop a spiritual practice is a very powerful source of creativity at the office.
Engaging in movement is a flow primer and a part of the flow cycle where you relax your conscious mind redirecting your attention away from your challenge to let your subconscious work while you have fun.
If INSIGHT FLOW is connected with divine inspiration, MIND FLOW is grounded on learning and thinking.
MIND FLOW is about finding satisfaction while solving complex problems and thinking new ideas. You have the power to be highly focused if you are acting out of a powerful flow trigger called curiosity. When you are curious you don’t waste energy getting distracted or trying to focus because curiosity gives you focus for free and it can unfold into a passion.
So learning about flow itself is fundamental to give you awareness to recognise a flow experience and also create flow pockets by utilising flow primers, flow triggers and flow keepers to stay in flow for longer.
MIND FLOW is also about learning how to learn faster to increase the amount of information you can gain from the ever changing environment, technological developments and trends.
So, to have more flow in life we recommend you introduce a few selected activities in your life so you can pay attention to the process of entering and staying in flow. It is important to gamify the process to create the neuropathways of flow that will be reinforced when you trigger flow for cognitive performance.
The next step is to increase the Rev Up Flow while introducing activities that involve out loud communication in the form of CONNECT FLOW and EXPRESS FLOW.
All four flow styles are connected and you will benefit from improving their overall score. Read on to understand what flow really is and how to create flow pockets every day.
THE FLOW GOLDMINE
You are sitting on your own goldmine and striking gold from time to time, but you are usually digging for gold at the wrong spot as you don’t know about the best tools and the science to guide you on finding gold day in day out.
Most people have a very vague idea about flow, thinking that if they are doing something that is in line with their highest talent, they will be taking the path of least resistance, will perform well and will be trusted on delivering a high quality service while experiencing flow.
Although all of that is essential to enter in the zone, you need to understand that to flow more often and for longer you will have to push your skills to match a high challenge level in such a way that you will keep breaking your own records as you look for bigger challenges to be accomplished.
The goldmine map is all about creating a game to finding the optimum ratio between skill and challenge level so you stretch but don't snap.
DESIGN YOUR LIFE
AROUND FLOW
This assessment results will show you how to increase the incidence of flow during your working hours to boost your productivity by up to 500%.
Yes, this figure is incredibly high but it is the result of a 10-year study run by McKinsey & Company, which is the biggest Management Consulting company in the world, with revenue of US$10+billion, serving two-thirds of the Fortune 1000. They found out that:
“Top Executives Increase Productivity By Up To 500% When In Flow”
The best thing is that creativity is highly impacted by flow too and some studies indicate that it can be increased by 230 to 700%. Not bad, if you take into account that creativity is almost impossible to train and it is the most sought after skill in the market place.
PEAK PERFORMANCE
AND THE FLOW GAME
While in FLOW you Play a Game of doing something Difficult and Possible.
Your sense of time disappears.
You forget yourself.
You feel part of something larger.
YOUR HERO'S JOURNEY
The hero’s path is right in front of you. Understand what FLOW means and you will not need any reason or excuse to embark on your hero’s journey, just the call for adventure and the desire to have an extraordinary life.
You can step away from the perceived security of your life if you understand that entering the zone can ignite your curiosity and boost your creativity to invent a new life.
Discover your FLOW to embrace the unknown with the certainty that adversity will become the fuel to enter the altered state of consciousness behind most insights, breakthroughs and discoveries.
Wake up and live your best life while creating
FLOW pockets every day.
THE FLOW VILLAIN
Not knowing what makes you drop in FLOW and
ignoring the power of FLOW amplification
FLOW AMPLIFIES
- Productivity by 500% (McKinsey)
- Creativity by 400 to 700%
- Learning rates by 240 to 490%
- Motivation
- Cooperation and collaboration
- Meaning and purpose
10 CORE CHARACTERISTICS
OF A
FLOW
EXPERIENCE
Being able to notice when you drop in flow is essential to trigger more flow. When all of these phenomena show up together you are definitely in flow.
