I have over a dozen drafts sitting in my Medium account, and yet not a single one of them has been published. I imagined my first post to be some perfect-masterpiece, because of course we all have a reputation to uphold, amirite?
But as I’m feeling pretty good right now, I thought what better time to share a quick post on how to get into what’s called a flow-state—that is—how to feel like a total badass and get a lot done simultaneously.
No book on Zen, meditation or magic-mushrooms needed (though drugs are involved, the helpful kind though).
For me, feeling great and being highly effective at the same time seem to be complementary to one another, and amplify the overall effect. It’s like being overly-happy: everything in general seems to be more enjoyable. The opposite is true too—being in one of those moods—where everything and everyone may as well go die in a hole.
Let me get to the point
Here’s my ‘one simple trick’ to getting in the zone. Okay, I apologise for using that line, it was low of me.
The recipe:
- A glass of (quality) red-wine.
- A baby aspirin or two.
- A double-dose of Armodafinil.
- A raw-shot of Brain Octane.
- Boom + Speed-up for immersing sound.
- 20 jumping-jacks to get your blood flowing!
- Focus to block distractions.
The above is daily-concoction that will have you feeling amazing and focusing like you've literally got tunnel-vision.
Though this is only a piece to the puzzle of a much longer post, I average about 14-hours @ 80% productivity 7-days a week at our digital agency, as a result of this so called recipe (here’s to the 80-hour-work-week-ers). I say this for a reason none other than to prove that it fucking works—it’s not some gimmick.
Just give it a shot, see how you feel and gauge the results you get from it. You never know, it might just change your life. Or at the least, give you an edge over others.
P.s. do I think taking Nootropics is cheating?
And if it were, the end results is that I have an advantage over you. So stop whining and start living a little, because you're not going to be in your grave regretting taking something that gets you ahead in life.
Here’s to your hard work :-)
