How The Top 1% Make Difficult Decisions Easily (The DMN Method) 

Get the FREE One-Month Day checklist here: www.flowstate.com/onemonthday Rían here. What if you always knew exactly what to do in any given moment, from the small to the large things, and what if you could arrive upon that conviction effortlessly… without even trying? That's flow-based decision-making. With the science-backed techniques in this PDF, you can use flow-based decision-making to exceed a month’s worth of work in less than a day.

1. Get clear on the root problem you want to solve 2. Write the problem down in a question form to get the brain working 3. Enter pleasurable flowstates unrelated to the problem, like walking, or showering. 4. Let the powerful subconcious abilities go to work on your behalf 5. Come back to your original question written down and begin writing the answers in flow.

I found opening up my flow state to the exformation all around me allowed my ego something productive to crunch on instead of always trying to get me into trouble by believing bad data. Starve your ego, feed your soul, and your mind will awaken to all the information around you that you never knew was there. Not only is the flow state a more effecient decision maker - it is a gentler and kinder one, too.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧠 *Introduction to Decision Making and Flow States* - Exploring the concept of perfect decision-making. - Introduction to flow states and their impact on decision-making. 01:51 🤔 *Two Modes of Thinking: Intuitive and Deliberative* - Discussion of intuitive (System 1) and deliberative (System 2) thinking. - The tendency to over-rely on deliberative thinking. - Impact of this imbalance on decision-making efficiency and stress levels. 03:43 🏃 *Experiencing Flow State in Decision Making* - Personal anecdote of experiencing flow state while running. - Description of transient hypofrontality in flow state. - The effortless decision-making process in flow state. 05:47 💼 *Applying Flow State to Everyday Decisions* - Bridging flow state decision-making with everyday choices. - The significance of intuitive decision-making in professional contexts. - The balance between intuitive and analytical thinking in business. 08:09 🔍 *Identifying the Root Problem in Decision Making* - The importance of accurately identifying the problem. - Differentiating symptoms from root problems. - Examples demonstrating the impact of correctly identifying issues. 13:30 🧩 *Engaging the Subconscious Mind in Decision Making* - The role of the subconscious in decision-making. - Techniques for activating subconscious processing. - The concept of 'exformation' and its significance in subconscious analysis. 17:25 📝 *Implementing Flow-Based Decision Making* - Steps for integrating flow-based decision-making into daily life. - Leveraging subconscious processing fordecision-making. - The incubation process and extracting insights from the subconscious. Made with HARPA AI

My favorite video of yours! I've lived most of my life in that flow...started with riding horses in the hills of the South of France...bareback having to navigate with absolute flow and intuition.... then moving to the States...California, also relying heavily on intuition as I had to learn a new language and lots of options to choose from. What I love about being really singular with your goal is how fast your System 1 lasers in on the right doors to open or close. I love it when 'claircognizance' just knows that it's the correct choice. It's a solid deep knowingness. And I love that you've got words for it that's not woo... I only knew it from a spiritual stand point...didn't know it was backed by science :)

man i just want to tell you that these videos literally improve my life and i wish there would be more videos like this across the youtube

This is why programming is so addictive. Getting into that flow state at 2am while everyone else is asleep. You told yourself you'd go to bed 30 minutes ago but you can't stop now. 😂

It’s similar to martial arts training, you’ve learn the moves, then trust yourself to execute the right move @ the right time without conscious thinking ..👍

This is the only RU-vid channel I like watching on a daily basis. this content is really relatable,helpful and implementing this technique is so efficient in improving ourselves.

So love that intuition is now part of the acknowledged and valued power tools - or modes of operation - in human potential study sciences, and in very practically minded areas, like business, instead of being part of just the domains of arts and spirituality, as has been historically in our culture.

You are a master at teaching us how to use our brains.

About a quarter into 'thinking, fast and slow", this video has perfect timing for me. Realizing that being stuck at a decision is probably caused by not having the right problem statement is something I've been waiting a long time to realize. Thank you.

This channel is a gold mine. Thank you Rian Doris.

I love this! The ability to experience this not just randomly but deliberately with intention is amazing!

The top 1% clearly are working with more mental capacity because I had to give up around 17 minutes in. Sure hope my subconscious understood

Nice video. Reminds me of a maxim in my own field (computer science): "Premature optimisation is the root of all evil."

You put these things into words so clearly, reminds me a lot of what I’ve been trying to do for the last 2-ish years for myself. Glad to have you as a resource. Thank you.

One of the most important channels I’ve followed to date. And I hope it just keeps getting better.