- Action & Awareness Merge
- Selflessness
- Timelessness
- Effortlessness
- Paradox of Control
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Intense Concentration
- Challenge/Skills Balance
- Clear Goals
- Immediate Feedback
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF FLOW
Flow is not just a mental state of consciousness. In flow we see a decrease in brain activity in the prefrontal cortex (transient hypofrontality) and, in flow, brainwaves shift from the high beta wave signature of normal, waking consciousness down to the slower waves of the alpha/theta borderline.
And your body releases the most powerful cocktail in you bloodstream that is a combination of norepinephrine, dopamine, endorphins, anandamide, serotonin and oxytocin.
UNPACKING THE FIRST TWO
BASIC
FLOW
STYLES
INSIGHT FLOW
Experience flow while active and quiet
INSIGHT FLOW is active and quiet which means that it is connected to performing an activity that involves your body and very little verbal communication.
It could manifest while finding the solution to the problem you've been working for days while walking to get your car or while taking a shower.
The INSIGHT FLOW is also linked to mastering the exercise of your choice that can go from radical sports to yoga, Tai Chi or even a wide variety of meditation styles.
Deliberate practice can free the monkey mind and liberate unconscious thinking while active. It can also be a fundamental piece of the puzzle in the flow cycle at the Release Phase.
A flow cycle has four phases and it starts with the struggle phase which might involve research, repetitive tasks, confusion and random sparks of inspiration. Then you have the release phase, where you take your mind out of the problem and rest your conscious mind while your unconscious is working. The release phase precedes a broad flow experience and it could be to engage on a practice of structured physical activity.
Another focus of INSIGHT FLOW is during religious and mystic practices which can trigger group flow and can extend to the act of voluntarily helping others which is one of the most powerful flow experiences that can last many days and it is called ‘helpers high’. Many volunteers travel great distances and endure hardship to find this unique and awe transforming experiences.
The wider dimension of Insight Flow is creating art in all its shapes and forms. Art combines powerful flow primers and flow triggers including the search for novelty which can be very addictive and liberating.
While connecting with art your actions and awareness merge, time disappears and your sense of self vanishes. You might feel guided or connected to a muse that makes the work effortless which boosts intrinsic motivation as you develop a powerful sense of control while you move forward on your creation.
The brain spends high amounts of energy to focus but when you are curious about your potential to create you get focused for free, which means that you can enter in the zone without having to force yourself to focus, and if you know how to harness your curiosity you will be creating and developing your passion, which is very different from the elusive ‘knowing what your passion is’.
There are three dimensions for Insight Flow to be expressed and they are Spiritual, Intellectual and Physical.
If you learn how to heighten the challenge and skill balance in the right way, you will be deliberately creating the circumstances to enter in the zone.
By learning how to gamify the process you will start expanding your experimentation and will create the ideal scenario for flow to manifest.
CREATE INSIGHT
MINI-FLOW CYCLES
Learn how to identify activities to expand your power as you choose mini-challenges that have four bout levels, which are Baby steps, Give it a go, Get Bold and Dare.
By choosing the right bout level you will be prompted to enter mini-flow cycles, and as you keep track of the results and notice how you react to flow primers, flow triggers and flow keepers, you will find your bespoke recipe for entering in flow in many areas.
MIND FLOW
Experience mental and quiet flow
MIND FLOW is mental and quiet which means that it is linked to performing an activity that involves intellectual pursuits in a solo pursuit.
It is comprised of high focus activities on the continuous loop of learning, improving and sharing. This style of flow is related to creativity, innovation and abstraction. Maybe you feel a deep connection to the world but lack more intense personal interaction as you live most of your days in your mind.
If you are more of a creative type you will understand the benefits of structuring your day around flow, creating discipline to avoid waiting for inspired moments or invoke your muse to help you develop your writing projects or artistic skills.
