WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.800 This week, today, is our second session of our two-part series on Deep Work. 2 00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:10.000 Again, that concept is based on Cal Newport's book, Deep Work. 3 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.600 Brilliant, if you wouldn't mind popping that in the chat for anyone who didn't get the link last week for that book. 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.400 It's a fantastic read if you haven't read it yet. 5 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:27.200 So again, Deep Work is a superpower that will position you to be the master of your craft and your contribution to your organization. 6 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:34.400 So today's pro tip, we are going to go over some different Deep Work modalities today. 7 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:41.000 However, I am going to challenge you to stick with practicing the four-hour Deep Work slot. 8 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:48.000 Practice that and practice that because remember, we are actually rewiring our brain and working our brain out as a muscle. 9 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.600 So if you cannot even hit the one-hour mark, that is fine. 10 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:53.300 You're in great company. 11 00:00:53.300 --> 00:00:58.900 Keep practicing it, though, because we're actually teaching our brain to think from a deeper level than we typically do. 12 00:00:58.900 --> 00:01:01.300 So it's going to take practice and repetition. 13 00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:02.900 So don't take the shortcut. 14 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:08.100 Have any of you taken a shortcut and you realized, that's not really a shortcut. 15 00:01:08.100 --> 00:01:10.900 I think it was a shortcut, but it actually became a long cut. 16 00:01:10.900 --> 00:01:13.200 Wave at me if anyone's taken a shortcut that wasn't. 17 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:20.600 Okay, so don't be tempted to jump into a new work modality when you haven't gotten comfortable in the first one as we're moving ahead today. 18 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:24.500 Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and give a recap on last week's session. 19 00:01:24.500 --> 00:01:31.100 I'm going to share a slide here of the three different types of work focuses. 20 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:33.300 Let me go ahead and make that full screen. 21 00:01:33.300 --> 00:01:37.600 Oops. Are we sharing? Everyone can see it? Thumbs up? Are we good? Mountain Cat? 22 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:45.600 Okay, so the first type of Deep Work, let me move my zoom controls here, is the Mountain Cabin Work is how we describe it. 23 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:49.100 So that is Deep Work, the four-hour segment we were talking about. 24 00:01:49.100 --> 00:01:53.100 So this is typically something that we do when we're focusing on something new. 25 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:59.100 We're creating a new system or we're optimizing a system that currently exists, but we're looking at it from a new perspective. 26 00:01:59.100 --> 00:02:06.100 We're thinking really deeply about something. Maybe we're solving a problem that we've never solved before or something, 27 00:02:06.100 --> 00:02:14.000 you know, that has been continuing in the organization that really requires a different lens or an innovative thought to process how to solve that. 28 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:23.000 So that typically is going to be our four-hour Mountain Cabin Mode. The other mode is the Coffee Shop Mode. 29 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:29.000 So this is where we do our focused work. These are usually shorter stints, about two hours long. 30 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:35.000 You're going to be focusing on current work. You're going to be getting a lot done, really focusing on specific projects. 31 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.000 You're going to theme things. You're going to batch things. 32 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:47.000 Maybe it's checking a bunch of emails or responding to customer service requests or scheduling all the social media posts out or designing all the social media posts. 33 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:55.000 You're batching tasks together that are similar that you can really just break a whole, get on a rhythm and, you know, get a whole bunch of tasks out of the way. 34 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:58.000 And then the last mode is the Storefront Mode. 35 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:05.000 So that is kind of an all-hands-on-deck general work mode where you can have incoming communications from your team. 36 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:08.000 Maybe you're checking Slack here. Maybe you're writing emails. 37 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.000 There's a lot of interruption. So it's going to be a really high switching cost. 38 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:16.000 So your level of productivity will be more limited in this way. 39 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.000 But it is a work method that we all need to do at least a few times a week. 40 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:26.000 So collaboration, serving others, catching up or unexpected work. 41 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.000 If you're preparing for a conference or an event and it's an all-hands-on-deck moment, we're going to be in Storefront Mode. 42 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:34.000 So let me know if you have any questions in the chat. 43 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.000 I'm going to give it back to Dion for some more recap from last week. 44 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.000 And if you need any clarification, let us know. All right, Dion, over to you. 45 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:47.000 Thank you, Dia. That's wonderful. I appreciate that. 46 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:54.000 You know, this is such a key capability. As we keep saying, this is your new superpower. 47 00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:05.000 And developing this superpower really puts you in a very unique position because it gives you a unique advantage in your industry. 48 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:14.000 And this unique advantage is it gives you time to work on your career, work on your knowledge, work on the business rather than in it. 49 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:18.000 So when we work in it, we call that focused work that tend to be shorter. 50 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.000 So if you're just doing uninterrupted work, working on current work, that is focused work. 51 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.000 Deep work is when you're doing something new. You're making a contribution. You're exploring something. 52 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.000 You're solving something. You're writing a book. You're doing something new. 53 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.000 You're contributing. You're moving your career and your contribution to the organization forward. 54 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:42.000 So to do that, we have to develop new muscle memory. 55 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:47.000 So that ability to concentrate, we use the example that it's like being in a gym. 56 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:53.000 The first time you go to the gym, you don't just pick up the heaviest weights and try to work out for four hours straight. 57 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:59.000 You go and you build it up gradually. This is exactly how your mind works. 58 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.200 Experts say that for a newbie or a novice in deep work, typically that kind of concentrated 59 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:14.160 focused work, sorry, deep work can last for about an hour. And most people would find that pretty, 60 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:18.720 you know, stressful. So if you did an hour and said, okay, I maxed out, that's pretty normal. 