Only youtube channel with all high quality videos

Wow you never seem to disappoint with your videos. The level of effort and detail that you put into them is insane!

Can I just say I love this channel! Every video is so well made. From the script, the knowledge, the cadence of how you speak, the delivery, the pacing, the animations, everything is on point. But the thing I love about them most is the practical steps outlined that are simple enough for me to implement right away. Thanks for the good work you're doing I look forward to future vids ❤

I’m proud of how I made a recent important decision. I wanted a newer better car. So I went into a dealership and told them my three favorite brands and to show me what they had. So I decided on the brand. I got home and looked up other prices. I got quotes on the car from three places and took the best deal. Same price for a much newer edition

You are a great speaker. I feel so motivated whenever I listen to you speak. Great research and presentation.

I have a pretty solid dose of ADHD, but while attempting to explain the way I think to some of my peers I have expressed that I feel like my brain is a reactive machine and that I often don't "think of a solution" but that after inputting enough data, that my mind just kind of spits the necessary action and dont get me wrong I cannot just tap this when ever I wish but this video definitly made alot of sense in that regard as I didnt really know if it was a typical "thought" process

It's true that your mind works better when doing a simple task, like sweeping your backyard. Sometimes, you gain better focus and start thinking deeply about your problems. It happens to me too-in simpler terms, you just zone out in your thoughts

This channel changed my life ❤ Thank you ❤

The title of the video sounds much like clickbait and promises too much, but the advice in the video is, despite that, top notch. To sum up the most important idea, I would say it is to not prematurely try to solve a problem before really understanding the right question to answer.

wisdom is knowing what questions to ask

Use the force Rian.

Insanely intelligent, purely genius! ❤

Ever been an intuitive person. Sometimes it takes days or weeks to figure all the details and reasons what made the split second decisions so successful. Trying to explain myself and why that decision that "felt right" will work without knowing it yourself yet, was holding me back. It feels like a time travelling self hands you a cryptic note on what's best and you just have to trust it. Picture the confidence you would have travelling back in time and talking about "future" events. That clarity and confidence. It feels incredible. :)

Could you consider making a video on the most effective method to quickly adapting to a new daily schedule? For example if someone starts a new job or you have to relocate so things like your sleep schedule change, the time you go to the gym , your work hours, etc. I’m sure you’ve dealt with heavy schedule shifts several times throughout your career, so I was wondering how you went about quickly adapting

Goldmine of knowledge.

Thank you

this video actually helped a lot, you just have to apply the concepts to your individual context and everything will make sense

In most of the cases, you never know what would happen after taking a decision as the credibility of every decision depends upon the outcome of the said decision taken.

Just came from Leon Hendrix interview. Thanks for sharing.

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@0:56 greetings from Katowice, Poland ;)

