Presentation highlights:

01:51 - The concept of flow

03:04 - The most profitable business model

05:40 - The idea of The X Journal

12:13 - Buried jewels

14:10 - When you’re over-ambitious

17:26 - The wrong type of work

20:41 - THIS is critical

25:15 - 4 amazing interview questions

28:50 - When your cup is full

36:05 - Focus on one task

37:34 - 21 tactics

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James: Our next guest is a contrarian. He's a movie buff. He is a highly intelligent person. He's memorized every single person at this event's name. Seriously, he can do that. He's one of the smartest people in Australia according to the IQ test. His whole job was helping students pass exams. But today, he's going to help you be more productive with some counterintuitive productivity tips. Please welcome Dan Dobos.

[Audience applause]

James: Thank you.

Dan: Thanks, James. I don't know anyone's names.

Alright. So, the biggest wave surfed prior to 1996 was seven and a half metres.

But around 1996, something interesting happens, and from then on, people started surfing much bigger waves. So today, the biggest wave is around 30 metres.

The biggest gap, which was jumped prior to 1990 was around 12 metres.

And then at around after 1990, something interesting happened.

People started jumping a lot bigger gaps.

And today, the biggest gap is about 70 metres.

The interesting thing that happened was that this concept of flow was discovered.

Basically, it allowed elite athletes to really get into the zone and to take things to a much, much higher level. The interesting thing is that it's not just something that athletes can use. It's something that you can use when you are working in your business. So what caused this difference? It's all about flow.

What is flow?

So what does flow really mean? Some characteristics of flow is that you're only doing one thing.

You're totally absorbed in it.

It's effortless.

You forget yourself doing it.

Time distorts. So you might be working for 3 hours and it only feels like 15 minutes. Or we've had cases of mountain climbers who are falling and time just slowed down. They manage to quickly catch a rope. So time totally distorts.