61 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:24.240 If you're going past the one hour, you're hitting the two hour, the objective is over a period of 62 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:29.760 months, even over a period of a year, keep practicing, and you'll find that your mind 63 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:34.480 will get better and better. And you'll be able to do longer and longer deep work sessions. And we 64 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:41.120 want, we keep giving you the four hour target, because at that point, you're starting to master 65 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:48.640 the deep work, you've developed new muscle memory or working memory. You know, your brain has a way 66 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.640 of mapping the way you work, even the way you answer an email, the way you call it up, the way 67 00:05:54.640 --> 00:06:01.200 you start an email, your brain has a map for all the different tasks you have. Our job is to disrupt 68 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:07.600 that map and give you a new map so that you can do deep work. So this is really important. We've 69 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:16.640 talked also a lot about the switching costs, why you feel tired at the end of the day is because 70 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:23.840 there's been a cognitive drain, a drain on your brain, in which you have constantly switched, 71 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:28.880 because it takes 20 to 40 minutes to switch between, you know, doing something on a focused 72 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:34.960 basis. And it also weakens your ability to focus. So it's not, it takes 20 to 40 minutes to switch 73 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:39.280 in the beginning of the day, by the end of the day, I don't know if you ever got there that 74 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:43.760 you're sitting staring at the screen at the end of the day, and your brain literally will not switch 75 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:49.040 into that mode. Anybody had that experience? Like, have I just gone dumb or what? You know, that feeling 76 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:54.720 is, yeah, that feeling is you, you've reached your, you've drained your brain from so much 77 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:00.720 cognitive switching. And so you've, so you've got this mental fatigue. And that mental fatigue, 78 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:05.520 literally, your brain just says, enough already timeout, I'm not switching to another task. 79 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:10.560 And so the best thing is just to finish what you were doing. Go back to your last task, your brain 80 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:16.480 is probably a little more cooperative. So we talked also a lot about aligning your highest 81 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:22.560 energy level of the day to the things that matter most. So if you're freshest in the morning, that's 82 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:29.760 not the time to do email. As a rule of thumb, all the top experts will tell you, do not do your email 83 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:34.480 when you wake up, don't do the first thing you do, don't let that be your first task of the day, 84 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:39.120 all of that, because what will happen is you'll read something in your email, and it will send 85 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:44.960 you down a pathway. And that will often destroy your plan that you had for the day. So if you plan 86 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:50.800 to do a deep work session, you know, reading your email is a sure way of getting that deep way, 87 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.000 deep session canceled, because it'll take, you know, there'll be 10 things, and your mind will 88 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:02.320 connect into those things. And now the switching costs will be so much higher. So the email, 89 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:08.320 Slack, all those sort of communication technologies, which are all great, 90 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:14.800 but as a first order of the day, they're terrible for switching costs, because you're literally 91 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:20.000 switching between so many ideas and concepts. So it puts you into general mode, before you 92 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:25.280 even have a chance to do focused or even deep work. So be very aware of the switching costs, 93 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:31.520 and be kind to your mind and try to minimize switching costs. And if you do do general work, 94 00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:36.159 batch similar tasks together to minimize switching costs, your brain doesn't switch when the things 95 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:40.720 are very similar. So if you're answering a lot of customer service on the same product, 96 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:46.480 that typically has a very low switching cost between the customers, if they're all asking 97 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.680 roughly the same questions. But to go from customer service to accounting, to, you know, 98 00:08:51.680 --> 00:08:56.720 ordering stuff that you need for your office to you're trying to write a chapter of your book, 99 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:02.160 there will be four very brutal switching costs. And we talked a lot about for you to become a 100 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:09.600 deep work professional, really is this an ability to learn hard things quickly, and what it's going 101 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:14.640 to take for you to do that. And it really is a new lifestyle. It's a new way of thinking about 102 00:09:14.640 --> 00:09:20.160 yourself. It's a new way of thinking about your career. And it's a power tool, it's the 103 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:24.800 it's the anchor tenant, if you like, you know, when when you build a strip mall, one of the first 104 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:30.080 thing a real estate developer does, if they go to strip mall, the first thing is they find an 105 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:37.600 anchor tenant. So they say, hey, we have a Publix or a Kroger, I don't know which big, you know, 106 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:43.280 supermarket type people, you know, wherever it is, Walmart, we have a anchor tenant. And then around 107 00:09:43.280 --> 00:09:48.640 that we get the nail salon and all the other little things. It's a little like that deep work needs to 108 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:55.200 be the anchor tenant of your career needs to be the thing that really moves you forward. So if 109 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:59.760 you're going to commit to anything in the things we're talking about over the next few months, 110 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.480 focus on this, that this is your anchor tenant. 111 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:08.000 So with all that said, I wanted to take a minute 112 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:13.000 and soften the edges a little bit around the idea 113 00:10:13.160 --> 00:10:16.720 that it has to be four hours deep work. 114 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.360 Ultimately, we'd like you to be able to pull that off. 115 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.940 But what you'll find for many of you 116 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:25.500 is that there are actually different types 117 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:28.920 or different modes or modalities. 