Five M&Ms! Five M&Ms!
(Laughter)
AG: Turns out that was a world record.
(Laughter)
That kind of mastery depends
on a second condition for flow,
mindfulness.
Focusing your full attention
on a single task,
not something a lot of us
are doing that much these days.
[Are you OK? You’re barely paying
attention to your book, phone, show ... ]
[ ... laptop and the crossword
you started ten minutes ago.]
There's evidence that on average,
people are checking emails 74 times a day,
switching tasks every 10 minutes,
and that creates
what's been called time confetti,
where we take what could be
meaningful moments of our lives
and we shred them
into increasingly tiny, useless pieces.
Time confetti is an enemy
of both energy and of excellence.
If we want to find flow,
we need better boundaries.
[It keeps me from looking at my phone
every two seconds.]
(Laughter)
When I think about boundaries,