 Oh, all right, everybody. Yes, it is Tuesday and we are live. This is great now. Want everyone to let me know. If you're available, you can hear me. I sound loud and clear. I tried to go live last week and I had run into technical difficulties. So my apologies on that. I will be live every Tuesday at 8.30 for a brief review of the podcast. I'm also going to try to tape something for later as well. And today we're going to discuss five reasons why you need to enter flow state and why that's important. So hopefully you guys have experienced flow state and live your lives looking for opportunities to get in the flow state. Why? Because it's that important. This week we interviewed Steven Keiler and he is the author of many books and does research in the flow state. His last book, The Art of Impossible was fantastic. I really enjoyed it and the interview was great. And any time that you can get me feeling nostalgia about the 90s, I'll take it because it was a good time for me. And Steven and his exploration of flow state, he is actually an older punk rocker and extreme sport enthusiast because we're roughly about the same age. So I enjoyed having that conversation with him. If you guys are out there, shoot me a comment. Let me know that you can hear me and see me well. I appreciate that. As I mentioned, I used to go live all last year for about six months every day at 8.30 and during weekdays. And I'm going to try to bring that back but I'm only doing lives on Tuesday. So let me know that you're there. Shoot me a comment. Say hello. That would be great. And as I mentioned, we're going to be talking about five reasons why you should be looking for opportunities for flow state and why that is important. So we interviewed, as I mentioned, we interviewed Steven Collier. And here's what I wanted to say about that interview. Geron Allen. Right on, Geron. Thank you very much. Nice to see you too, buddy. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate it. All right. So as we were talking about flow state, Steven roughly the same age as I am. So he was bringing back flow state to his days of skateboarding, snowboarding in the 90s in the explosion of extreme sports. And of course I'm 47. So I certainly was there for the explosion of extreme sports. But also with that, I was a participant as I was an avid skateboarder. And I don't know if any kids in the 90s could escape the lore of skateboarding. Now, for myself, I found extreme sports as an escape from my, my home life. In the 90s, I was a teenager. So my parents were getting divorced. They were always squabbling. I always just found it better for me to just be out of the house. I wouldn't have to deal with anything. So skateboarding was that outlet for me. So I, I participated in a, a professor says hi from the UK. Good to see you. Hope you're well. I am very well. Thank you very much. And the other thing that we were discussing with Steven was the soundtrack that went along with extreme sports. And in the 90s, it was roughly the beginnings of hip hop. The 90s hip hop scene from what I can tell, at least from when I talk to people who are hip hop enthusiasts, they remember that time fondly for, for myself, for suburbanites, it was the college punk rock scene, the indie rock scene was all big. And in the 90s, the LA sort of hair metal thing had given way to grunge in the, the next wave. And a lot of that, a lot of that transition was manufactured by the larger corporations who were shifting the culture at that time. But for myself, it was, it was the loud rock hair metal stuff. And then the punk box stuff kind of took over momentum culturally. It was the soundtrack to extreme sports and with extreme sports, snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, rollerblading, everything took off at that point. So with Steven, we had a great conversation about that. Now, before I get into the top five reasons why you should be looking for opportunities for flow state. The other interesting part about this is a lot of the children that grew up in the 80s, had heroes that were rooted in mainstream culture. That was the beginning of extreme sports. And most notably was Evil Caneval. Now, I don't know about you guys, but if you are Evil Caneval fans or remember being a kid and playing with Evil Caneval toys, you can let me know in the comments. You see, I was born in 73. Had I been just a little bit older, I would have been more of a 70s baby. But my childhood sort of ties in with the late 70s stuff, Star Wars, Evil Caneval. There was a lot of that. And then mishmashing into the 80s of the things that were going on there. There was shows like That's Incredible, Real People, followed by television shows like The Fall Guy or The Dukes of Hazard. And Evil Caneval as a kid, there was nothing that you wouldn't like about that guy. He's in a superhero outfit. I'm talking 1970s jump suit with rhinestones and a cape and a cane. I mean, straight out of a Marvel superhero movie. And the guy's stunts, you're now dealing with motorcycles. And a lot of his stunts were replicated at a lot of the suburban fairs. So demolition derbies, motorcycle jumps. And all of his, he became a mainstream cultural phenomenon and attraction. And for young kids like myself during that time, we idolized Evil Caneval. We've learned later much of his flaws, but those flaws and those excesses that come with celebrity are incredibly difficult to escape. So I'm not going to fault anybody for falling into those traps. But what I want to talk about is how people like Evil Caneval, and he was probably the most famous, there was television shows that were spawned, spin-offs off of that legend. Yeah, Jaren says, Miss Those Days definitely some of the raddest rock music back then. Absolutely. But if you're a kid in the 80s