118 00:10:28.920 --> 00:10:30.720 These different modes all have, you know, 119 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.800 a little more of a fancy name 120 00:10:32.800 --> 00:10:35.840 and I'll try to make them simple as we go through them. 121 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.000 But actually different leaders over time 122 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.680 have demonstrated, you know, 123 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:44.160 different types of these deep work. 124 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:46.400 So for instance, I'm gonna share with you 125 00:10:46.400 --> 00:10:49.960 four different modalities and I'm giving each one 126 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:53.320 a nickname so they're easier to remember. 127 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.560 And these are a little bit internal to Brilliant. 128 00:10:56.560 --> 00:10:59.560 So I think you'll follow them all, the nicknames. 129 00:10:59.560 --> 00:11:01.720 So the first one, the first mode 130 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:05.120 is called the monastic mode. 131 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.960 And it's, think of seclusion. 132 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.840 The mountain cabin idea is a good example of this. 133 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:13.800 So this is like, think of a monastery, right? 134 00:11:13.800 --> 00:11:17.800 Imagine going away to a monastery for days on end 135 00:11:17.800 --> 00:11:18.800 to get some work done. 136 00:11:18.800 --> 00:11:21.040 Some of you might've done this, you know, 137 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:23.800 to go, you know, just to get your head clear 138 00:11:23.800 --> 00:11:26.280 or you've gone away for a while. 139 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.760 So this seclusion mode is you just get away from the office, 140 00:11:29.760 --> 00:11:34.200 you get away from any ability to be contacted. 141 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.880 And so we have, you know, 142 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:40.840 somebody in our own organization who you may know, 143 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:44.240 Graham Cook, who is the founder of Brilliant. 144 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.800 And this is his mode. 145 00:11:45.800 --> 00:11:50.440 He loves this monastic mode of thinking and of working. 146 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:53.360 And so the nickname of this mode is the Graham mode. 147 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:54.920 This is a Graham mode. 148 00:11:55.920 --> 00:11:57.360 You just separate yourself out. 149 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:58.200 You have teams, 150 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:00.880 you have people who run the organization for you, 151 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:04.640 and you set up your whole working methodology 152 00:12:04.640 --> 00:12:05.720 to free you up. 153 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.600 So Graham can be an author, a researcher. 154 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:09.440 So it allows him. 155 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.680 So this is typical for authors and researchers to do this, 156 00:12:12.680 --> 00:12:14.840 to have a team that separates them. 157 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:17.000 So I'm not just talking about going away for a while 158 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.200 and coming back to your business. 159 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.000 I'm meaning you're organizing your whole business 160 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.440 so that you can permanently be in this monastic mode. 161 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.280 So that's kind of an extreme that's very rare, 162 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:29.640 I suspect on this call for anyone. 163 00:12:29.640 --> 00:12:34.360 The next mode is called bimodal, B-I-M-O-D-A-L, bimodal. 164 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.080 Think of it as periodic. 165 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:40.520 So periodic is every now and again, I take time off. 166 00:12:40.520 --> 00:12:44.560 So you dedicate some amount of stretch of time, 167 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:46.840 maybe a week or three or four days. 168 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:49.720 Maybe you go, you know, once a month, 169 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:51.600 you go away for three days. 170 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:55.160 Bill Gates used this methodology for two weeks every year. 171 00:12:55.160 --> 00:12:58.400 Bill Gates just went away and all he did was think, 172 00:12:58.400 --> 00:13:00.520 worked on the business, not in it. 173 00:13:00.520 --> 00:13:02.280 And he either wrote or he thought, 174 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:03.880 or he came up with new ideas. 175 00:13:03.880 --> 00:13:05.600 Steve Jobs did this. 176 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:09.440 So this typically are, you know, high powered leaders, 177 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.640 thought leaders, academics, consultants do a lot of this. 178 00:13:13.640 --> 00:13:16.920 So I nicknamed this Bill mode as in Bill Gates. 179 00:13:16.920 --> 00:13:19.000 So we've got Graham mode, we've got Bill mode. 180 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:23.840 So Bill mode is go away, you know, for two weeks, once a year, 181 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.720 or go away for two days, you know, once a quarter, 182 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:29.920 or that kind of thing where you just do concentrated deep work. 183 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:33.200 I can tell you though, 184 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.920 if you haven't learned to do deep work as a way of, 185 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:40.240 as a natural habit, going away won't make any difference. 186 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:41.680 You'll just go away and get distracted 187 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:44.400 and get really good at your latest game score. 188 00:13:44.400 --> 00:13:48.920 So you'll get your high points and break your record. 189 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:50.520 That's about what will happen. 190 00:13:50.520 --> 00:13:52.160 And you'll find yourself being very distracted 191 00:13:52.160 --> 00:13:54.680 with shallow work, if shallow work's all you know. 192 00:13:54.680 --> 00:13:57.680 But I'm going to give you for completeness all four. 193 00:13:57.680 --> 00:14:00.960 The third one, which is the one we'd really, you know, 194 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:02.560 periodic can work for some of you. 195 00:14:02.560 --> 00:14:05.760 Hey, one morning a week, I want to do this. 196 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:07.600 That's still bimodal mode. 197 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.280 Number three, the rhythmic or daily mode. 198 00:14:11.280 --> 00:14:14.040 So this is an everyday thing. 199 00:14:14.040 --> 00:14:17.400 So maybe you want to put two hours aside every day 200 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:18.840 to do deep work. 201 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:21.360 And you don't, you know, you don't break the chain. 202 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:25.000 Jerry Seinfeld used this method. 203 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.160 It was very, very popular for him. 204 00:14:27.160 --> 00:14:28.840 So for instance, my wife, Bridget, 205 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.400 wanted to write her book on parenting. 206 00:14:31.400 --> 00:14:33.520 And so she got up every morning 207 00:14:33.520 --> 00:14:36.880 and from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m., 208 00:14:36.880 --> 00:14:38.640 she just wrote every single day. 209 00:14:38.640 --> 00:14:40.640 And she did it for, I think, four months 210 00:14:40.640 --> 00:14:42.040 and the book was written. 211 00:14:42.040 --> 00:14:45.200 So, you know, that would be a perfect example. 212 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:47.200 So we'll call that the Jerry mode, 213 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.160 as in Jerry Seinfeld mode. 214 00:14:49.160 --> 00:14:51.800 And so in the Jerry mode, 215 00:14:51.800 --> 00:14:55.800 that is where you are doing something every single day. 216 00:14:55.800 --> 00:14:57.080 And the last method, 217 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.160 which I'm almost hesitant to tell you about 218 00:14:59.160 --> 00:15:00.560 because a lot of people... 219 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.560 want to try it. And it is by far the hardest and most advanced of the methods. 220 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.800 And it's called the ad hoc or journalistic method. 221 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:12.840 And this is you fitting in deep work on the fly, super flexible. 222 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:15.880 We're going to, you know, we're going to trip. I fit in an hour there, 223 00:15:15.880 --> 00:15:17.680 half an hour there, two hours there. 224 00:15:18.680 --> 00:15:20.080 You can pull this off. 225 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.000 If you've got your ability to get into deep work in under 10 minutes, 226 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:24.760 for most people, 227 00:15:24.760 --> 00:15:28.560 that's a 40 minute process to get into that very deep work state. 228 00:15:28.920 --> 00:15:31.840 But if you can get into that deep work state in 10 minutes or less, 229 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:34.080 and you know, 230 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:38.000 one of the board members at Brilliant called Glenn Hobbs is the best guy I know 231 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.720 does this and he can switch and he runs a very large team and he can, 232 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:45.920 he can get down into that deep work session quickly and he steals half an hour 233 00:15:45.920 --> 00:15:47.880 there and two hours there and all the rest. 234 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:52.520 So I would strongly suggest you don't try this method 235 00:15:52.560 --> 00:15:54.640 unless you, you know, you, 236 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:58.320 if you can do a four hour deep work session and you can make that work on a 237 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.680 fairly regular basis, then maybe you can try this. 238 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:04.640 But this is typical of people who are on the fly, 239 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:09.080 who are traveling a lot or who don't have a regular schedule and need 240 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:12.400 maximum flexibility to make it work. 241 00:16:12.760 --> 00:16:17.160 So those are the four methods. So just again, they are, 242 00:16:17.160 --> 00:16:21.520 so the seclusion method where you really organize your entire 243 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:26.320 organization around your ability to have minimal impact on the business side of 244 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.160 what you're doing. 245 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:31.960 The periodic method where you're setting it up once a week or once a year, 246 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:32.800 once a month, 247 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.200 the daily method where you're setting up daily time aside and the ad hoc as you 248 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:39.360 find time method. 249 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:43.280 And you can see very quickly which ones are those. 250 00:16:43.680 --> 00:16:48.200 I hope that's helpful to what we're trying to tell you is not that we don't want 251 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.280 to make it so rigid that if you can't pull off four hours of deep work, 252 00:16:51.280 --> 00:16:54.320 there's something wrong with you. That's not, or you, if you're, 253 00:16:54.400 --> 00:16:57.200 if your job just doesn't allow that, then we, 254 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:00.400 we understand there's a broad range of, of, 255 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:03.200 of people who are on the call who are listening to this. 256 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.680 So here's what I want to say about deep work. 257 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.880 So inspiration is not a deep work mode. 258 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.319 And I say that because, you know, the typical like authors, I just didn't feel it. 259 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:20.359 I wasn't inspired to write and it turns out you don't have to be inspired to 260 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:23.200 write. There is no such thing as writer's block. 261 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:26.960 It's just, you've developed a bad work mode. That's all that is. And, 262 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:30.480 and there's a whole category of stuff I could say about all this. 263 00:17:30.840 --> 00:17:34.600 There is no writer's block. It's just that, you know what, 264 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.120 what we say is, you know, great. You must have, 265 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:42.480 you must think like a great creative thinker like an artist, 266 00:17:42.760 --> 00:17:44.240 but you must work like an accountant. 267 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.520 So you have to have discipline and structure and count. 268 00:17:48.520 --> 00:17:53.680 And so when you develop a rhythm to your week, a rhythm to your work, 269 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:59.040 you'll find that the writer's block thing is just that you didn't prepare for 270 00:17:59.040 --> 00:18:02.880 the session. Well, so that's what I'm getting to. And the last part of this is, 271 00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:08.000 so we talked before about developing your, 272 00:18:08.600 --> 00:18:12.800 you know, developing a priming ritual, 273 00:18:13.080 --> 00:18:15.840 which is just fancy talk for saying you should prepare well. 274 00:18:16.320 --> 00:18:20.000 So priming ritual means you develop a ritual and by ritual, 275 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:24.120 we mean like a habit. Like, you know, when I sit down, I cleared all the papers, 276 00:18:24.120 --> 00:18:25.600 anything that can distract me. 277 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:29.760 You don't want to see bills lying face up on your desk that you could glance at 278 00:18:29.760 --> 00:18:33.800 and get distracted by. So you pack it, package everything away. 279 00:18:34.080 --> 00:18:36.920 You clear your desk. So your brain has place to think. 280 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:42.480 You're switching off your email. You've got your flask of coffee ready. 281 00:18:42.600 --> 00:18:45.280 You've got your snacks ready. You've thought about, you know, 282 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:48.680 on the hour or every hour and a half, I want to take a walk in the neighborhood. 283 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.000 I want to keep thinking about this. I don't want to meet anyone. 284 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.480 So I'm going this route. This is the way I'm going to go. So, and so on. 285 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:59.240 So as part of thinking about developing this priming 286 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:04.120 ritual, here's the key guys though. If you get the priming ritual, right, 287 00:19:04.280 --> 00:19:07.840 you'll always do deep work. If you don't get the priming ritual, right, 288 00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:11.960 you'll never do deep work or rarely because you'll see an email, 289 00:19:12.080 --> 00:19:16.320 you'll see a text and your brain will switch into that mode and off it will go. 290 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:21.200 So if you can do a priming ritual either before, you know, 291 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.040 your half an hour before you start, 292 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:24.880 or if you're going to do one first thing in the morning, 293 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:28.400 do the priming ritual the day before, go to your desk, set it up, 294 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:30.440 have the coffee pot ready, have your snacks ready, 295 00:19:30.600 --> 00:19:33.640 have everything you could possibly have to be comfortable, 296 00:19:34.120 --> 00:19:35.520 to be kind to your mind, 297 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:38.800 get rid of every distraction that you think will happen. 