Flow can become more achievable if you plan to achieve it and create routines. Some of the primers and triggers that will help you on your quest for flow are the search for novelty and creativity that can build momentum and guide you towards transcendence.
A powerful flow trigger is curiosity and it can bring effortless focus to your life and your career without having to demand that your brain focuses on a certain project. When you add experimentation to the process you trigger the risk factor that can help you enormously to achieve flow. For example if you are curious about meditation practices and you decide to try some of them you will risk failure, boredom and wasting time, so if on top of that you decide to spend money to learn you will become even more focused because not wasting money will raise your interest in succeeding and enhance flow.
While developing your artistic self to find out what is a suitable way to express yourself artistically you will have to choose something almost randomly to try, persist for a while and struggle to get going, only to see your actions and awareness merge, time disappear and your sense of self vanish. You might feel guided while drawing or playing a song or connected to a muse if you decide to write fiction or non-fiction alike.
You will notice that you will start developing intense concentration which will lead to flow and your creativity will start bringing lateral thinking to express ideas in a new way. It will all make so much sense if you persist and take the time to select the good ideas amongst all that pour out from your mind.
Planing and solving work related problems can trigger flow if you try to raise your game and if there is a lot at stake. Time pressure can also be beneficial because it drives free focus to the task at hand until completion. Imposed focus at work can be very taxing but when you are working for a higher cause you develop focus for free which makes the work effortless. Having autonomy at work is a flow trigger that can boosts intrinsic motivation as you develop a powerful sense of control and feel confident to take the risks necessary to see your projects blossom.
Not surprising is the fact that playing games can make you enter in the zone quite quickly. It can function as a scape from the reality but it represents life itself as we are constantly playing games as we assume different personas depending on the environment we are in. Children entertain themselves with games and gamification is becoming the science behind motivation to boost grades at school and performance at work all over the world. So seeing the world as a playground can help you become more adventurous while helping others develop a more pro-active personality to create a new game for themselves instead of only watching movies or playing pre-loaded games in their spare time.
MIND FLOW activities are also divided in three dimensions that are Spiritual, Intellectual and Physical.
CREATE MIND
MINI-FLOW CYCLES
Learn how to identify activities to expand your power as you choose mini-challenges that have four bout levels, which are Baby steps, Give it a go, Get Bold and Dare.
By choosing the right bout level you will be prompted to enter mini-flow cycles, and as you keep track of the results and notice how you react to flow primers, flow triggers and flow keepers, you will find your bespoke recipe for entering in flow in many areas.
THE OTHER TWO
BASIC FLOW STYLES ARE:
CONNECT FLOW
EXPRESS
FLOW
There are many other FLOW styles to explore to enter in the zone, so after understanding about INSIGHT FLOW your would start finding out more about FLOW itself and would embark on learning about the MIND FLOW.
MIND FLOW is mental and quiet which means that it is linked to performing an activity that involves intellectual pursuits in a solo pursuit.
Then you expand your FLOW world with CONNECT FLOW and EXPRESS FLOW. They require further explanation as they encompass a big range of activities to enter in the zone. Their super concise description is:
CONNECT FLOW is mental and loud, which means that it is linked to performing an activity that involves intellectual pursuits with full-on communication and feedback. Then you can share FLOW by performing many activities in the EXPRESS FLOW style.
EXPRESS FLOW is active and loud which means that it is connected to performing an activity that involves your body, full-on communication and immediate feedback.
So, in a nutshell these are the four basic flow styles and there are many primers, triggers and stabilisers to bring more FLOW to your life.
FLOW BOOSTERS
Your spinning top cannot spin floating in the air, if you want to manifest the impossible in your world. You need to create a solid surface to generate more flow in your life.
This surface will be strong and polished when you learn how to create the HOLIDAY FLOW and the FORFEIT FLOW.
The following dimensions to keep you inspired are formed out of the TORUS FLOW and they are the GIFTED FLOW, the LEGACY FLOW and the GOLD FLOW STANDARD.
