You can be around people in notifications and distractions, in trivial pursuits, or you can change the world and dominate your domain. You can’t do both. You want to schedule time when you are alone. All geniuses have one trait in common: they spend a lot of time alone in their work labs or their studios, concentrating on a single problem for endless periods of time. So, they don’t have their phones, they don’t have distractions, they don’t have meetings, they are alone, and that allows their brains to shift from the prefrontal cortex into a phenomenon or state called transient hypofrontality, where your thinking mind, that seed of reasoning in the prefrontal cortex, shuts down for a short period of time, and you get into flow state, that term of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago. Flow state, that period of time where hours go by in minutes, and you get into the seat of genius that exists in every human brain. See, ultimately as an entrepreneur and as a creator, you are paid to come up with elegant, stylish solutions to big problems, and the more problems you can solve and the more people you can help, the more prosperity you’ll receive, but you’ve got to be alone to do that.