298 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:41.960 If you've got a lot of stuff written on your whiteboard, clear the whiteboard, 299 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:45.440 you know, I'm a whiteboard person. Anyone who knows, or, you know, 300 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.200 my office has always got scribbles and we're taking photos of my whiteboard 301 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.000 because I love, I love to visually see what I'm doing. 302 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:55.840 So if you're that kind of person, or if you don't want to, you know, 303 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.960 get rid of what's on your whiteboard, put a curtain or put a sheet over it, 304 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:00.280 clear. 305 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.320 all the distractions. Develop this priming ritual. So I want to give you four questions 306 00:20:05.040 --> 00:20:12.960 you can ask yourself to help you develop a very powerful priming ritual. So question number one, 307 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:19.680 where will I work and for how long? That's one question. Where will I work and for how long? 308 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:27.280 Be really specific. No open-ended sessions, right? So here you want to be really clear 309 00:20:27.280 --> 00:20:32.880 about where you want to work. I'm going to work on Tuesday mornings from 7 until 11, 310 00:20:33.760 --> 00:20:38.560 every Tuesday morning. And if I can't do it on Tuesday, I'm doing it on Saturday morning 311 00:20:38.560 --> 00:20:44.880 from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., whatever. So you have not just your plan, but your fallback plan if 312 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.880 against your own, because sometimes, you know, your boss calls or you need something or something 313 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:53.760 happens in the business. The idea is to be super flexible with where you put your deep work 314 00:20:53.760 --> 00:21:00.240 sessions, but at the same time, trying to keep to the rhythm as much as possible. Number two, 315 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:08.000 how will I work? So we're going to give you in the work session in just a bit. We're going to go 316 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:15.360 through, give me a second while I call that up. I just want to bring up my own notes for what's 317 00:21:15.360 --> 00:21:20.400 going to be in your work session. And in that work session, what I want you to do is look through in 318 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:29.520 that worksheet, look through the whole idea around how you can, as an individual, develop this 319 00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:38.000 priming method. So things like how will I work? Let me give you some examples of this. I will 320 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:43.920 have no internet connection, even turn off your internet connection if you can, or text messages, 321 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:50.560 no phone calls, no social media, none of that will be active. And I will turn them off 10 minutes 322 00:21:50.560 --> 00:21:57.600 before I start. Notice how very precise I'm being. I'm training my new working memory. So my brain 323 00:21:57.600 --> 00:22:04.640 gets ready to engage, right? Since we know if the moment we start is going to take up to 40 minutes 324 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:10.000 to get into that deep work state. So what I'm doing is I'm priming my brain ahead of time. 325 00:22:10.560 --> 00:22:14.800 And the other thing I might say, how I might work, if you're writing, for instance, a book, 326 00:22:14.800 --> 00:22:21.920 I will maintain X number of words per minute, as an example. So what these habits do is they set a 327 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:26.480 rhythm for your work. I'm not just going to be saying, oh, I'm doing research and then aimlessly 328 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:31.360 click around the internet for four hours. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about being very 329 00:22:31.360 --> 00:22:37.520 precise. And as we build up these sessions, and we get to show you how to do innovation 330 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:42.240 sessions later on, innovation sessions are literally going to say this new project is 331 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.760 going to take three deep work sessions. So we're going to tell you what to do with the deep work 332 00:22:45.760 --> 00:22:50.480 sessions later on, or you can do whatever you want. But right now, we just want you to develop 333 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:57.120 the new working memory of a deep work session. So how will I work is really important. Number three, 334 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:05.520 how will I support my work session? So your ritual needs to ensure that your brain gets 335 00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:12.400 the support it needs to keep operating at that depth of capability. So coffee, food, walks, 336 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:17.200 raw materials. If you are going to be on a whiteboard writing stuff, you've got pens that 337 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:23.040 work, the board's clean, you're ready to go. So an example is I have my coffee, my snacks, 338 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:29.680 always ready 10 minutes before I start. I have my whiteboard markers ready. And I'll do a short 339 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:35.280 walk every hour, five minute or 10 minute walk. So getting up and walking away from your desk 340 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:40.400 isn't a distraction. It's just you feeding your brain, getting some exercise, getting some oxygen 341 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:46.560 in your system or your water, whatever it is you need. Number four is the most fun of them all. 342 00:23:46.560 --> 00:23:53.680 And that is, do I need to make a grand gesture? Do I need to make a grand gesture? What do we mean 343 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:59.200 by that? Do I need to book into a hotel? So this is what we were talking about going away for a 344 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:07.600 week, a grand gesture will tell your brain, this is really important. So, you know, sometimes to 345 00:24:07.600 --> 00:24:12.800 go deep, first, you have to go big, you have to do something bold that lets your brain know this is 346 00:24:12.800 --> 00:24:18.880 important. So I've done this. Some examples of this are in my own life, I needed to get my book 347 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:25.840 Acuity out the door, which was a book based on my PhD. But I wanted to get rid of all the PhD 348 00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:31.600 fluffy academic things. And I wanted to get down to really practical book. So I wrote Acuity as 349 00:24:31.600 --> 00:24:38.240 and to get it done, I took a one week time sharing we had done in Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. 350 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:43.520 And I went down there for a week. And I wrote and I literally wrote, you know, I think it was eight 351 00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:50.960 or nine hours a day. And I ate, I took walks, very short walks, and I worked and but the grand 352 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:59.920 gesture told my brain, this is super important, pay attention. You know, I think that JK 353 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 Rawlings, when she wrote the Deathly Hallows, that was written in a hotel. 