Dave Kashen explains how cognitive dissonance between where you are and where you want to be drives creative flow. He shares practical tactics for getting yourself and your team into sustained flow state to boost clarity, energy, creativity, and productivity instead of operating from frustration or fear.
the cognitive dissonance between how things are now and how you imagine things to be in the future generate this like creative flow where ideas are coming through, ideas for things to do, you know, new strategies, etc. And so if you can get yourself— and then as a leader, if you also then generate that for your team, you know, hey guys, here's where we are, here's where I see us in 3 months, 6 months, a year, um, that seems to be a, like, really powerful tactical way to get yourself and your team into that state of flow more and more of the time, as opposed to, you know, wishing you were already in the desired future and creating frustration, or focusing on your undesired future, which creates fear. Um, and so I think this sense of operating from frustration, lack, and fear versus operating from flow is, is at the heart of that question. Because I think a lot of leaders, when they say, how do I operate, you know, at my full potential, they're recognizing that they don't feel, um, clear, energized, creative a lot of the time. And, and they know that the times when they do, they're highly productive and they're having this positive spillover impact on their teams. Um, so that's, I think, practically speaking, a really accessible, tangible way to, um, get closer to, you know, operating at your full potential. So our mind is just so, uh, effective at inventing problems that it can then solve. Um, so starting to notice— and that, you know, that obviously takes us out of our, you know, operating our full potential