So get ready to achieve your dreams as you learn how to create FLOW pockets every day.
FLOW MAGNIFICATION
Now it is time to mention the power of the Wealth Dynamics system when you try to enter the zone because each profile has a different set of motivators to unlock flow.
The Wealth Dynamics profile is an excellent guide to help you stop wasting your energy on performing activities that are not connected to your path of least resistance. When you get clear about your value and the best ways to leverage it, you will want to do something a little bit difficult to raise your standards, develop yourself and enter the zone.
This clarity will help you decide on how to prepare your day to deliberately create flow pockets. If you design your day around flow you will be able to enter a flow bubble and stay in flow the whole day and if you find the flow architecture to implement the flow primers, flow triggers and flow keepers you might be able to stay several days in flow and experience what a flow capsule is.
It’s all within your reach if you learn how to observe and track your flow moments while introducing innovation into your life as you see serendipity happening over and over again, just to reassure you that you are in the right track.
Life is a miracle and if you realise that you can play multiple games, you will be able to enjoy the challenges instead of getting stressed out about them.
It’s all about magnifying your powers to enter the infinite game.
So, will you dare to embark on an unforgettable journey and become your own hero?
NEXT STEPS TO FLOW
Thank you for taking the time to take the 'Are You Ready to Unlock Your Flow State?' Scorecard assessment and read this report.
Now it is time to understand and harness your power to plan your day around flow to have much more energy and focus to accomplish the impossible. As you start to identify those magic moments, you will start to track them more vividly and will make them happen on a daily basis.
FREE DEBRIEF
Understand how to start entering in deep flow while connecting to your Wealth Dynamics profile.
Book your Free Debrief session with Zander today.
The debrief is valued at $170 but as you are one of the very first to join the Beta Version it will be entirely Free. During this 30 to 45 minute session you will clarify what is your best path to enter in flow. Available for the first 30 bookings.
PILOT PROGRAMME
The Discover your Flow State Scorecard test focuses on identifying the best activities, from a range of 300+ primary activities, that can make you drop in flow.
You will experiment entering in flow while introducing flow primers, flow triggers and flow keepers to find your bespoke flow pathway that can support new flow experiences.
With our ‘Enter the Flow State When Reading’ 5-week Programme (Beta version) you will be able to use gamification to build a reliable framework not only to work in flow but also to create flow during your leisure time and explore exciting new experiences to ignite your creativity.
Join the ‘Enter the Flow State When Reading’ programme to be able to play a flow game at its highest level and it will transform your business and your life while giving you lots of energy all the time.
If you are a coach or consultant you will also learn invaluable information that you can teach to your clients and team members to improve their creativity and productivity.
Click below to learn more about the programme.
Humans In Flow is Europe’s leading cognitive peak performance coaching and consulting company, founded by Innovator and Author, Zander Garcez.
The core principle behind Humans In Flow is that humans are built to overcome big challenges, achieve their greatest dreams and accessing the state of flow is evolution’s solution for natural selection. We believe that if you learn how to challenge yourself in a way that will open the gateway to a flow filled life you will find more pleasure while working and will achieve what was once an impossible dream.
We work in partnership with the Entrepreneurs Institute which is the world’s leading EdTech group listed in the New York Stock Exchange, with a community of over 500,000 entrepreneurs around the world. It was founded by Futurist, Social Entrepreneur & New York Times Bestselling Author, Roger James Hamilton.
Find out more about Zander at the GeniusU platform:
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CONNECT WITH ZANDER
Once you have completed the 'Enter the Flow State When Reading' programme, consider joining us as a Humans In Flow Consultant to guide others through their Flow State quest or integrate flow principles with your own training and coaching by joining our Entrepreneurs Institute Partner Pathway.
Please send an email to Zander to book a discovery session with him or one of our Flow Igniters and discuss the best options available to you.
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