354 00:25:05.320 --> 00:25:11.080 The, I think it was Balmoral, known as one of Scotland's most luxurious 355 00:25:11.080 --> 00:25:15.400 hotels, is a classic Victorian building. 356 00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:21.080 And it has such ornate stonework and just absolutely beautiful, you know, 357 00:25:21.080 --> 00:25:24.200 got elements of that Renaissance architecture and sounds beautiful. 358 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:26.120 It's got a very tall clock tower. 359 00:25:26.120 --> 00:25:28.120 Anybody recognize what I'm describing? 360 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.800 Yeah, exactly. 361 00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:34.160 A whole lot of parts in the Harry Potter was inspired by that building, 362 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:38.480 was inspired by what that hotel looks like, the clock tower and all that stuff. 363 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:42.000 But what she found is that's how she got a lot of her books. 364 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:45.600 Those of you writing books, those of you do that kind of authors 365 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:48.880 and you want to get away, this can really, can really help. 366 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:54.640 Simple, practical example, since I live in Atlanta, Georgia, 367 00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:57.360 and the office is in Santa Barbara, California, 368 00:25:58.040 --> 00:26:02.640 I travel once a month, typically, and there's no direct flight. 369 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.240 So I have to do a three and a half hour flight to to Denver. 370 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:07.920 And then there's a hour layover. 371 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:11.120 And then I got a two and a half hour flight to Santa Barbara. 372 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:14.160 And so what I've done is I've turned them into two deep work sessions. 373 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:17.360 I've reframed in my head, this isn't travel. 374 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.520 This is me doing deep work 375 00:26:20.520 --> 00:26:22.520 while I'm sitting in a seat. 376 00:26:22.520 --> 00:26:24.880 And to me, it doesn't matter that I'm in a plane. 377 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:27.760 And I can't tell you how quickly the day goes. 378 00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:33.120 So I've got seven hours or so, two deep work sessions going on on Monday 379 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:35.480 and two deep work sessions coming back on Friday. 380 00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:37.600 And so I get four deep work sessions. 381 00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:40.000 Now, notice they weren't all four hours long. 382 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.240 But the point is that I reframe something that already exists. 383 00:26:45.280 --> 00:26:47.520 I know people who do international travel. 384 00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:50.960 Somebody who travels from California to Japan a lot 385 00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:54.040 just made that their deep work session. 386 00:26:54.040 --> 00:26:58.480 I know people who authors who rely on travel 387 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.360 as their primary deep work methodology. 388 00:27:01.760 --> 00:27:06.160 So I hope that was really practical for you as we go through these. 389 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:10.960 So you can ask yourself, I want to build this, this my own ritual. 390 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:13.080 So where am I going to work and for how long? 391 00:27:13.080 --> 00:27:13.960 Question number one. 392 00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:16.280 Number two, how will I work? 393 00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:18.720 Get as specific as you can. 394 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.800 And every time you do it, try to increase it slightly. 395 00:27:21.800 --> 00:27:24.440 Try to make it a little more specific, a little more detailed. 396 00:27:24.760 --> 00:27:27.200 Number three, how will I work? 397 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:31.800 How will I support my sessions, walks, water, coffee, etc.? 398 00:27:32.080 --> 00:27:34.160 And four, do I need a grand gesture? 399 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.160 Do I just like need to kickstart this whole deep work thing 400 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:42.120 and go away, do something or reframe flight or travel? 401 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:47.680 It's amazing how creative you can get when you think in those terms. 402 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.720 So that's our that's our session for today. 403 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:53.520 And I know that the team want to share. 404 00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:54.800 I know you may have questions. 405 00:27:54.800 --> 00:27:57.400 I haven't been tracking the chat, obviously, as I've been talking. 406 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:00.040 So, Dia, over to you. 407 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.040 All right. 408 00:28:01.040 --> 00:28:04.640 So our piece that at the beginning of the call that he was already preparing 409 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:06.880 the night before for deep work. So I love that. 410 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.800 He's already starting with the priming rituals 411 00:28:08.800 --> 00:28:10.960 that the night before is a great time to prepare for that. 412 00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:14.880 And Amy said she's been loving the challenge of diving into deep work 413 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.280 and expanding her capacity to do that. 414 00:28:17.280 --> 00:28:19.640 So congratulations, Amy. 415 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.040 And then Deon Bruce on the call said he wasn't allowed to watch Harry Potter 416 00:28:23.040 --> 00:28:23.760 and he was a kid. 417 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:26.400 I wonder who his parents were. 418 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:28.840 For anyone who doesn't know, Bruce is Deon's child. 419 00:28:29.560 --> 00:28:31.640 But anyway, he's got miserable parents. 420 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:33.200 It's not his fault. 421 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.200 So, yes, I would love we have a couple of teams present 422 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:40.480 who I know have been doing deep work for at least a year, 423 00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:42.440 some of us three years. 424 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.840 So I would love to open it up to hearing some of your strategies 425 00:28:45.840 --> 00:28:47.280 for your priming rituals. 426 00:28:47.280 --> 00:28:50.680 Also, what how deep work has changed the way that you work? 427 00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:52.360 We'd love to hear those things as well. 428 00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:54.960 I'll get started with some of my rituals for me. 429 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:56.720 It always involves coffee and chocolate. 430 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.880 That is a must for any priming, priming ritual. 431 00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:02.120 And my team always teases me about that. 432 00:29:02.120 --> 00:29:03.240 They know I need it. 433 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:04.680 It is definitely a need. 434 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.520 And then I also if I'm working at the home office instead of the actual office, 435 00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:12.000 I'll even do an Alexa announcement to my whole my family and the kids 436 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.120 so they know, oh, deep work is about to start. 