and you had just grown up watching the celebrity and the worship and the myth and the legend that had outgrown Evil Caneval, well, then you imagined and you played games with your friends pretending to be Evil Caneval. What do you think is going to come out of that sort of play? Well, if you have a bicycle, you're going to be jumping trash cans in the street. If you have a skateboard, then you're going to be building ramps in your yard or in the street. And so I was telling Stephen that it was, Evil Caneval's impact and legend, I think only expedited extreme sports because a lot of those kids, when I look at the idols that I grew up in extreme sports, Paul Peralta, Tony Alva, the protogenitors of skateboarding, they were huge fans of Evil Caneval. Evil Caneval was the first rock star who played in the realm of party in and excesses that rock stars did who came from left field. And so for the early skateboarders and BMXers, with Travis Pastrana be one of those BMX guys, these are some of the bike guys that I know, they had an affection and a love and a celebration of Evil Caneval that they had brought into their own lives. So then skateboarding, snowboarding, BMXing became a tribute to that idea. And those sports were blasted off into the mainstream given a name as extreme sports, but they sort of had their roots in with Evil Caneval. Now I had put together some notable daredevils who followed their passions of being in flow state and there's nothing better than being in flow state in front of an audience. Some of you introverts might think that is a weird thing, but this is for myself. This is why I had been attracted to extreme sports. Certainly skateboarding was something that you can do by yourself. It was even better when you had friends around you to all push each other. But there was a correlation between extreme sports and music. The punk rock metal became the soundtrack to extreme sports and they went hand in hand. A lot of young kids would go out skateboarding or BMXing all day long only to come home in the evening and rehearse with their bands and then go to the show that night. I mean, that was what life was for us in the 90s. It involved all three of those pastimes and all three of those pastimes have the ability to tap into flow state, have the ability to enlighten your life, to give you something to chase that made you feel good that was much healthier than the other after-school activities you might get into with your friends if you guys were bored. If you know what I mean. I mean, it's not like you're eating the parents' liquor cabinet and the rest that comes with that. Extreme sports, punk rock music, that gave us an opportunity to stay away from chasing the artificial mood enhancers. But that's what it is. So I brought this article. Let's see if I can find it. Six of the greatest daredevils throughout history. And here's some names that you guys might remember. But there were some interesting ones here too. I think the first one that probably the most famous is Harry Houdini, the escape artist. Imagine that making a name for yourself and putting yourself in difficult situations that if you don't escape, there's a possibility of certain death. In fact, I believe he had died on one of his attempts. There's a Jackie Chan. Think about Jackie Chan. Think about what he had turned into a flow state. Self-defense, stunts, martial arts. Think about all the other extreme sports artists that had taken traditional sports into an extreme. I would say people like Lance Armstrong or Michael Phelps. Think about with our athletes today, maybe LeBron James and some of the more... thinking of some of the more athletic guys who play football and basketball. Think about what their abilities are today comparatively to just a few decades ago. On this list, it has Gertrude Eldier, who was a swimming sensation, swimming the English Channel. There was a lot of this sort of stuff. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and get into the quick little lesson. Five reasons why you should get into and follow opportunities to go into flow state. And I'll end it there. Now, if you guys have any questions, you have any comments, feel free to leave them in. Feel free to drop a comment. I'll answer them as well. I'll get that out. But you can catch me every Tuesday at 8.30. I'm going to do a recap of the podcast, give a story and a quick chat on a point. And then that's it. I'm going to see how that goes. If you guys enjoyed, if you guys are watching, maybe I'll do more during the week, but I appreciate a few of you who popped in today. Thank you very much. All right now. So five reasons why you should look for opportunities to get into flow state. The release of the good chemicals, dopamine, adrenaline firing you up. This is an opportunity to reboot. Anytime that you are using your body, you are moving around. You are giving yourself a chance to feel good to force the good chemicals to force out the bad chemicals. Very important number two, you're experiencing an out of body experience. So when you're in flow state, everything else disappears. You have brought your focus. You have narrowed it till there is not anything else in the world that enters your thoughts. You almost transcend the feeling when you've eliminated all other thoughts and you've put all focus into the activity that you're doing. The total experience of that could feel as if you're having an out of body experience that you are transcending being a mortal person. You're not a person anymore. I don't know what you have transcended to. I can only speak to my experiences and I've got to feel that playing live. I think that is why so many young people chase playing music. When you're on stage and you have full competency and mastery over what it is that you are