Another great one rian, love to get such type of information

Absolutely incredible videos.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧠 *The speaker, Rian Doris, introduces the concept of making decisions like a supercomputer for optimal productivity.* 00:12 🌊 *Discusses accessing "flow states" for improved decision-making and productivity.* 00:27 🔄 *Highlights the common struggle with indecision and the limitations of average decision-making methods.* 00:40 📚 *Shares personal experience with decision-making challenges during high school in Ireland.* 01:10 ⚖️ *Describes the difficulty in making a major life decision using traditional pros and cons lists.* 01:38 🧐 *Introduces the concept of two modes of thinking - analytical and intuitive - and their impact on decision-making.* 02:06 🚀 *Explains System 1 thinking (intuitive, fast, and effortless) through a managerial example.* 02:33 🐢 *Describes the pitfalls of over-relying on System 2 (conscious, logical, slow) decision-making.* 03:00 🏃‍♂️ *Relates an experience of entering a flow state while running in the Irish countryside, emphasizing intuitive decision-making.* 03:43 🧠 *Discusses transient hypofrontality in flow states and its effect on decision-making.* 04:23 💡 *Realizes the potential to apply flow-state decision-making to everyday life challenges.* 05:20 📈 *Shares the necessity of adapting decision-making styles to handle increased responsibilities and decisions in professional life.* 06:02 ✨ *Describes how flow state enhances intuitive decision-making, using writing as an example.* 07:12 🌐 *Introduces the concept of flow-based decision-making, a blend of intuitive and analytical thinking.* 08:09 🔍 *Emphasizes the importance of accurately identifying the root problem for effective decision-making.* 09:47 🎯 *Highlights the necessity of a clearly defined problem for efficient decision-making.* 11:24 🚗 *Uses a personal car-buying experience to illustrate the difference between symptoms and root problems in decision-making.* 12:33 🧩 *Advises spending time understanding the problem before seeking solutions.* 13:30 🧠 *Discusses engaging the 'silent operator' (subconscious mind) for deeper problem-solving.* 15:07 📰 *Explores the concept of 'exformation' and how subconscious processes vast amounts of discarded information.* 17:11 🚿 *Explains how activities like showering can engage the subconscious mind for creative insights.* 18:10 🕰️ *Recommends allowing time for subconscious incubation of problems.* 19:06 🧠 *Explains that activities with minimal mental processing, unlike TV or social media, enhance cognition and creativity in the flow state.* 19:20 🔄 *Indicates that during long incubation phases, any activity is fine as the subconscious continues to process problems.* 19:33 ✍️ *Discusses how writing down solutions after an incubation period can lead to clear decisions emerging from the subconscious.* 20:02 💡 *Highlights that intuitive decisions often become clear through a gut feeling before needing to write them down.* 20:16 🚀 *Emphasizes the efficiency and enjoyment of flow-based decision-making over traditional, deliberate problem-solving.* 20:30 🎯 *Suggests that with experience, intuitive decision-making can become instant, as seen in industry veterans.* 20:45 🧗 *Describes the 'cognitive bias high' as the feeling when overcoming usual cognitive biases in decision-making.* 21:13 🛑 *Shares a personal example of abandoning a near-complete project due to a sudden, intuitive realization of its misalignment with the brand.* 21:42 🔮 *Explains that mastering flow-based decision-making allows overcoming cognitive biases that most people cannot.* 22:09 🧠 *Describes transforming the brain into a 24/7 problem-solving supercomputer, eliminating self-doubt and enhancing confidence.* 22:24 🌊 *Suggests that flow-based decision-making utilizes discarded information (exformation) for better decision-making.* Made with HARPA AI

Excellent video, boiling down of thinking fast and slow. Great personal stories, very relatable.

Einstein used this method. I read about it 35 years ago in a speed reading course. It was in a book about his life.

Food for thought definitely 👍

This will absolutely be helpful in my life ❤

That thumbnail... Simple and efective.

The unconcious mind is the ultimate (co-evolving with the concious) llm. Powerful, yet, can hallucinate and perform better with the right prompts.

Thank you sir 🙏🔥

bro. These videos are like chapters of one of the best non-fiction books

The perfect topic for this time , it helped me ❤

Yes we can become frozen in indecision, but it's better to delay than to go off half-cocked. Once that first domino falls there's no turning back.

It’s gonna be amazing video! Watching it first

Interesting. In summary: Write your problem down. Do tasks that are not taxing on system one (shower, swim, walk in nature, drive etc.) and this activates subconscious flow state and pulls out a solution for you from historic information (or archives). When the solution comes to mind, write that down too!

How to differentiate between a intuition and fear? Sometimes it happens that we think , the thing we are not doing is not good for us but most of the time it happens due to our fear. An we realize it afterwards .

Now I know the reason why I get most useful ideas in washroom.

soo good!! Thank you Rian!

its information is above my head

Thus happens with me! If someone tells me their problem, my mind makes connections and gives a solution, if I don't know the solution yet, I would be going about my life normally and something would pop up in my mind or I would come across an information without even looking for it that would be useful for some problem, because I have the concerns at the back of the mind, my subconscious knows there is a missing information and when the missing information is found it brings to my conscious that it makes sense, it is hard to explain because I am not actively looking for the solution, my mind just knows that it is something that is worth solving because someone (my mind sees concerns of others as my own, but externlaised) needs it.

Respectfully , I hate being directed to FAQ pages and bots, and automated GPT style answers. Humans are the best. But good video.

This is brilliant. Just listening I'm solving problems on my drive home. I need to say though, im very intuitive, but also very much in my head. I don't operate from gut or heart feelings. I accept their validity, but to anyone that doesn't get them don't try to force it. It's just as natural for it to just be the brain, in my book.

That video excites to bring up the meta question: wich is the most important question to focus on? And: Wich question should be regularly asked to make your brain work in your favour (and others)?

GOLD!

I feel like the Cognitive Bias High described at the end, or at least with the example given, might help a LOT of people who cripple themselves into making more wrong choices because it directly contradicts the Sunk Cost Fallacy. It allows one to think "what's best for me at this moment" withouth bias of recency or weighting, as opposed to thinking about it and weighing in the "well, this already has this inherent value (to me) because of the investment made in it already".