437 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.960 Do not distract mommy, but she's focusing. 438 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:19.320 And my husband as well. 439 00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:21.320 He's a big culprit of interruptions, too. 440 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:22.880 So I do that. 441 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:25.080 And then I also turn off my notifications on my phone 442 00:29:25.080 --> 00:29:28.200 and I make sure that I have my pen and my pen is working 443 00:29:28.800 --> 00:29:32.680 and I have my paper, my journal, and then I close all other browsers. 444 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.400 I make sure, again, I am just focused on the task at hand. 445 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:40.880 And I'll try to think to myself, what if I was my own assistant 446 00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:43.080 and I'm preparing for myself in the future? 447 00:29:43.080 --> 00:29:45.040 What would I like to have done for me? 448 00:29:45.040 --> 00:29:48.680 How would I have liked my assistant to prepare my deep work session for me? 449 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.560 So I'll go through, get all the links I might need. 450 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:54.160 Sometimes I'll do a pre run on my planning document 451 00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:58.400 just to make sure that I'm well served and well set up for my session. 452 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.920 And the times that I don't go. 453 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.240 extra mile there. It is harder to get into deep work because inevitably you're trying to track 454 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:09.200 down something. You're trying to figure it out. So go ahead. The other teams who would love to 455 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:12.320 share. I would love to hear from Brilliant. If anyone would like to share, go ahead and 456 00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:17.840 raise your hand and we'll come to you in turn. I'll also be watching the comments for any questions 457 00:30:17.840 --> 00:30:28.160 too. All right, Jenny, go ahead. Yes. So I love deep work because it's like Dion said, 458 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:32.880 it is a superpower and it makes you a master of your craft. And the reason that it does this 459 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:41.600 is because anything that I have done deep work on is ingrained in my memory. And it makes me feel 460 00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:47.280 like I am the master and I'm driving my own contribution. So a lot of you will know, 461 00:30:47.280 --> 00:30:53.360 I know far more about sales tax than I ever wanted to, and it won't leave my brain. 462 00:30:54.320 --> 00:31:00.320 And I can, I'm very confident about the things that I know because I spent the time researching 463 00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:06.720 it, which is what deep work really allowed. It gave me room and space to research a topic 464 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:13.200 completely uninterrupted. Whereas I might've just taken bits and moments and half of that time 465 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:18.880 would have been refreshing myself from the research time before. So I really got to just 466 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:25.280 take time and space to research a topic and the priming rituals will change your life. 467 00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:31.600 For me, it's really important to have a clean space to work. So my desk is clean. My computer 468 00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:38.000 screen is completely clean. Like Dia, I will close down anything. I will turn off notifications, 469 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.400 close down any apps or browsers I don't need for whatever it is that I'm doing. 470 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:50.240 And then one of the most important tools is I put on music to set the mood and it just really 471 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:55.840 sends me into that place of deep work. And I'm just laser focused at that time. 472 00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:03.920 Thank you, Jenny. Jaylynn, I know you're like a deep work whiz. Are you here today? Would you 473 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:11.760 be able to share? Yeah, sure thing. Deep work is so much fun. I think I would say, first of all, 474 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:17.200 I love the permission that's built into it because I have permission to tune out everything else and 475 00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:22.880 permission to zone in on that one thing. And at least for me, maybe some of you have related to 476 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.760 this, but in other jobs you feel kind of bad doing that or you feel like it's going to reflect poorly 477 00:32:27.760 --> 00:32:33.440 on you if you're not immediately responding to messages. So I would just say with that permission 478 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:39.120 and the freedom, it's also helped me just practice being the person who really gets done what I say 479 00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:43.840 I'm going to do when I say I'm going to do it. And then I think it's a big signal to me if I'm not 480 00:32:43.840 --> 00:32:48.880 getting things done or if I'm constantly putting that one thing to the back burner, the signal is, 481 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:54.000 oh, I haven't been sticking to my deep work buckets or focused work buckets. So I think 482 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.520 it's just a really good indicator and a signal if I'm not getting things done that I can just 483 00:32:59.520 --> 00:33:05.360 step back into deep work. And inevitably, it makes my day fly by so fast. So, yeah. 484 00:33:06.320 --> 00:33:10.960 Thank you. Teresa, I know you have a game changer that really changed things for me as well to share. 485 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:17.120 You want to go ahead? Oh, I muted you. I'm sorry. Try again. 486 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:33.200 We keep going back and forth, mute and unmute. Okay, so my big takeaway, not takeaway, but what I need 487 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:42.480 for deep work is I have earplugs. Same ones you sleep with. I have them in my work bag. I carry 488 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:50.000 them in my purse and I have them at my desk and I have them at my house where I do most of my 489 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:57.680 deep thinking. And I don't know about you guys, but when I sit to be still and be quiet, my ears 490 00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:05.520 listen for every little thing. And for me, what it does is it literally just drowns out all of that 491 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:14.159 backup noise so that I can literally focus and get in the zone right away. For an extrovert who loves 492 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:20.000 activity, it has been so helpful. I can get in the zone in 10 minutes. I am like, 493 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:26.480 I don't have any distractions at all and I'm not listening for them. And then of course, 494 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:32.560 at work, I think Dion showed you all yesterday that we have a sign on the door. 495 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:42.239 And like Jenny, I need to have clean space. I don't need chocolate. I just need my earplugs. 496 00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:46.000 But the other thing that I've noticed when I do deep work is that there's two different 497 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:52.560 types of deep work. So if I'm working on scripts for an upcoming project where I don't need my 498 00:34:52.560 --> 00:34:56.719 computer for research, I just need to be listening to what's in my heart and my spirit. 