performing and you transcend in a banned context, it is not just you who's having this transcended experience. You are sharing it in a vulnerable moment with everybody that you having on this stage. There is no other feeling quite like that. It is the dopamine that gets pushed off is something that people will chase for the rest of their lives. Here I am at 47 years old. The first time in my life that I haven't been in a band since I've been 15 due to the move to Las Vegas but also the pandemic that is going on. It's making it very difficult for having a very active social life which you would need to put a band together. But at 47 I still look for those opportunities and hope that there will be some opportunities left for me to continue playing. And for everyone who has asked me in my life why I still play music up until the last year I've told them the same thing that there is going to be a time in my life where I'm unable to perform at the level that I am able to do today. And there will also be a point in my life where people won't feel compelled to come see me play. And I want to maximize my opportunities to experience that because at some point that's going to be taken away from me due to father time. And so therefore I want to maximize that. I think to me there is nothing greater in the human experience than that. Number three self-expression in its purest form here's what I mean by that when you have other people's thoughts in your mind it makes it difficult to detach from any sort of influence to express yourself. So when you're in flow state anyone around you disappears their thoughts about you disappear their attention approval and acceptance that goes to you or lack thereof doesn't exist. And for being human beings we're in a constant state of dealing with other people's attention approval and acceptance and however best we can deal with that because in our own makeup we are herd animals and attention approval and acceptance are the very values that allow us to feel safe within the herd it allows us to understand that we have a place when you're in flow state that transcended a natural state of being a human being so you are in the purest form of self-expression of who you are with no other influence attached that is a very powerful that's a very powerful thing that is why the best art the best writing the best painting music has been made through pure expression not made to sell that has been made with influence but when it is a creation of nothing that you've put together because it is an expression of how you feel or what you're seeing in the moment that is self-expression in its purest form part four the act of play the act of play where you're learning where you're enjoying yourself in the moment there's no time has been taken from you there is no time it's just your focus on trying to get to mastery with whatever it is that you're doing the frustration involved but the frustration is worth the mastery that comes to the other side that's the play aspect you're willing to do the hard things in order to master whatever it is that you have your attention on and number five number five is a a celebration in the mastery to be able to detach from all influence to detach from time to revel in the mastery that you have allowed yourself to build that's my top five to recap number one the releasing of the dopamine the adrenaline to reboot yourself to have an out of body experience to transcend the human experience number three self-expression in its purest form number four the activity of play and lastly a celebration in the mastery that you have taken so much time and effort to acquire there's my top five of why you should look for opportunities of flow 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as always we'll be dropping this week's episode in the YouTube channel on Thursday there'll be some clips dropping as well I can't you know it's funny and speaking with Stephen in flow state as I mentioned it brought up so much nostalgia for my childhood Stephen and I are roughly the same age but think about everything I learned into extreme sports because we had the leisure time in life at this point where we're able to devote it to complete mastery even today when I look at skateboarding and it's funny my Instagram is full of skateboarding channels just because I still marvel at what the kids are capable of today comparatively at my expense in the 90s and I remember the skateboarding of the 80s that I was a part of what it transitioned to extreme mastery in the 90s to where no holds were barred Tony Hawk at that point took skateboarding to a place where he was doing 900s on vert I had just saw on a mega ramp we didn't even have that back then on a mega ramp this year that a young guy did a 1200 unbelievable I don't even know what stance they used they're using fakie and switch and they're so is it I'm going to try to use the word and I pronounce it correctly ambidextrous it is mind blowing I remember back when we were skateboarding you would always learn the trick and regular stance and then you would try it and goofy and switch and fakie well I could tell you China bull Chinese we have had this channel for over a decade and this is the first time that I had went live in a very long time so you know I couldn't I couldn't tell you my friend in fact if you look at our channel and you look at the views we have some videos that have hundreds of thousands of views and other videos that have a few hundred but as I had mentioned earlier this is the year that we're going to be putting a lot of attention and effort towards the channel so I thank you for tuning in and checking out and I hope you enjoy what I had to say today alright guys well it is nine o'clock I have many 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