This Video Will Save You 23 Years Of Your Life In 23 Minutes

Exotelic tasks are stealing your time.

ABOUT ME
Rían Doris is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flow Research Collective, the world’s leading peak performance research and training institute focused on decoding the neuroscience of flow states and helping leaders and their teams unlock flow states consistently. Clients include Accenture, Audi, Facebook, Bain & the US Airforce.

Along with being listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Rian's thought leadership has been featured in Fast Company, PBS and Big Think and he hosts Flow Research Collective Radio, an iTunes top 10 science podcast.

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Rían holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) from Trinity College Dublin, an MSc in Neuroscience at King's College, London and an MBA. Rian is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Birmingham—focusing on how flow states affect perceived meaning in life.
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Prior to co-founding Flow Research Collective with Steven Kotler, Rian worked with NYT Bestselling Author Keith Ferazzi, and 12X NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Dan Siegel, distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

[riandoris]

Rían here. The research shows exotelic tasks are stealing your time. With these science-backed protocols, you can waste-proof your life instantly.

[arbyharwig]

A friend owned a plant maintenance company (watering and tending to plants in hotel lobbies, malls, etc). One of his clients was a famous tv ad/ billboard lawyer. He was mocking the client - "this guy pays me $200 to stop by his beach mansion and water plants for an hour". I told him, "No he pays you $200 for an hour so he can charge $1, 000 an hour for the legal work he is doing instead of watering plants". Facts.

[userbQVqWJEStZnvYZWg]

one of my favourite quotes is -
"Perfection is not achieved when there is nothing left to add, but when there's nothing more to remove"
This video really inforces that and i really like it

[AngelTFC]

"Eliminate instead of optimizing". I have seriously never thought of that. Thank you, sir!

[lillianbarker]

I grew up knowing a now-famous artist. She had little money and 4 children. She made simple healthy meals, never shopped for anything except necessities, had no TV. She had strong friendships and often invited them for dinner. She painted every day because that was her purpose and she was a good mother, by stripping every unnecessary activity out of her life. She wasn’t deprived but happy doing what she loved.

[mikahundin]

Keep in mind that some activities that take up time and seem like life maintenance load activities actually help balance and maintain mental health. We are not just robots. Some of us have PTSD and anxiety disorders. We are aware the load activities accumulate and keep us from making progress, but some activities help us survive with our mental health issues. Cooking can be theraputic. The pandemic has isolated us into lonely people living in big cities, so the logistics of going grocery shopping can be an outlet for depression. Just something to consider in the context of this advice.

[nesano]

It's disgusting that we need to resort to this sort of thing. Life shouldn't be as busy as it is.

[c.]

Cleaning, cooking, driving kids, driving for work, doing taxes and work for the government is 80% of living time.

[richardjames]

This is high class content! Thank you!
It's time to cut:
-Social Media Scrolling
-Gaming a lot
-Buying unnecessary stuff
-Focus on good hobbies, cut unnecessary things
-Less Clothes means less laundry
-Less Display Stuff, less dusting
-Less Kitchen utensils if the functions only copy the other ones
-Less of bad habits that consume valuable time; ego, pride, anger, etc
-I think this is like more of Minimalist Living, we can adjust it base on our lifestyles.

[TheamazingPK]

NEEDED THIS FUCKIN VIDEO. I'M 26 AND FEEL LIKE A FUCKIN LOSER. IM GETTING MY FUCKING TIME BACK. WASTED TOO MUCH TIME ON VIDEOGAMES AND I WANT MY FUCKIN LIFE BACK.

[GeoffreyJamesKing]

Me and my dad have recently found this channel. This is a GOLD MINE.

[odettegibbs]

I’ve come to a point where I can experience the autotelic in everything. I had to wash candle soot off my walls the other day. One might think of this as low-grade life maintenance work, which takes me away from my theoretically more important work on my business. But I don’t see it that way. I put on some music and made a day of it. I got enormous satisfaction from completing the wall washing job. And now I can focus better at my desk. Everything can be symbiotically autotelic if we make it so. Life maintenance is a part of your telos if you see it that way, not an inconvenience.

That said, there may be useless activities that do not contribute to symbiotic autotelic experience. These would, as Rian points out, benefit from being eliminated from life.

[barefootedqueen]

Having ADHD I have time blindness. I am recently waking up at 52, but it is like waking up from a coma. The last I recall I was early thirties.

[ritsu]

I can't believe I'm getting this information for free. Thank you so much, Rian. Keep up the good work!

[justinemard]

I know this is a productivity channel, but am I the only one whose biggest life maintenance load activity is work? 😅 Work is simply a means to an end, which unfortunately one cannot eliminate.

[Rusewell]

WE GETTING OUR LIVES BACK WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥‼‼

[betterchapter]

Rian is one of the few people I have to watch on normal speed. So much concentrated wisdom. Thank you!

[jeffreydaniels]

I believe in the discipline of the mundane. I get up at 4 am, my morning ritual making my bed, green and red juice, supplements and green tea before my lymphatic body brush, layout of cloths, shower and shave. Walk to gym, walk to work, walk back home. Read, write, make dinner, dishes, clean prepare for bedtime, chamomile tea, brush teeth, sleep. Next day rinse and repeat. I’m 63 and I’ve been doing this for over a decade after tuning this routine for over 40 years. One size does not fit all. Lots of trial and error, lots of the mundane, lots of introspection, self actualization, and forward trajectory. Simplicity and minimalist agenda is much harder than it would seem.

[Momaf]

This why for centuries these tasks have fallen on women, wives, mothers and the men have had the freedom to flourish and the women have struggled to keep their heads above water. Glad to see things changing.

[odettegibbs]

I love the idea of seeing establishing low life maintenance as an investment. I have been a minimalist for around 9 years, and an extreme minimalist for around 2 or 3.

Sometimes people wonder why I would bother to have spent so much time and even money meticulously minimising my life maintenance needs over a decade.

For example, I spent 4 grand digitising my papers and books.

Might sound like a lot, but I am reaping countless dividends from this… I never have to dust a book or a shelf again, or purchase book shelves or filing cabinets again… I never have to lug files or books in boxes when I move, or hire a moving company to do this for me. I don’t need to pay for check in baggage when travelling with heavy books and files. I have everything at my fingertips whenever I need it, anywhere in the world.

Most profoundly I have a greater sense of mental peace and spaciousness.

This is just one of so many examples in my life.

Investing in systems which precipitate low life maintenance is definitely a thing!