499 00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:58.800 I tend to work at home in my chair. 500 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:03.720 And that's because then even the computer can be a distraction. 501 00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:09.160 If I'm creating something, then it's usually in my office and it took me 502 00:35:09.160 --> 00:35:14.320 probably five or six deep works to realize the preference between the two. 503 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.440 I don't know if that works for anybody else, if you had different places, but I 504 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:23.560 do find that for what sort of a project I'm working on, I have two different 505 00:35:23.560 --> 00:35:25.280 space requirements for that. 506 00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:26.520 I love that. 507 00:35:26.520 --> 00:35:28.160 It's kind of like a mini grand gesture, right? 508 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.600 It just brings your brain out of the rut that you might be in. 509 00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:34.520 I know a lot of people are saying in the comments as well, that they use 510 00:35:34.520 --> 00:35:37.920 earbuds, that they use different sounds or different songs for me. 511 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:41.680 So some days we might have a great brain day where we're firing. 512 00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:42.480 We're ready to go. 513 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.640 And there might be days when you have a bad brain day and you 514 00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:46.040 need a little extra support. 515 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:47.440 So be aware of that too. 516 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:50.680 For me, those are the days I might do thunder and rain sounds because it 517 00:35:50.680 --> 00:35:55.440 masks sounds, but I can't focus if I hear music or something else like that. 518 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:57.400 So everybody has a different strategy. 519 00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.720 So try something to give you an extra level of support. 520 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:04.000 If you are struggling or having a day when you just cannot get into deep work, 521 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:08.480 or maybe try walking around your office for a moment and that might help too. 522 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:10.320 Okay, go ahead, Kimberly. 523 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:12.320 And then after that, we're heading to breakout rooms. 524 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:16.480 I just have a quick word for anyone who might be thinking like, well, I 525 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:20.640 have ADHD or ADD or something, and it's going to be super hard for me. 526 00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:24.560 So maybe that's not many people on the call, but it's definitely 527 00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.360 been a journey for myself. 528 00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:30.240 But what I found is that it's not that you're averse to deep work. 529 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:33.200 You can actually, your deep work is really more of a superpower. 530 00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:37.040 I think then, then I don't know if it's okay for me to say, but the rest of 531 00:36:37.040 --> 00:36:41.000 the world, because I can, I can get into a deep work session and go eight 532 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:44.640 hours and not realize that I haven't eaten or had anything to drink or 533 00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:45.960 gone to the bathroom or anything. 534 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.640 Um, but so just going back to what Dion said, like, if that, if that is you 535 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:55.400 and you are kind of like working through how do I do deep work when I clearly 536 00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:00.120 have, you know, like some, some stuff going on, um, it's that priming ritual 537 00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:04.680 because in the past I would just like flounce around and like get into 538 00:37:04.680 --> 00:37:08.120 something and then just be into it for like, you know, six to eight hours. 539 00:37:08.120 --> 00:37:10.840 And then be like, why are you little people so hungry? 540 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:11.360 What is going on? 541 00:37:11.360 --> 00:37:12.400 I think it's been 30 minutes. 542 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.960 It's been like hours upon hours. 543 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:18.840 And, um, so, and before Rainmakers, I was an artist and I would 544 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:20.480 do a lot of artwork that way. 545 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.040 I would just like go in. 546 00:37:22.040 --> 00:37:26.240 And so, um, my husband, we got to a jam where he would like take him to Chuck E. 547 00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:28.520 Cheese, which is like an hour and a half away. 548 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:34.160 And I could just like get, so the priming ritual, if you are like, maybe 549 00:37:34.200 --> 00:37:38.560 you might work better in like the whole day to do deep work and the priming 550 00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:42.960 ritual be, you know, childcare and maybe you don't need snacks or anything. 551 00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:44.240 Maybe you just need to be hydrated. 552 00:37:44.680 --> 00:37:48.640 And the biggest priming ritual for someone in that space is 553 00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:51.120 to know what your deep work is. 554 00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:53.280 So in our team, we have rocks. 555 00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.160 So if I know that I have like three rocks this quarter, and I'm going to 556 00:37:57.520 --> 00:38:01.000 block off a whole day to do this and make sure my team knows that I'm out of office, 557 00:38:01.240 --> 00:38:04.920 I'll make sure that, you know, I have everything ready to go for that thing 558 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:06.640 because I'm about to spend an entire day on it. 559 00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:11.520 So if you do kind of like deal with that ADD, ADHD stuff, use that leverage, 560 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:15.040 that superpower and go into a deep mode that fits your style. 561 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.520 And you'll be really surprised at what you can do. 562 00:38:18.680 --> 00:38:19.280 I love that. 563 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:20.560 Kimberly, thank you for sharing that. 564 00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:23.920 We have three, we have a lot of neurodivergency in our home as well. 565 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.240 And we have a three with ADHD and it is a superpower. 566 00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:31.440 And the support, the priming ritual is such a help in able to really 567 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:34.720 unleash that genius and prepare yourself in a way that works really well. 568 00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:37.600 I know we have three homeschooled kids and one of them, she has to just 569 00:38:37.600 --> 00:38:40.000 focus on one subject for the entire day. 570 00:38:40.160 --> 00:38:42.680 And so the deep work actually blocks out for her. 571 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.880 So she doesn't have to have any switching costs because that's what derails her. 572 00:38:47.120 --> 00:38:50.080 So again, we're also unique and there's all kinds of really amazing 573 00:38:50.080 --> 00:38:52.120 strategies to put in place, but I'm going to go ahead and 574 00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:54.120 send us to our breakout rooms. 575 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:55.880 I hope that this conversation.