Great content... Enjoyed it thoroughly... One problem though is identifying the root problem...Is there a way to reliably do so? Thank you for the content. Let's discuss everyone, your welcome. 💛🙏

I was a professional motorcycle racer and I know what you're talking about when you say "the flow" what you're leaving out is when you're in the flow you're always one millisecond away from disaster. One mistake and the flow is going to end horribly when the ambulance guys are picking you up with a shovel. The closer to disaster you are the stronger you feel the flow. You can read about it in a book, but you have to live it to understand it. This isn't just about racing it's about everything in life.

I’ve had the same exact flow experience sprinting down a mountain and rocks

Your new beard is looking great , Rian 🤠

idc if it was coincidence or not, but i was watching this in flow state, iconic

I would love to hear more about your recovery from Long covid - if there were any special protocols or approaches that helped you. It is such a taking condition!

How to make decision, solve problem 1. Spend time in problem space: write down problem in question form. 2. Spend time outside problem for a walk 3. Come back to problem and solve it

This is real good advice thanks man quite helpful for my exam i am at that stage that you once were👍🏻👍🏻

Good info. Appreciate it

Damn. This is the brilliant cohesion of feminine and masculine energies.

Recently came across your channel. Love it! Excellent content. These principles are inherent in Kung Fu.

These videos are so good, I can’t believe your channel is so small.

Wow, this video is insanely good

Accessing your flow state and making decisions in such a state has its merits because most of our decisions are made by our subconsicous mind. Our subconsicous mind is good for making quick decisions such as playing physical sports, driving cars, etc. However, relying on subconcious mind alone on making decisions is perfectly disastrious because our human brain tends to make shortcuts when facing with complex problems. Various examples have been given by the late Charlie Munger in his writing about the misjudgemenet of human pschylogogy. Imo, you can learn to make better decisions either from your own mistakes or someoneelse’s. It’s achievable if you are familiar with the scenarios yourself but again, sticking to your subconscious brain alone for complex problems will lead to disaster

Thank youuuuuuu❤

Raise to editor🎉 & Rian u r mindblowing ❤

optimal path.... ultimate decision making.... i am gonna be the best apostle player ever!!

How would you apply this to choosing a major? What I think I should do is to - 1. Figure out the root problem. Which I believe is a 'An uncertainty in a stable(financially and in terms of job security), career after college.' What comes next?

This is gold

Bro this is perfect video

The irony here is that women make decisions like this all the time, and have done forever. But instead of being recognised as using our “supercomputer”, we are often accused of being “irrational”.

Knowing what you know now, how would you have approached the decision you were struggling with as a teen? Super interesting content, as usual. thank you.

I love it 😂 "we've invented being decisive!", finally we can all rest easy, now these GENIUSES have cracked it 😂😂😂

QUESTION: What if the probable solution/s will take time too and not automatic? Like I have to study the particular subject first or mastering something first? Is it still an intuitive type of solution?

I guess Santa sent me a great gift! Empowering!

Never be wrong again?😂 what an ingenious way to get me to watch it. Well done. Obviously it's impossible, but I just have to see where you're going with this?

Yeaahhhhhh... buddy!

Simplicity is resolved complexity.....if one truly understands a topic, they should be able to easily explain it to a child.....

This is great. What if your managers question your intuitive decisions and so you have to go back to system 2?

00:01 Improving decision-making for better productivity 02:02 Intuition and deliberation play a crucial role in decision-making. 04:05 Learning to apply intuitive decision-making from flow state to everyday decisions. 06:08 Flow-based decision-making harnesses intuitive action for better choices. 08:09 Proper decision-making depends on accurately identifying the problem. 10:12 Clarity on the root problem is essential for effective decision-making. 12:06 Identify the root problem before jumping to solutions 14:04 Formulating a question to activate the adaptive subconscious for intuitive decision-making 16:14 Your intuitive gut feelings are data points from an extensive subconscious analysis. 18:02 Leverage your subconscious for better decision-making 19:45 Mastering flow-based decision-making leads to better, faster, and more intuitive decisions. 21:23 Trusting flow-based intuition leads to confident and decisive decision-making.

9:22 @riandoris: You can't make a key that unlocks a lock if you don't know the Lock's shape and structure. @lockpickinglawyer: HOLD MY BEER.

Rian please make a video on how to learn any technical or soft skills faster?

Need a vid on reading. About better remembering what you read and fast reading

Can you use this "silent operator" to solve multiple problems at a time? Like writting down multiple problems then forgeting about them and doing the usual stuff Or is it better to focus on only one problem?

Can’t wait for the next video, already 2 weeks

nice haircut....perfect for this type of video