Ep 40. Dave Murphy: Helping You Back To Flow.
Ajahn Sucitto, a teacher of mine, is a funny monk. What’s your work?
In the telling of his story, he says being a monk is just a job - some people are plumbers, others are lawyers and he’s a monk.
He arrived there 50+ years ago via much questioning, some psychedelics, over-grounding the globe on cargo ships and riding the back of trucks, following the quirks and curiosities of his mind. All the way home to funny monk.
On Peripheral Thinking this week I speak to Dave Murphy.
Dave was an ad man, his work taking him from Sydney to New York, then Amsterdam before back home again. Like all great journeys, he arrived home different to how he'd left.
We talk about flow state. You might know this as being ‘in the zone’. This not just for surgeons and surfers, it's a neuro chemical state available (and important) to you, your teams and work.
Dave’s journey was tripped open one weekend in Amsterdam. This before the ayuasca.
In the conversation we talk about that weekend and his longer journey back to flow.
The conversation points to something more too; all our guests are somewhere on a journey shedding old skins and growing into new work and impact, journeying to the peripheries of their own minds, we might say, and growing back home again.
Dave’s weekend in Amsterdam opened a doorway, revealing curiosities, invitations which needed following.
In this conversation, Dave will share with you:
- understanding of what flow state is.
- how to get there, and return to it.
- the benefits of doing so, which are many and varied and important for your health and happiness.
And, to the above, this conversation might do something else too: maybe it’ll inspire and remind you to follow the curiosities in your mind as a way to undo the work which no longer serves you. Maybe it’ll lead you to a funny monk or flow state. You have no idea. And that’s a good thing.
For now, sit back, plug in and marinade in Dave (so to speak!).
Links
The Flow Advantage – Dave’s programme
Breathe New Life Into Your Work – Episode 38, with Giles Hutchins
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi