Superstars Exploit their Savant Domain

Superstars stay in their genius lane

Excerpt from Savanting: Outperforming your Potential, Chapter 4 (2019) by Lauren Holmes

SAVANT DOMAINS FROM CHILDHOOD

The six superachievers I have selected to demonstrate savanting have pursued what I consider biologically maximized careers – ones which honor their biological predispositions in compliance with the bioflow. One’s biological wiring, one’s strongest most rewarding talents, and one’s savant domain are more obvious during the simplicity of childhood. Therefore, it would be enlightening to examine what preceded their illustrious careers.

In my view, these six successful models never left the internal-external maximizing machinery into which we are all born. They remained integrated into the bioflow for most of their careers. Accordingly, their capabilities were always extended by the external bio-infrastructure and informational databases.

They live(d) maximized lives of continuous savantflows within their savant domain. Not only were they operating from peak performance, but they were in a high-growth state which continually pushed the envelope on their baseline functionality and the advance of their savant domain. As a result of being guided by the bioflow – the evolutionary flow of all living systems – they each pioneered new frontiers for humanity.

The new savant-inspired mode of operation will be examined in the lives of the four iconic founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook – Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, respectively. Excerpts from the lives of these and other superachievers will model how the internal-external partnership may be exploited to generate the worldchanging achievements they each attained.

“Control” of nature versus “compliance”

I have also selected the lives of two additional icons from very different savant domains as models. I specifically chose Oprah and Jim Carrey because they have self-identified as celebrity proponents of the law-of-attraction movement. I think you’ll find that explaining their success is much easier through savanting than the law of attraction (LOA). Their success will certainly be more replicable with savanting.

I also chose Oprah and Carrey because there are publicized events in their lives which are instructional with respect to pursuing the savanting way of life. This is my purpose for having six models. In addition, I think you’ll come to see that all their favorite success stories used to promote LOA result from honoring their biological wiring as savanting promotes.

In one critical way, the law of attraction is the exact opposite of savanting which is itself instructional. Savanting outlines a means to comply with internal and external biological processes in order to achieve goals associated with self-actualization and biology-driven purpose.

The law of attraction has the expectation of controlling natural forces. It is about redirecting natural forces to materialize what one wants through “like” attracting “like.” I assume this means that theoretically everyone in the world can simultaneously change the direction of powerful integrated and co-dependent universal forces to attract money. A bit of a challenge to reasoned thinking.

Savanting is about biological maximization. Both Carrey and Oprah were true to their biological predisposition in advancing their savant domains. Their success was achieved through sustained self-actualization. Have a look at their lives in the coming chapters and decide for yourself whether they controlled or complied with natural forces.

For now, let’s examine snapshots of the childhoods of all six superachievers for the beginnings of the savant domains in which they achieved such sensational success. I think the parallels of their biologically maximized careers will inspire your career.

THE CHILDHOODS OF OUR SUPERACHIEVERS

JIM CARREY – comedian, entertainer, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, film producer, uplifter

Jim Carrey was an entertainer from birth. He was addicted to uplifting people’s spirits. As a young boy, Jim slept with his tap shoes on in case his parents needed cheering up during the night. Unfortunately, his father had become unemployed and their financial situation had become dire. Carrey applied to be on the Carol Burnett Show at age ten and gave his first standup comedy performance at a comedy club at age sixteen. The savant domain in which he ultimately became successful began in his childhood.

OPRAH – media mogul, talk show host, actress, producer, philanthropist, uplifter

When Oprah was just three and a half, she was passionate about preaching to help people. She loved to recite the uplifting sermons of renowned preachers in the churches around her home. She knew even then that she aspired to inspire, encourage, and uplift.

Her talent as an orator and storyteller and her gift for drawing out people’s stories to benefit others were all in evidence by the age of five. She took drama in high school. During her senior year, WVOL, an African-American radio station in Nashville, Tennessee hired Oprah to read the news. Her broadcasting career was launched.

She then won a public speaking contest which gave her a scholarship to Tennessee State University. She majored in speech communications and performing arts. As with our other four founders, Oprah too left university in her teens to do the work she was passionate about. She accepted a job as a co-anchor at a CBS television station.

In 1978, while she was in her early twenties, Oprah was offered her first talk show to co-host, a morning show called “People are Talking.” After her first show, Oprah knew that this is what she wanted to do for the rest of her life. The savant domain of her ultimate success began in her childhood.

STEVE JOBS – co-founder of Apple, information technology entrepreneur, consumer engineer and artist, inventor, microcomputer industry pioneer, Pixar computer-animation pioneer

Steve Jobs was committed to consumer engineering for electronics from his early teens. That is the only audience that has ever connected to his heart. Jobs’ mechanical prowess and passion began at an early age. By age ten, Steve’s attraction to electronics had become obvious to his parents. As a result, he spent long hours with his father dismantling and rebuilding electronic devices in the family garage.

When he was twelve years old, he called William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to ask him for some parts to complete a school project. Impressed, Hewlett offered Jobs an internship at his company. Jobs thus launched into his savant domain before he was even a teenager.

Hewlett-Packard became a model for how he would run Apple at such a young age. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak met in high school when Jobs was just thirteen. Woz was the first person Jobs had met who knew more about electronics than he did. Their days quickly became about the type of work that eventually created Apple and made Jobs a leader in his savant domain.

Steve’s entrepreneurial skills showed up early in his life with several commercializations with Woz while a teenager. His love for minimalist design used for all Apple products also started in his teens and is rooted in the modernist architecture of his childhood home and his study of the principles of simplicity in Japanese Zen Buddhism. He took art classes in his teens to develop his interest.

BILL GATES – co-founder of Microsoft, information technology entrepreneur, mega-philanthropy pioneer, software pioneer, microcomputer industry pioneer, worldbuilder

By the time Bill Gates was thirteen, his key talents had intersected into a savant domain focused on improving the quality of life of individuals en masse. Bill’s brilliance in the tools of his mission – programming and business – were winning him acclaim and money throughout his teens.

In fact, he knew as a pre-teen that he would be an entrepreneur running his own company. However, his entrepreneurialism embraced the true meaning of the word with respect to pioneering new frontiers not simply business ownership.

Gates had a passion and aptitude for penetrating the unknown and building the structure to underpin it. The words of Ralph Waldo Emerson come to mind. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

These three talents – business, programming and entrepreneurialism – were only tools of Bill’s worldbuilding domain. So many have missed the essence of the man and what drives him because they assumed (a) that the accouterments of success he accumulated from his achievements were his goal or (b) that the fields or industries in which he played identified his savant domain. Had Microsoft never existed, Bill Gates’ career would have looked exactly the same in some other frontier.

He was ready to launch his first company by age fifteen but was overruled by his parents wanting him to attend university. By the time he was twenty his passions had found vent in Microsoft which launched two new fields – microcomputers and software – in the service of personal computing.

Microsoft let him begin his widespread service to enhancing the lives of consumers en masse until it was easier to do this more directly through philanthropy, or more precisely, mega-philanthropy. This had been a key focus of his family from his birth.

JEFF BEZOS – founder of Amazon.com, business leader, entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer, aerospace pioneer, worldbuilder

Jeff Bezos is considered to be the inventor and developer of e-commerce through Amazon.com. Amazon has transformed the way we read, shop and watch TV, and through its cloud services division runs an astonishingly large portion of the internet.

Bezos is a self-proclaimed “change junkie” continuously scaling new frontiers of learning, experimentation, and creation. At age eighteen, Jeff’s valedictorian speech at his high school revealed his vision of the retail and residential expansion of humanity into space. This colonization vision undoubtedly drove the planetary expansion of Amazon.

In addition, Jeff has now founded a consumer spaceflight company, Blue Origin, to develop the necessary technology for establishing an enduring human presence in space. Commercial suborbital human spaceflight experimentation began in 2018. The planet-wide expansion of Amazon into new unknown territories was preparation for the new frontiers he hopes to scale for the colonization of space.

The savant domain that spawned both Amazon and Blue Origin first appeared as Jeff’s obsession with science fiction books emphasizing worldbuilding. Even as a child his mind was captivated by their ambitious, mogul-driven projects with a self-contained set of planets, space colonies, and social relations (human, post-human, or other-than-human) run by radically different principles from the ones we know.

Following an announcement ceremony for Blue Origin at Cape Canaveral, Bezos talked with the media about his childhood obsession with the space program and science fiction books, and how that passion has motivated his business pursuits and shaped his ultimate goal to eventually put “millions of people” into space.

While an undergraduate at Princeton, Bezos served as the President of Princeton’s Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. His goal has always been to continuously make history. One can trace Bezos’ savant domain from childhood to the present and even project it into the future. Even if Amazon disappeared from the world tomorrow, we can know where his life will go. He will be true to his biological wiring.

MARK ZUCKERBERG – co-founder of Facebook, internet entrepreneur, social networking pioneer, philanthropist, worldbonder

According to his tutor in grade school, Mark Zuckerberg was a programming prodigy. Many assume this is his savant domain. However, Mark was smart at everything and programming was just one more field. Would it surprise you to learn that at age twelve, Zuckerberg began connecting his own family – his first social grouping?

“Zucknet” interconnected the computers of his family and their businesses so they could more easily communicate, support, and bond with each other. His passion for relationship-building began in his childhood and has never stopped.

Should Facebook disappear tomorrow, Mark would continue to promote the quality of life and success of individuals en masse through bonding people. Technology was only a convenient tool of his savant domain but not that domain.

It is his passion for relationship-building that prompted a computer science geek at Harvard to also take psychology. Mark’s raison d’être is to elevate the quality of life of people around the world by improving their connections and relationships. He is driven to unify, better, and bond humanity.

Shaping evolution

Each of these six superachievers had a biological predisposition to the personal savant domain for which they later became celebrated. That field of genius was often evident before they were five years old but certainly by the time they entered their teens.

Imagine decades of peak-performance and peak-growth savantflows within their savant domains starting this young. Imagine the success of your career if you never left your savant domain from birth to death. It is easy to see why competitors could never keep pace with these icons.

Notice that, for the four technology founders, the fields in which they became renowned really didn’t exist to any extent until they created or developed them. Notice as well that each of their savant domains was beneficial to humanity. This is what you would expect if people are partnered with the evolutionary forces of the bioflow continuously mutating, adapting and advancing the human species for survival.

Nature will provide support based not only on the maximizing of your system but also the maximizing of humanity’s system. The bioflow will guide you to maximizing both simultaneously – to the perfect intersection of two hierarchical systems maximizing. This is the formula for your greatest support from the bioflow to achieve your goals.

This is what you will learn from the six iconic savant-domain career models examined in this book. They each excelled in a savant domain that was facilitating the ideal direction of human evolution. This is the ideal strategy for yourself or any company you might run.

Your Biology-Driven Purpose

Purpose

Excerpt from Savanting: Outperforming your Potential Chapter 24 by Lauren Holmes

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny – he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. Osho

So many have an emptiness that causes them to yearn for more meaning, purpose, and mission in their lives. They feel purpose is the key to a plethora of desirable psychological, physical, material, and emotional rewards that they crave from their core.

In fact, this need is so widespread that one could assume that it is genetic. And it would be understandable why evolution might select for such a yearning to pull us to protect, adapt, and advance the species.

The methods currently popular for discovering one’s purpose are rather haphazard – yielding imperfect, incorrect, temporary, burdensome, or unsustainable directions. Savanting more precisely satisfies this craving for the desired emotional state of having purpose. Instead of having to rely on human intelligence to determine one’s purpose, savanting conscripts nature’s intelligence. Our purpose and even the need for a purpose are biology-driven.

SAVANTING’S BIOLOGY-DRIVEN PURPOSE

Biology is used in savanting not only to identify your purpose but also to drive it, evolve it, and adapt it throughout your life as you grow and as your context progresses. The bioflow tells you when you are on purpose and maximized within your savant domain by responding with support.

Biological mechanisms which have evolved over generations as part of our biological imperative determine what we now label “our purpose.” It need not be the confusing intellectual exercise that so many seekers endure to find meaning in their lives.

In addition, most popular methods for defining one’s purpose yield a goal-driven approach – a mission that you must achieve even if you dislike what you have to do to get there. Savanting instead provides a state-driven approach. It addresses the real goal – sustainably generating the fulfilling state of being that you are craving. This is the underlying driver of the careers of our six superachievers.

This state is achieved and sustained by doing the most meaningful, intrinsically rewarding activities at your biological maximum with continuity. Each of these activities build on each other throughout your lifetime until your legacy becomes significant worldchanging work. You live your purpose rather than know where it will lead. You have the “emotion of purpose” every day in savantflow as you scale frontier after frontier within your savant domain.

Savanting provides the means to sustain a state of peak-purpose, peak-meaning, peak-growth, peak-performance, peak-achievement, and peak-creation in the territory of your greatest talents and passion. It is the guidance system so many of us seek to keep us on-path throughout our lives.

Your ideal “purpose” then would be the same as your savant formula. It would have you operating at your biological maximum so that you can apply your strongest most rewarding talents to the most meaningful, intrinsically rewarding activities for an audience that will value this, your greatest work. Add to this formula the support of the bioflow to help you outperform your innate potential and you have the only logical foundation upon which to build your life’s work.

Now that you know about the bioflow, do you really want to risk committing to a life purpose which requires you to fight continuously upstream against its direction? The advantage of savanting for identifying and implementing your purpose is that your pathway, at any point in your life, will be clear.

There will be clear signals inside and outside of you when you are moving in the right direction. The ideal path for your maximization can be determined at any point based on the empirical evidence of bioflow support in your past which will predict future bioflow support and hence your ideal direction. You are guided.

Even nonvisionaries can operate as if they have a vision of the future because they are guided by the evolutionary flow of humanity. Even the execution-challenged may operate with the genius of execution creatives such as the four founders of Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Even noncreatives may generate the new and unprecedented.

You are supported. You have relevant information at the right time from the bioflow for a re-combining process which will produce new information systems to advance your savant domain. You will enjoy coincidence after coincidence catapulting you ahead to a goal which may be better than the one you pursued when you started.

How helpful is it to have a guidance system which is up to date with all the new inventions, innovations, and events in your savant domain despite you not knowing about any of them? You will have a better chance of achieving your purpose when you go with the flow. One’s savant formula provides a new more reliable way for determining one’s purpose and living it.

DETERMINING YOUR BIOLOGY-DRIVEN PURPOSE

To launch your biology-driven purpose, you need only to begin doing activities or pursuing learning that you are passionate about which will put you into a savantflow. How do you know which activities are likely to invoke savantflows? There are two ways to predict these.

First, activities which provoked savantflows in your past will likely generate savantflows in your future. Savantflows will have the telltale signs of support from the bioflow. The savantflows will conform to a pattern or theme over time. Your life purpose and your savant domain will emerge from that order.

Savantflows are high-growth states. Your purpose is going to evolve with serial savantflows as you do. The “emotional feel of being on purpose” will provide you with better direction indicators than trying to apply labels to define and pursue your purpose.

Eventually, you’ll be able to look back with 20:20 hindsight and see how your biological wiring in partnership with the bioflow has perfectly advanced you along a logical pathway that defines an identifiable purpose. Then you can project that purpose into the future to accelerate your progression.

The second way in which you can predictably determine which activities are likely to generate the savantflows defining your purpose is through other themes of activities supported by the bioflow in your past. You can identify the direction of your purpose from any of several interchangeable themes or patterns of events in your past because they are all leading you to the same place. Biological maximization.

Your unpaid work theme, your knowledge-pursuit theme, your creativity-pursuit theme, your frontier-pursuit theme, or the theme of activities that triggered relevant spontaneous knowledge, clusters of coincidences, or spontaneous creativity. Each one of these themes will identify your biology-driven purpose.

Just begin. Find safe places, projects, or activities to begin the process. The block and flow events in your reality will tell you whether you are going in the direction supported by the bioflow for your purpose. You’ll have all the distinct telltale signs to confirm that you’re moving along your purpose path. You’ll be attracting people, events, and information into your life routinely which will feed and facilitate the advance of your purpose.

An intrinsically rewarding purpose

I want to reiterate a concept in the context of this discussion of biology-driven purpose. The activities that are part of your purpose will be intrinsically rewarding. This is not about doing activities you are excited about to achieve a particular goal. “Intrinsically rewarding” or “biologically rewarding” mean that the activity itself is the goal.

Think of our six superachievers. Their childhood play became their adult paid play in the savant domain in which they became famous. Their careers were biologically not intellectually driven. So many seekers never find their purpose because this singular requirement was never met. Instead of concentrating their time on intrinsically rewarding activities and letting a purpose-related context unfold, they instead sought a goal and took action – often unpleasant action – to achieve that goal.

Your lifework may lie in a field which does not yet exist. Or there may be a channel from which to launch it which never occurred to you. There may be coincidences which can save you hundreds of steps to accelerate your start. There may be a few models for how to proceed which, when you combine them together will lead to a worldchanging, paradigm-shifting breakthrough.

Begin with what you know to try to trigger engaging addictive, emotionally rewarding savantflows. What feels good; what you are passionate about; what is meaningful; what is fun; and so on. When you discover your purpose, it will rely on work that is its own reward. You cannot enter savantflow without this.

Accordingly, it is also important not to choose work that you think will get you to the intrinsically rewarding work or place that you want to be. This is contrary to the biological functioning and benefits of savanting. You’ll have none of the magic working for you.

The Biologically Maximized Career

The Ultimate Career Strategy

What do the founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook teach us?

Excerpt from BioMaxed, Chapter 38 (2019) by Lauren Holmes

Many aspire to the success of iconic founders, Bill Gates (Microsoft), the two Steves: Jobs and Wozniak (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon). They have achieved the goals that many pursue in their careers.

Chasing the success formula

Many mistakenly assume that they accumulated their wealth, acclaim, and world-changing breakthroughs by pursuing these rewards directly. Many therefore try to emulate what their career paths “seem” to have been in order to acquire comparable extrinsic rewards. They try to follow the discipline and linear formulas prescribed by so many of today’s success gurus. They are at a loss when their incredible hard work does not pay off as it did for our seven super-achievers.

The intrinsically-driven career

That is because the elusive success formula these seven share is not what would-be imitators thought. Rather, it was the serial pursuit of intrinsic rather than extrinsic rewards along a path defined by biological predisposition and preference. An exercise in my ‘Sourcing Your Savant’ article will help you to identify your personal formula.

A nonlinear career path

In the interim, let’s translate the formula into generic terms that anyone might emulate. Our seven icons applied their strongest most rewarding, most addictive talents to their most meaningful, impactful application for audiences which would value their output the most. They repetitively broke through frontier after frontier of capability, accomplishment, and impact with those talents and this formula.

Their strongest talents are a constant. Therefore, their advance will be a nonlinear expansion in capability and impact around that core. Think widening concentric circles. In other words, they continuously improved on the thing they do best rather than advancing up a linear ladder to more responsibility, for example. Rather than ladder-climbing, our seven founders were simply thrust to the top by the expansion of their greatest strengths into widening circles of impact. Their success was nonlinear.

The biology factor

Yet what I am promoting is not about clichés such as “follow your heart” or “do what you love” or “play to your strengths.” When you get your personal formula correct as our super seven did, there are biological consequences. Biological benefits explode exponentially.

We have been identifying a goal state of operating at one’s biological maximum around the use, improvement, and strengthening of one’s strongest talents. A plethora of biological mechanisms have evolved to pressure us to operate at this biological maximum to ensure the survival of our species. So, when these biological mechanisms kick in, magic happens. An overdrive engages.

Addictive drives and emotions activate to pull you to use your strongest talents. They make what would be work for anyone else into irresistible, compelling, addictive play for you. Discipline and force become unnecessary to achieve long hours of productivity and peak performance. This was the day-to-day life of our seven super-achievers. No wonder they accomplished so much.

Imagine the lifetime of leaps these seven founders experienced. Even coincidences increase to catapult you ahead because they are part of the same information-leap process. Routine career strategies could never compete with this kind of capability.

In addition, you will spend most of your day in a peak-performance, peak-growth state called flow. Flow is our maximum state. Therefore, mechanisms have evolved to addict us to it. Every time you enter flow when it is focused on the use or improvement of your top talents, your functionality, skill, and knowledge of your craft will increase. The baseline operation of our iconic founders thus increased over their lifetimes.

But more importantly, your cognitive capabilities will increase: conceptual, abstract, system, and big-picture thinking, for example. Right-brain activity will also increase significantly. Synergy with the left brain that most cultures develop better will be maximized. The result will be whole-brain operation at levels which exceed the sum of the parts. This further increases what you can achieve. Prepare to transcend!

The biologically maximized career

Imagine what would happen after decades of upgrading, performing, and achieving at your biological maximum as our seven founders did. What will your biologically maximized career achieve? What will ‘your’ Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google or Facebook equivalent look like?

The Ultimate Career Strategy

What do the founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook teach us?

CHASING THE SUCCESS FORMULA

Many mistakenly assume that they accumulated their wealth, acclaim, and world-changing breakthroughs by pursuing these rewards directly. Many therefore try to emulate what their career paths ‘seem’ to have been in order to acquire comparable extrinsic rewards. They try to follow the discipline and linear formulas prescribed by so many of today’s success gurus. They are at a loss when their incredible hard work does not pay off as it did for our seven super-achievers.

THE INTRINSICALLY-DRIVEN CAREER

A NONLINEAR CAREER PATH

In the interim, let’s translate the formula into generic terms that anyone might emulate: Our seven icons applied their strongest most rewarding, most addictive talents to their most meaningful, impactful application for audiences which would value their output the most. They repetitively broke through frontier after frontier of capability, accomplishment, and impact with those talents and this formula.

THE BIOLOGY FACTOR

Yet what I am promoting is not about clichés such as “follow your heart” or “do what you love” or “play to your strengths”. When you get your personal formula correct as our super seven did, there are biological consequences. Biological benefits explode exponentially. We have been identifying a goal state of operating at one’s biological maximum around the use, improvement, and strengthening of one’s strongest talents. A plethora of biological mechanisms have evolved to pressure us to operate at this biological maximum to ensure the survival of our species. So when these biological mechanisms kick in, magic happens. An overdrive engages.

Further, one will be merging with nature’s creative process. Even non-creatives may suddenly wax creative. The kinds of breakthroughs and flashes of genius experienced by our super-seven increased significantly. One breakthrough may be life-changing, career-making, and even world-changing. Imagine the lifetime of leaps these seven founders experienced. Even coincidences increase to catapult you ahead because they are part of the same information-leap process. Routine career strategies could never compete with this kind of capability.

There is more in this overdrive state. Flow is actually an altered state of consciousness. It will cause your consciousness to expand. You may better see the interconnectedness of things as a result. Your work will improve with this perspective. But more importantly, your cognitive capabilities will increase: conceptual, abstract, system, and big-picture thinking, for example. Right-brain activity will also increase significantly. Synergy with the left brain that most cultures develop better will be maximized. The result will be whole-brain operation at levels which exceed the sum of the parts. This further increases what you can achieve. Prepare to transcend!

THE BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED CAREER

The Ultimate Career Strategy – What do the founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook teach us? Reprinted in Personal Excellence October 2014, part of Excellence Essentials from HR.com

Coach-Client Co-Evolution

Have you experienced it?

Many coaches, in their moments of inspiration, have given profound advice to their clients which was exactly the advice they needed for their own lives. I will tell you why I think this happens. I will also hint at how you may selfishly cultivate this handy synergy to accelerate your own problem-solving and growth while giving great coaching.

However, I want to hear from other coaches, mentors, leaders or parents: Have you ever experienced symbiotic growth with your ‘coachees’ through your own insightful coaching?

MY PERSPECTIVE

Here are the why and how hints that I promised. I am a biological anthropologist specializing in career and talent maximization. As such, I am biased towards analyzing how internal and external biological factors influence our nature, behavior, and culture.

I routinely re-integrate clients back into the biological machinery that adapts, evolves, and maximizes us for survival. By extending their capabilities with adaptive biological mechanisms, processes, and systems, clients are able to achieve beyond their potential. They are able to achieve bigger goals better and faster. They are able to penetrate new territories or bring unprecedented creations into existence more quickly, safely, and effectively because that is built into nature’s adaptation process.

EXPLOIT NATURE’S SELF-ORGANIZING
FOR SYNERGY AND SURVIVAL

Biological systems self-order for improved survival. Translation: Nature is a good librarian and CEO. It groups all living systems into their most advantageous proximity for information-sharing to solve adaptation challenges. This ordering includes coaches, clients, and solutions. After all, we too are just information systems.

Rather than being separate entities, we are all elements of a single dynamic information matrix or database. This database is really just a single integrated flow of living systems continuously re-ordering and synchronizing for synergy to ensure their mutual survival.

SOURCE THE RIGHT CLIENT AT THE RIGHT TIME?

Any assumed separation between coach and client then is cultural not biological. The events in either life inform the other when one releases to nature’s adaptive self-ordering process. When one complies, one is ushered to the right client at the right time to source the information to adapt or advance both coach and client. Has anyone experienced this?

CLIENT CLUSTERING?

As a natural extension then, going with this adaptive flow actually causes a clustering of clients to provide the information required to adapt or maximize the coach’s system and each other. Needless to say, this clustering is wonderfully efficient from a business and growth perspective. A coach will be orchestrated to deal with the many sides of a personal growth issue across a multitude of clients if necessary until his/her own system has the information required next to correct, adapt, or advance.

ACCESS MORE COACHING INSIGHTS

What does this single ordered information matrix mean for your coaching? There will be patterns of events or information groupings across your life and indeed the lives of all of your clients that are relevant to the maximization of any person in the cluster. More information means you have better advice, strategies, and insights for your client. This is very advantageous when there is a multitude of unknowns with which to deal.

These event patterns provide a wealth of new information to make a coach more effective, more insightful, more inspired, more ingenious. Profound and perhaps life-changing coaching may result.

YOUR EXPERIENCE?

Now it’s your turn. What is your experience of these phenomena or absence thereof? Has seeming serendipity ever crept into your coaching?

Reset to your Maximum for the Unemployed

RESET SCENARIOS for the UNEMPLOYED

Excerpt from BioMaxed, Chapter 31, and Savanting Appendix III by Lauren Holmes (2019)

RESET SCENARIOS for the UNEMPLOYED to reset to their maximum by achieving sustained or serial top-talent flow

This collection of scenarios for resetting to your maximum capitalizes on the increased flexibility of the unemployed. The scenarios are grouped into two categories:

Scenarios 1-4: This set of contexts for biologically normalizing include assembling a company, buying a company, starting a company, or borrowing a company or job

Scenarios 5-7: This second category of scenarios is fashioned directly from the seven iconic founders of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon we have been examining in earlier articles. It is about releasing to your natural drives for growth, creation, frontiering™, and learning until you are able to commercialize them into paid play, often with the creation of a new field or frontier. This is the means to achieve your maximum lifetime legacy and really explore the outer limits of your capabilities.

Scenario 1: Assemble a mature virtual company from existing components: companies, firms, professionals, technology, information systems, contractors, consultants, workforces, skills, and such.

This is one of my favorite techniques for quickly resetting my outplacement clients to their maximum to accelerate their job search process. A virtual organization is assembled to provide the perfect context to replicate one’s past maximum events.

It should therefore comply with your findings from your sourcing-your-savant exercise: your unpaid work, creation-pursuit, frontier-pursuit, and core-expansion themes and especially your historical formula for top-talent flow. Anything that does not help you to persist in serial top-talent flow states is outsourced. Anything that is more work than play is outsourced.

Virtual company design

This scenario is not about starting and growing an entrepreneurial company from scratch. This is about melding fully operational units together as a mature company. Nor should this model be used to recreate a lost job. The job was lost due to system corrections which may well have been instigated by the adaptivity needs of your own system. There is little future in trying to go against the flow of the maximizing process.

The maximizing machinery found your de-hiring adaptive for some human system whether that system was yours, the company’s, the market’s, the industry’s, or some other system. There had to be many thwarting signals consistent with no support by the maximizing machinery that you had to overlook to end up experiencing the surprise loss of your job.

Now that you know what to look for, you will not be blindsided again. In the future, you will proactively reposition with the signposts of the maximizing machinery to be led out of the old context and into a new more adaptive one.

Coincidences, breakthroughs, flow events, and quantum leaps will catapult you nonlinearly and opportunistically to endgame jobs or the success of this newly created customized virtual organization. When you have the right design for your system, the virtual company will almost form itself.

There will be magic. There should be lots of leaps propelling your forward. So even if you have only an emotional blueprint of the final company design or how it will feel, you can move at top speed to implement it. Partnering with the maximizing machinery will ensure that your natural growth path will become the company’s growth path.

The virtual company is intrinsically rewarding in and of itself. However, it will also be one of the fastest ways to penetrate the hidden job market to close your ideal job. This will require a separate article to explain. Suffice it to say that your marketing efforts for selling your virtual company’s services will coincide with selling yourself into your ideal job.

Scenario 2: Buy a company with private equity

You may not need to create a virtual organization to reset to your maximum. You may be lucky enough to find a company that will give you your ideal job for operating at your biological maximum and you can simply buy the company. Look for flows to facilitate finding the right company and blocks to the wrong one.

Scenario 3: Start an entrepreneurial company along your natural growth path

The design of the company should offer the perfect expression of the maximum you. The growth path of the company should align with your knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit, frontiering-pursuit and core-expansion or growth drives. The goal is to be paid to achieve your maximum lifetime growth and achievement.

Scenario 4: Borrow a company and/or a job

An interim employment contract is a great way to normalize to your maximum. Employment could be at a company, a not-for profit, an association, a charity, or similar. If there are no interim executive jobs available, it may be advantageous to offer your services for free to speed your reset to your maximum. Coincidences and breakthroughs may then quickly catapult you to a more permanent arrangement.

Scenario 5: Free-form work driven by your unleashed top-talent drives: Unpaid-work and knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit, frontiering-pursuit, core-expansion, and top-talent flow drives

This is a completely unstructured approach to freeing your day to the above drives in order to advance the world in some way. This is intrinsically rewarding in and of itself. However, over time you will begin to scale new frontiers in your top-talent territory. A plethora of breakthroughs, coincidences, and leaps will pull you in unknown directions which in 20/20 hindsight will appear immensely logical and adaptive. You will find that your version of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or Apple will emerge.

This is a frontiering adventure into new territory or bringing the new into existence. It is pure serial breakthrough synthesis. Rather than having a defined structure for a project or entrepreneurial company, this is about being pulled by the drives and passions associated with applying one’s strongest talents until the field, the job, the invention, the discovery, or the company emerges.

Scenario 6: Analyzing and developing your ‘science’

This is not about true science. This is about the development of a set of rules or procedures or discoveries that will allow those without your innate talent to operate as you do or to accomplish goals you were able to accomplish. You are seeing my science in these articles. They capture what I do instinctively so that others without my aptitude may apply it to achieve beyond their potential. As you analyze how you use your strongest talents you will be increasing your abilities and breaking through new frontiers. For some, this scenario will allow them to achieve top-talent flow states and reset to their maximum. It will work for the employed or unemployed.

Scenario 7: Pursue your lifetime legacy

There are those who know what they want their greatest lifetime legacy to be based on the maximum application of their strongest talents applied to the most worthy cause for the most receptive and valuing audience. By committing to its achievement using the breakthrough synthesis of the maximizing machinery, you will quickly find that you have reset to your maximum.

Reset to your Maximum for the Employed

RESET SCENARIOS for the EMPLOYED

Excerpt from BioMaxed, Chapter 30, and Savanting Appendix III by Lauren Holmes (2019)

To reset to their maximum by achieving sustained or serial top-talent flow

These scenarios suggest contexts conducive to releasing you to reintegrate with nature’s adaptation machinery. Once you begin moving in the direction of your maximum, there will come a point of critical mass. Nature will take over and begin pulling you to your maximum and into adaptive directions. Nature’s maximizing machinery will begin grouping your system to advantage for synergies and synchronizing. For those who are employed, it is still possible to free yourself to reset to your maximum. Where possible, however, you should keep risks to your current employment status to a minimum until your expertise develops.

Scenario 1: Redesign your existing job

If employed, your ideal method to reset to your maximum is to re-design your existing job to comply with your natural growth path and the direction the maximizing machinery has historically pressured your system to progress. If this cannot be done directly, perhaps the following strategies might be used:

Add special projects to your job, especially skunkworks or new ventures. Top-talent flow can only be experienced if you are advancing through new challenges and creations.
Join projects elsewhere within your employer
Partner with companies that do business with your employer or create projects around the interface
Create charitable ventures for your employer’s corporate giving program which require your strongest talents
Seek secondments to governments or companies/organizations surrounding your employer which will benefit both sides and you.

Scenario 2: Take a different job that already exists within your current employer

Scenario 3: Create a new job within your employer

Scenario 4: Create a new project or new venture within your current employer

Ideally these will become part of your existing job as part of the job redesign sought in Scenario 1. However, if necessary, work outside of your job on perhaps initially unsanctioned projects until they have advanced enough to be supported by your employer and become part of your job or create a new job ideal for you.

Scenario 5: Take an active Board of Director position with an outside company

This will let you do the work you were designed to do without leaving your employer.

Scenario 6: Work for a charity or not-for-profit after work

Ideally this could be a role sponsored by your current employer as part of their corporate giving program identified in the redesign of your job in Scenario 1. However, it may be necessary to create a new context conducive to resetting to your maximum which is unrelated to your current job or employer.

Caution: For the goals of this exercise, it is important to not be dragged into work which is not related to resetting your system to its maximum. Unfortunately, one must recognize that the needs of the have-nots in this world are infinite. You are taking on this additional work to reset to your maximum in a meaningful way. It is best to restrict the gift you are prepared to give to the giving of your strongest talents applied to your most rewarding and valued work at your maximum. This benefits both sides of the equation while energizing rather than depleting you. The resulting partnership with the maximizing machinery will reposition you to a more adaptive context long-term.

Scenario 7: Cultivate a hobby outside of work in which you can maximize

There is the possibility that breakthrough synthesis may find a way for your hobby or home studies to eventually become your source of revenue and ultimately your career. Remember to choose your hobbies to comply with your unpaid work drives, and creation-pursuit, growth-pursuit, frontiering-pursuit, and top-talent flow drives. So many fabulous careers have been launched in a home garage.

Scenario 8: Research projects undertaken for your employer

These projects should comply with your knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit, and frontiering-pursuit drives. Achieving breakthroughs that will advance your employer or your industry will advance your career, upgrade your worth to your employer, and become the driver of your biologically maximized career. So many phenomenal careers have begun with a single breakthrough.

Scenario 9: Give Speeches. Write books. Blog. Teach. Pursue a field of study

The preparation and delivery of material you are passionate about developing within the territory of your strongest talents will pull you into serial top-talent flow states. This will give you access to the magic associated with coupling with the maximizing machinery and its serial breakthrough synthesis. Even a few breakthroughs may be career-changing, life-changing, and even world-changing.

Reset to your Maximum

To Outperform your Potential

STRATEGY TARGETS TACTICS RESET SCENARIOS
Natural maximizing mechanisms will re-engage The indicators of operating at your maximum will increase Progressions similar to live models Increase Top-Talent Flow Honor your savant formula based on your historical experience Harness future predictability from past patterns Best savant exercises for scenario selection Advance in the direction of increased indicators of operating at your maximum Your new modus operandi Follow your savant formula and indicators of your maximum Participate in proactive breakthrough synthesis Links about breakthrough synthesis Scenarios for the employed Scenarios for the unemployed

Our cultures have taught us to operate as separate biological entities. This would unfortunately limit our potential to what is within us. Yet, we have been born into a massive biological machinery.

Systems of mechanisms, processes, and forces have evolved to adapt and maximize all living systems for survival. Could our potential be extended by that machinery and all the systems it orchestrates? Indeed it can. Change the way we operate and the bar for human potential will be raised.

Let’s start by resetting you to your maximum and extended potential. Use the strategies, targets, tactics, and scenario suggestions here to reinstate your partnership with the adapting, maximizing machinery that evolved us all.

Once re-connected, our true power, potency, and promise are released. Circuits complete. Processes partner. Mechanisms mesh. Systems synergize and synchronize. Synchronicities surge. Coincidences cluster. Sudden knowledge, sudden creativity and flashes of genius flood in. Growth processes launch. Our internal-external human system resurrects.

Once re-connected, natural mechanisms inside and outside of you will pull you to peak performance and beyond. Let’s begin by identifying methods and scenarios which will trigger adaptive processes to restore you to your true maximum. Let’s empower you with the ability to achieve beyond your potential. Let’s discover the magnitude of the lifetime legacy with which you might advance our world.

Strategy

The strategy for this exercise to reset you to your maximum will be simple: Find a context such as the scenarios suggested below to abruptly quantum leap to operating at your maximum with the least risk to your existing way of life. Shift from your limited internal potential as a separate biological entity to your true potential when extended by the maximizing machinery and all of the living systems it orchestrates.

You do not need to be operating at your maximum to couple with the maximizing machinery. You only need to be moving in its same direction towards your maximization. When your speed and direction are right, it will feel as if two gears have re-engaged.

The surge in power and potential will be palpable. Once connected, natural mechanisms and processes will take over. Nature knows what to do. Internal and external mechanisms will re-link. The natural integrity of your system will be restored. You will be able to outperform your internal potential.

Targets

Natural maximizing mechanisms will re-engage
We have evolved addictive drives that biologically bias us to use and improve our greatest strengths. It is advantageous to the survival of the species that we be biologically biased to peak performance.

The more you comply with the addictive drives we have evolved for it, the more you will want to comply with them. Therefore we need only put you into a scenario in which you begin operating at your maximum and natural mechanisms will work to sustain you at that maximum.

The indicators of operating at your maximum will increase
Merging with the maximizing machinery will increase your experience of the following:

Serial top-talent flow states
Facilitating events
Emotional highs
Events in which you operate at full power
Your impact on the world
Your advance of it through creativity and creation
Savant-like Information leaps inside or outside of you:
- serial coincidences and other facilitators that speed/enhance your progress
- serial breakthroughs:
  - “Aha!” and “Eureka!” events, flashes of genius, epiphanies
  - sudden knowledge, sudden insight, intuitive leaps, enlightenment
  - sudden creativity, sudden creation, creative inspirations
leaps to emotional highs
Savant-like performance leaps and achieving beyond your norm
Scaling of new frontiers
Bringing the new into existence
Serendipitous projects accelerated as if by magic
Activities which are addictive and difficult to resist
Activities that are intrinsically rewarding
The pull of addictive drives pulling you to use and improve your strongest talents
The pull of addictive drives pulling you to top-talent flow states
The pull of your knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit, frontier-pursuit, and core-expansion drives
The clarity of the pathway of your maximum path of lifetime impact

Progressions similar to live models of the target maximums will be evident
Real life examples help to identify what we are expecting to happen once you reset to your maximum in your selected scenario. Previous articles have examined the careers of seven icons – Bill Gates, the two Steves, Jobs and Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos, the founders of Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, respectively.

They are examples of biologically maximized careers based on addictive drives to using and improving the greatest talents of each. Their careers are peppered with world-changing breakthroughs reflective of savant states that emerge from synchronizing with the maximizing machinery.

We learned how the compliance of these seven icons to biological maximizing processes caused them to lead addictive careers of serial breakthroughs, serial frontiering™ or scaling of new frontiers, serial growth, serial creations, serial emotional highs, and serial flow states.

Even a few such breakthroughs have made careers life-changing and world-changing. What could your career become with serial breakthroughs and sudden-knowledge leaps such as flashes of genius, “Aha!” and “Eureka!” events, sudden insights, sudden knowledge, sudden creativity, creative inspirations, intuitive leaps, epiphanies, and enlightenment. Even those of ordinary intelligence may cultivate such savantism?

Tactics

Increase Top-Talent Flow
We have determined the strategy and the targets of our reset exercise. It is now time to talk implementation. Your absolute maximum is a peak performance flow state that emerges while you are applying your strongest most gratifying talents to your most meaningful goals benefiting the audience most valuing of your efforts.

If, in the scenario you choose for your reset, you did nothing but spend your day in this top-talent flow state, you would merge with the maximizing machinery effortlessly. Magically, new functionality and capabilities would emerge. Serial achievements beyond your potential would become the norm.

Increasing the time you spend in top-talent flow daily is both a target and a tactic. It is, in fact, the one tactic that will eliminate the need for all of the rest of the below prescribed actions for resetting to your maximum. It is a way to turn the task over to natural maximizing processes and mechanisms.

This is because flow is yet another addictive drive: the more you experience it, the more you want to experience it. This is why it has been a key driver or, perhaps more accurately, attractor of human evolution.

Let me provide some links below to what I have already said in previous articles about this maximum and maximizing flow state so that your target will become clearer:
“Magic happens when you stretch your best talents to more impactful achievements over long periods of time. You repeatedly experience an altered state of consciousness that psychologist Csikszentmihalyi calls flow. Attention is 100% focused on the activity at hand.

Peak performance and growth are built in. Time, space, and even self-awareness cease to exist. Flow is intrinsically rewarding. It too is an addictive drive that will raise your baseline functionality as it did with our super-seven.”

The Triggering of Cascading Functionality Upgrades
Flow maximizes instantly
Your maximum flow: top-talent flow
Sudden savantism through top-talent flow
Growth through top-talent flow
New meta-skills from extensive top-talent flow experience
Flow is our internal breakthrough synthesis
Serial top-talent flows or serial internal maximizations
Theme of Top-Talent Flow States

Top-talent flow will be the ultimate goal for any of the scenarios below that you might choose to facilitate your reset to your maximum. However, should this maximum state elude you, there are alternative approaches which will enable you to re-engage with the maximizing machinery that evolved us.

Again, you do not need to be operating at your maximum for your system to merge with the maximizing machinery. You only need to be moving in the same direction towards maximization.

Honor your savant formula based on your historical experience.
Harness future predictability from past patterns
You may easily know your target maximum state for this exercise from an inventory of your experiences of your maximum in your past. Your Sourcing-Your-Savant exercise findings provide you with the formula for when the maximizing machinery has and has not supported your progress in your past and hence when it will and will not support you in the future.

This formula defines when coincidences, breakthroughs, flashes of genius, sudden knowledge, sudden creativity, and other such flow events will catapult you to peak performance in your selected scenario. Therefore, your savant formula will tell you precisely the design requirements for a scenario for reconnecting you to the maximizing machinery.

Best savant exercises for scenario selection
There are certain themes or patterns of past events that are likely to be the most advantageous for selecting and operating in your ideal scenario for resetting to your maximum. For most people, these include: your unpaid-work theme and your knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit, and frontier-pursuit themes.

And, of course, your top-talent flow theme will be invaluable since that is the target state we want to increase in any scenario you choose. There is no point in trying to work against what you find in your historical data. Choose your scenario accordingly.

Advance in the direction of increased indicators of operating at your maximum
The very capabilities that you expect to have at your maximum are not just the targets. They are also the tell-tale signs to follow moment-by-moment to arrive at this maximum. They tell you that you are moving in the right direction. Follow the indicators of your maximum state and you will automatically be re-integrated into the maximizing machinery and taken to your maximum in one seamless process.

The criteria used to identify past events of operating at your maximum for the Sourcing-Your-Savant analyses, are the same signals that you will be following to guide you within the scenario you. When these signposts are not in evidence, you will need to take safe actions in any direction until you find them again. You might have zigged when the maximizing machinery zagged.

Your new modus operandi
. Follow your savant formula and indicators of your maximum
You may recall that this is the thrust of the section entitled why you want to Learn All Twelve Categories:
“There is an important reason why you will eventually want to investigate all twelve categories. This is because this will not be a one-time exercise. It will become your new routine modus operandi. You will analyze immediate events as they happen to choose the direction that will keep you hugging the flow of the maximizing process.

Repeating the exercise for more current events will be the way you will read, merge into, and capitalize on the maximizing machinery going forward.These twelve analyses will provide the information that you need for your daily decision-making, goal-setting, and goal achievement.”

If we are resetting you to your maximum then operating in this way will become your new way of life. You will always want to be directed by the signals of the maximizing machinery. There would be little point to resetting to your maximum if it was not your intent to sustain that maximum. Now you know how to do that. You are ready to make the paradigm shift.

. Participate in proactive breakthrough synthesis

Let me offer a little more insight into your new modus operandi. You will be partnering with a nonlinear opportunistic maximizing machinery that is synchronizing and synergizing all living systems for survival and adaptation. The creativity it uses to resolve maximizing challenges is something I have coined ‘breakthrough synthesis’ in previous articles.

Breakthrough synthesis is the perpetual process of re-combining existing information systems to create a new information system. Serial breakthrough synthesis is the recognizable serial quantum leap process which underlies all biological evolution. It is what generates the leaps I often speak of such as coincidences externally and leaps internally such as breakthroughs, flashes of genius, sudden savantism, sudden knowledge, sudden creativity, and sudden flow states.

This is the process you are merging with when you reclaim your membership in a massive biological machinery. One goal is to tap into the breakthroughs to accelerate your progress to your goals. However, there is also an opportunity for you to drive this breakthrough synthesis to achieve larger more innovative goals faster. Future articles will help you to develop this expertise.

For the purpose of this paradigm shift or quantum leap to your maximum, it is worth imagining that it will take you three to seven coincidences in order to have the information pieces to recombine into a new information system that enables you to achieve your goal. You will want to be vigilant in letting yourself be guided by the machinery to colliding with the necessary information pieces. Try not to force yourself to proceed linearly through a known project plan. Let yourself become nonlinear and opportunistic wherever it is safely possible to experiment.

Even non-creatives and those with less than stellar intelligence will see how to re-combine three to seven information pieces for breakthroughs when they are placed in front of them. History is riddled with examples. It is possible for you to become one of them. Create what has never existed before. Create your equivalent version of a Google, Facebook, or Apple.

Below are some links to what I have already said in previous articles about breakthrough synthesis:
Breakthrough synthesis
Brilliant breakthroughs
Biological breakthrough synthesis
Flow is our internal breakthrough synthesis
The science behind breakthrough synthesis
Serial breakthrough synthesis or serial information creation or serial frontiering™
Brilliant breakthroughs for the ungifted?
Breakthrough synthesis redefines leading?
Breakthrough synthesis – the new job search / job creation process

As you spend time in your new scenario, growth processes are launched that will continue to raise your baseline performance and functionality for the rest of your life. In effect, even the information system that is ‘you’ will become an ingredient in breakthrough synthesis.

Even you will be recombined with other information systems to create a new ‘you’ around the innate immutable essence that is you. It is important to understand that there is no finite arrival at your maximum.

Once your partnership with the maximizing machinery extends your potential externally your potential becomes as infinite as nature. Given this new breakthrough modus operandi, true human potential is as yet unquantified.

Additional miscellaneous tactics for the reset-to-your-maximum exercise

Some additional rules of engagement will ensure the success of your foray into a scenario for your reset to your maximum:

Your work in your chosen scenario must impact or advance reality or the outside world in some way.
Any action you take should elicit indicators that you are moving towards maximization: top-talent flow b. emotional highs c. coincidences, leaps, and facilitating events
Comply with the historical evidence: Pursue those directions and elements that the machinery supports. Exclude the things it has not historically supported.
As a novice, avoid emotionally-charged goals until your expertise and proficiency improve. For many this will mean you should not set goals for money, valuing, acceptance and inclusion to compensate for abandonment and exclusion, and abundance to compensate for scarcity.
Protect your system integrity at all costs. Where possible, take safe experimental actions only. There is no need to take risks to re-integrate into the maximizing machinery. Risks should be considered ‘blocks’ to routes you were considering. Keep the same end-goal but find another route or a better time when the machinery is more receptive.
Watch for facilitating events or gates to open up to show you the best direction in which to proceed. You should thrill to the prospect of your next action or do not take it. There should be coincidences, leaps and flow events to facilitate your progress in the adaptive direction for you. Alternatively, if there are blocks, even internal ones such as negative emotions, stop. Find a better route to your goal which appears to be supported by the machinery. Nothing should need force.
However, never leave a flow event or coincidence unexplored. These are created by opportunities for synergy with other living systems. Take safe actions to find those opportunities. They indicate the adaptive direction for your system.
Keep non-play elements to a minimum. Honor your goal if you must choose between your goal and the goal of your scenario – a charity, for example. It is important not to be pulled off-track. You may already have that situation at work so your scenario needs to be a safe free environment where you can meet your maximizing goals.
It is okay to take action with the signposts of the maximizing flow without knowing precisely what your goal is. An emotional blueprint or how your arrival at a goal will feel is sufficient.

Reset Scenarios

SCENARIOS FOR THE EMPLOYED
to Reset to their Maximum by achieving sustained or serial top-talent flow

Nature’s maximizing machinery will begin grouping your system to advantage for synergies and synchronizing. For those who are employed, it is still possible to free yourself to reset to your maximum. Where possible, however, you should keep risks to your current employment status to a minimum until your expertise develops.

Scenario 1: Redesign your existing job

Add special projects to your job, especially skunkworks or new ventures. Top-talent flow can only be experienced if you are advancing through new challenges and creations.
Join projects elsewhere within your employer
Partner with companies that do business with your employer or create projects around the interface
Create charitable ventures for your employer’s corporate giving program which require your strongest talents
Seek secondments to governments or companies/organizations surrounding your employer which will benefit both sides and yourself.

Scenario 2: Take a different job within your current employer that already exists

Scenario 3: Create a new job within your employer

Scenario 4: Create a new project or new venture within your current employer

Scenario 5: Take an active Board of Director position with an outside company

This will let you do the work you were designed to do without leaving your employer.

Scenario 6: Work for a charity or not-for-profit after work

Caution: For the goals of this exercise, it is important to not be dragged into work which is not related to resetting your system to its maximum. Unfortunately, one must recognize that the needs of the have-nots in this world are infinite. You are taking on this additional work to reset to your maximum in a meaningful way. It is best to restrict the gift you are prepared to give to the giving of your strongest talents applied to your most rewarding and valued work at your maximum. This benefits both sides of the equation while energizing rather than depleting you. The resulting partnership with the maximizing machinery will reposition you to a more adaptive context long-term.

Scenario 7: Cultivate a hobby outside of work in which you can maximize

Scenario 8: Research projects undertaken for your employer

Scenario 9: Give Speeches. Write books. Blog. Teach. Pursue a field of study.

SCENARIOS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
(and possibly the EMPLOYED)
to Reset to their Maximum by achieving sustained or serial top-talent flow

This collection of scenarios for resetting to your maximum capitalizes on the increased flexibility of the unemployed. The scenarios are grouped into two categories:
Scenarios 1-4: This set of contexts for biologically normalizing include assembling a company, buying a company, starting a company, or borrowing a company or job
Scenarios 5-7: This second category of scenarios is fashioned directly from the seven iconic founders of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon we have been examining in earlier articles. It is about releasing to your natural drives for growth, creation, frontiering™, and learning until you are able to commercialize them into paid play, often with the creation of a new field or frontier. This is the means to achieve your maximum lifetime legacy and really explore the outer limits of your capabilities.

Scenario 1: Assemble a mature virtual company from existing components:
companies, firms, professionals, technology, information systems, contractors, consultants, workforces, skills, and such.

This is one of my favourite techniques for quickly resetting my outplacement clients to their maximum to accelerate their job search process. A virtual organization is assembled to provide the perfect context to replicate one’s past maximum events. It should therefore comply with your findings from your Sourcing-Your-Savant exercise: your unpaid work, creation-pursuit, frontier-pursuit, and core-expansion themes and especially your historical formula for top-talent flow. Anything that does not help you to persist in serial top-talent flow states is outsourced. Anything that is more work than play is outsourced.
. Virtual company design
This scenario is not about starting and growing an entrepreneurial company from scratch. This is about melding fully operational units together as a mature company. Nor should this model be used to recreate a lost job. The job was lost due to system corrections which may have well have been instigated by the adaptivity needs of your own system. There is little future in trying to go against the flow of the maximizing process.

There should be lots of leaps propelling your forward. So even if you have only an emotional blueprint of the final company design or how it will feel, you can move at top speed to implement it. Partnering with the maximizing machinery will ensure that your natural growth path will become the company’s growth path.

The virtual company is intrinsically rewarding in and of itself. However it will also be one of the fastest ways to penetrate the hidden job market to close your ideal job. This will require a separate article to explain. Suffice it to say that your marketing efforts for selling your virtual company’s services will coincide with selling yourself into your ideal job.

Scenario 2: Buy a company with private equity

Scenario 3: Start an entrepreneurial company along your natural growth path

Scenario 4: Borrow a company and/or a job

Scenario 5: Free-form work driven by your unleashed top-talent drives:
. Unpaid-work , and knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit,
. frontiering-pursuit, core-expansion, and top-talent flow drives

A plethora of breakthroughs, coincidences, and leaps will pull you in unknown directions which in 20/20 hindsight will appear immensely logical and adaptive. You will find that your version of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or Apple will emerge.

Scenario 6: Analyzing and developing your ‘science’

Scenario 7: Pursue your lifetime legacy

Executive Job Search

JOB SEARCH BEFORE BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED JOB SEARCH TODAY’S EXECUTIVE JOB SEARCH STRATEGY The Hidden Job Market Networking or ‘stockpiling people’ for information and referrals Damage and dangers from job search networking Give-to-get networking Executive job search networks and job search work teams Psychological counseling for employer damage control

Today’s job search strategies seem to have been developed by non-executives and inflicted on executives by an industry committed to promoting them despite their historical failure. How can 1-2 years of daily damage and devaluing for executives to sell themselves into a new job signify success?

Job replacement used to be a career exception. Serial job replacement is now the rule. If we can accept that reality, we can stop trying to apply patches to the inefficiencies and damages inherent in today’s job search protocol. It is time for a total re-write. Proactive serial job replacement needs to be fully integrated into all career management strategy.

I have dedicated decades to executive career maximization. I have known many executives before and after job search. I used to be able to just pick up the pieces of the battle-worn job searcher once they returned to employment where my invoices were again covered. Unfortunately, I reached a tipping point. The destruction of an executive’s esprit de corps during job search is too heart-wrenching. There is too much loss on every side.

Some never recover either their former glory or their former performance levels. Some are never able to reinstate their previous quality of life personally or professionally. Too many are permanently scarred.

I felt compelled to create a new less damaging and more efficient job search protocol. Putting aside the personal devastation for each executive for a moment, it seems to me that this is no way to run the planet. How does it make sense to have your best and your brightest out of commission for a couple of years? Or irreparably damaged, for that matter?

These are our world-changers. We need them doing what they do, not destroyed by a job search seeking the opportunity to do what they do. If you were running the world the way you run your company, maximizing your human resources is management 101. Downtime of our leaders is a waste of key human assets.

In addition, the economy and the career needs of individuals are increasing the number of jobs if not careers that we have over a lifetime. Clearly we need improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, and humanity of our job search protocol.

It is time to stop tweaking the make-shift protocol that was designed decades ago to address the occasional need for job search. What was the exception is now the rule for the majority. We must now accept serial job replacement as a career constant. Consequently, we must now formally invent an appropriate job search protocol that is fully integrated into life-time career management strategies.

We need to make serial job replacement workable, rewarding, purposeful, and profitable. Ideally we need a method of serial job replacement which is high-growth, high-speed, and nourishing and fulfilling in and of itself. We need a paradigm shift in job search protocols.

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED JOB SEARCH

The paradigm shift into the biologically maximized career introduced in my previous posts, gave me a completely novel context from which to recommend job search strategy. What would a biologically maximized job search look like for executives? But wait. Biological maximization is holistic.

There would not be the need for a separate job search process. It would already be integrated. Job losses or leaps would simply be part of neutral system corrections to improve system maximization or to solve maximization challenges. Therefore they could be foreseeable. They could be capitalized upon as with all partnering with the maximizing machinery.

What could these neutral system corrections be used for? Quantum leaps in growth? Repositioning for greater performance? Wealth creation? Could it be that we could not just protect ourselves from the damage of today’s job search but become so good at serial job replacement that it could be proactively used for profit and gain? I therefore sought to create a high-growth, high-speed, job search process that actually accelerated executive careers and the growth of their baseline functionality.

This became so exciting and successful that I gradually began to build proactive job replacement into my career maximization strategies. Soon every client employment contract was negotiated to maximize the benefits of a new serial job replacement process. Serial severance packages and signing bonuses became a pivotal wealth-creation tool and a signature of my executive career partnering services. This was indeed excellent lemonade from what had previously been a serious career lemon.

However, one must be very good at job creation or job replacement before one may partake of this lemonade. I will need to provide extensive instructions to help you to make this paradigm shift with serial job replacement proficiency. Therefore, I have broken these instructions up into a number of articles.

This first article merely gives us a common understanding of today’s executive job search and indicates some of its inefficiencies and damaging aspects. The next article provides a comparison of today’s executive job search with that of the new biologically maximizing paradigm. Articles beyond that will start to get more practical to help those wanting to apply the new model. Let’s get started.

TODAY’S EXECUTIVE JOB SEARCH STRATEGY

Today’s job search strategies seem to be based on the sales approaches of the insurance industry developed sixty years ago. Cold-calling and relationship-building techniques that are used to build entire insurance-agent careers are applied to a small job-search project. The same amount of time and effort required to develop a network to launch the lifetime career of a real estate, insurance or executive search agent must be applied to develop a network for a single job search project.

With this much front-end effort, the ROI will therefore be considerably less for this job search project. This is especially the case when neither the development of the skills nor the end products are likely to be more than nice-to-haves when one returns to one’s real career.

Obviously today’s job search protocol is massively inefficient. In addition, today’s job search industry appears to have grown up around administrative staff and well-meaning counselors. It emerged to protect firing employers with deep pockets. There were few executives or strategists developing the field or taking into consideration how executives operate. So again, it is not been designed for efficiency for the executive target market.

The average job seeker may find a new job in six to seven months. Executives, however, may take one to two years. U.S. Department of Labor statistics suggest job search duration may increase one month for each $10,000 in desired income. Therefore, an executive making $150,000 would be expected to be in job search around fifteen months.

Imagine whom you might become in a year of fear, devaluing, humiliation, and most importantly, not doing meaningful work. A s I have alluded in a previous article with respect to Steve Jobs, “the blocking of creative expression may be the greatest cause of illness in [high-achieving] executives”. I do not like to even have my executive clients retire without some channel for the application of their strongest talents to meaningful work for the audience or context that will value it most.

Only about 15-20% of jobs are advertised on internet job banks and in other publications. Responding to job advertisements is not a good use of executive time and talent. Many are ill-equipped for the technical savvy and menial repetitive work required to pursue advertised jobs.

Not only may this approach dampen their spirits but it may damage their stature in their work communities. Again, we are seeing the flaws of what has evolved as job search protocol. These flaws likely would have been avoided if a protocol had been specifically designed for executives.

The Hidden Job Market

The hidden job market accounts for perhaps 80-85% of all executive hires. Therefore, this should be a key target of any re-written job search protocol. These are positions that are filled before they are advertised and may not even involve the Human Resources department. The hiring manager makes the decision.

Perhaps s/he has an idea for growing the organization, and seeks a prospective employee through her/his network. Perhaps someone has quit unexpectedly creating a gap that must be filled immediately. Or the company might have landed a major new client and needs to hire immediately.

There may be neither time nor money for either advertising the job or working through a recruiter. Positions may also be created for candidates who come to an employer’s attention through employee recommendations, referrals from trusted associates, direct inquiries, and the networking efforts of a job seeker.

Therefore, contacting companies and their respective line decision-makers is a great way to gain inroads and initiate discussions that lead to interviews. Any effective executive job search campaign should focus 80-100% of its time, resources, and strategy to addressing this hidden job market. An opportunity-seeking mindset is therefore an asset. Proposing a project may create the job for which you are hired. Job creation then should be a key part of the job-search-protocol redesign.

Networking **or ‘stockpiling people’ for information and referrals**

The most touted strategy for looking for work in the ‘hidden job market’ is networking. This is a marketing campaign where employers are the buyers, and you are the product. Cold marketing means that you apply to employers who do not know you. Thus you are ‘going in cold.’ Warm marketing engages an intermediary known to the employer to introduce and vouchsafe for you.

As a result, you receive a ‘warm welcome’ instead of a cooler reception. A lot of focus must be paid to defining the job you are seeking. Next you research to find potential contacts associated with those companies. And finally you need to have a strategy for getting to those contacts either for the job directly or to refer you or , at minimum, to join your network. It is then ideal to have a customized resumé for each of those approaches.

Given the greater success of warm marketing referrals over cold calling, a networking strategy is promoted. Networking is a way of leveraging the people you already know to get introduced to decision makers at employers you would consider working for. When done with finesse, you are not asking your network contacts for a job. Rather, you are seeking information that may lead to a job.

Networking is about building and maintaining relationships with the people around us. Theoretically, the more people you know, the more people that the people you know are connected with, and the more relevant they are, the more powerful your network. Job-hunting is now billed as a contact sport. And networking is obviously a numbers game.

As an information source, networking is pretty inefficient. As suggested above, your ROI is going to be extremely low for the efforts invested to find, attract, and maintain the people in your network. This will need to be addressed in any new job search protocol. It would be more efficient to be able to access the right information at the right time rather than stockpiling people on the off-chance that they discover information that may help you with your job search.

Damage and dangers from job search networking

The most successful executives and managers are great networkers. Unfortunately, many executive job seekers who use their work network for job search destroy the very relationships they need to actually do their new job once they get it. Executives need a certain stature to operate at this most senior level. Using their work network from their weakened state or stature as a job hunter may change how they are perceived by their network and, worse, how they perceive themselves.

Personal power is critical at executive levels and one may not recover either inside of oneself or outside with one’s network if you use your work network for your job search. For example, if you have always been the magnanimous feeder of your network, asking for job-search favors outside of your usual protocol may make relationships awkward and reveal that relationships are limited to the existing protocol or formula or are not reciprocal.

Your relationships may not have the ability to adapt to a new formulation and the old channel is destroyed while you find this out. My advice is to refrain from beating yourself up for not networking to find your desired job. If you normally have good throughput, then you are likely not procrastinating when you avoid networking. You are sensing real danger in pursuing this highly promoted job search strategy.

Historically, how many times did overruling this resistance to action work out for you? I suspect that it never did. I trust your gut! To back it up, use the Sourcing Your Savant exercise criteria to make a rational unemotional decision based on the historical evidence. Remember, the job search industry began with counselors, administrative personnel, career managers, HR people, and executive search consultants. Not an executive among them. Trust your instincts and your history. Operate from your strengths and your maximized state.

Give-to-get networking

There must be mutual gain in networking. Many executives have delicately balanced quid-pro-quo relationships in business. This is how business has traditionally been done. There may be permanent repercussions from seeking help from individuals in your work network. ‘Friends’ in your last job may be competitively threatened personally or for their companies by placing you back into a powerful position.

Putting friendship aside, it may be a savvy business strategy for them to keep you from getting into a power position which may diminish their company’s profits. Unfortunately, they may proactively pursue that strategy using their own work network to block your job search. Your losses will be compounded if their work network is the same as yours. However, your vendor networks may want exactly the opposite.

If you are likely to use a new job to bring them business, they will happily flex their executive muscle to put you into a position of power with one of their customers. Many large vendors may even have the power and influence to have a current incumbent removed to create a vacancy for you. At minimum, they may offer you an office and resources on their premises for your job search because it is in their interest to do so.

But understand, quid pro quo will be expected or there may be negative repercussions when you are re-employed. Hopefully, the new job search design will not only circumvent the inefficiencies but the dangers of networking.

It would be ideal to formalize more direct sources of information into the new job-search-protocol redesign. There are also a lot of undesirable menial and administrative tasks inherent in both networking itself and addressing the hidden job market. These need to be eliminated or minimized in the new design.

Executive job search networks and job search work teams

Support networks of fellow job seekers may be good for many. I therefore differentiate them from both your network which supports your work and your main job search network where you are asking contacts for referrals, job information, or jobs. These are pay-it-forward organizations where support and shared information are encouraged from peers in transition.

The intent is that job openings are shared and warm introductions of fellow members to potential employers are encouraged. However, I think the real value is in the shared experience, shared learning, inspiration, and emotional support. For the duration of your job search, these are your peers and colleagues. This is a very different network which deserves cultivation. Below are some examples:

HAPPEN Canada’s largest networking group for executives in career transition
The Executive Network Group of Greater Chicago
Exec-U-Net
Executives Network
Senior Executive Networking Group: New England
Technology Executives Networking Group
Technology Leaders Association
Kettering Executive Network

Psychological counseling for employer damage control: . . . . .The dangers of letting someone inside your head

Psychological counseling harks back to the origins of job search support where employers needed de-hires defused of the emotions which would cause them to initiate legal cases against them. The laws have changed to make this less of a threat. However, the inclusion of psychological practice persists. Most executives know who they are and their strengths and weaknesses. They will resiliently recover if they can quickly engage in thrilling work rather than the menial tasks inherent in today’s job search methodology.

If you have never needed someone messing with your head, protect yourself in your temporarily weakened jobless state. You are an accomplished executive who deals with major challenges and setbacks every day. Why start needing help now. I am very protective of some psychological counselor suggesting flaws in one my clients as a cause of their job loss. In my experience, psychological counseling is one of the major sources of damage in reviewing executive clients coming out of a traditional job search process.

Remember, in biological terms, the loss of a job is just a system correction. That system could be the employer, the executive, the industry, or the markets. You will come to know that these corrections are neutral and foreseeable by watching the signposts of the maximizing machinery.

Any ‘mistakes’ that seem to have been made by the executive are simply neutral reflections of the need for a system correction. It could be that s/he needs to find a better context for continuing their biologically maximized career. It could be that they made the leap to a wider expansion of impact, talent, and power around their greatest strengths and they need a bigger context that reflects their bigger system. Again, the correction is neutral.

In the biologically maximized career, your de-hiring is a neutral information feedback event for moving to your next level of operation. If you were-de-hired, there were likely many signposts in reality of a pending system correction.

As you learn these signposts, you will be able to proactively take action in the future to capitalize on the correction or to prevent or minimize negative or damaging events resulting from it. This will make a commitment to serial job replacement not only possible, not only profitable, not only strategic, not only adaptive, but also safe.

I invite you to proceed to the next job search article to see a comparison of the old and new job search paradigms and protocols.

FURTHER READING:
Serial Job Replacement™ – A Career Game-Changer

SOURCING YOUR SAVANT – Hyper-Focus your Career on your Genius

Excerpt from BioMaxed, (2019), Chapter 9: Sourcing your Savant: Hyper-Focus your Career on your Genius (2013) by Lauren Holmes

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED CAREER DISCOVER YOUR SAVANT FORMULA EXAMINE TWELVE CATEGORIES OF YOUR PAST MAXIMUMS WHAT TO LOOK FOR THE TWELVE EVENT THEMES FOR SOURCING YOUR SAVANT LEARN ALL TWELVE CATEGORIES TEST YOUR SAVANT FORMULA HYPOTHESIS FOR PREDICTABILITY HYPER-FOCUS YOUR CAREER ON YOUR GENIUS

Releasing your inner savant requires operating at your maximum. Mechanisms and processes have evolved inside of us and outside which are committed to maximizing living systems for survival.

When one complies with this internal-external ‘machinery’ to allow oneself to be maximized, magic happens. The internal links with the external. Circuits inside and out complete. Processes partner. Mechanisms mesh. Systems synergize and synchronize. Synchronicities surge. Coincidences cluster to catapult you to your goals. Results far exceed the linear projection from one’s start point. The whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts.

Your internal potential is extended by the external capabilities of both the maximizing machinery and the other systems that it orchestrates. You are able to operate beyond your innate potential. You have sourced your savant (see The New Career Maximums Part One). The exercises in this article are designed to identify your personal formula for operating in your savant state. We need only examine your past savant moments to generate more of them in your future.

Careers have been made through a few flashes of genius. Worlds have been changed. Discover your potential planetary footprint before you dilute it for other life and career priorities.

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED CAREER

1.    If we removed all restrictions and provided you with every freedom and resource, what could the ‘maximized you’ accomplish?
2.    What is the work for which you are “biologically predisposed to excel” and “biologically predisposed to crave”?
3.    What would your career become if you applied your strongest most rewarding talents on their most meaningful, impactful, and valued application over a lifetime?
4.    What would your career become if those talents were to continuously upgrade over your lifetime at your maximum possible growth rate?
5.    What could you accomplish if you only focused on the application and growth of your strongest talents over a lifetime?

In The Secret Career Strategy of the World’s Most Successful Executives, we learned about the biologically maximized career from the seven iconic founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Google Facebook, and Apple: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, and the two Steves, Jobs and Wozniak, respectively.

In The New Career Maximums Parts One and Two, we discovered that the careers of these seven super-achievers were peppered with world-changing breakthroughs reflective of savant states. We learned how the compliance of these seven icons to biological maximizing processes led them to lead addictive careers of serial breakthroughs, serial frontiering™ or scaling of new frontiers, serial growth, serial creations, serial emotional highs, and serial flow states caused by operating at their biological maximum applying their strongest, most rewarding talents to their most meaningful creations.

Their sudden-knowledge leaps included flashes of genius, “Aha!” and “Eureka!” events, sudden insights, sudden knowledge, sudden creativity, creative inspirations, intuitive leaps, epiphanies, and enlightenment. Even a few of these have made careers life-changing and world-changing. What could your career become with serial breakthroughs? We learned how and why even those of ordinary intelligence may cultivate this savantism. Use the unprecedented exercises below to source your inner savant for exceptional work and an exceptional career.

DISCOVER YOUR SAVANT FORMULA

Your maximum state is a constant. Nature’s processes and mechanisms for maximizing living systems for survival is also a constant. Therefore the maximizing machinery will be very consistent as to how it pressures your system to operate at its maximum. Accordingly, it will be predictably consistent as to which projects and work and career goals it will facilitate or thwart. This predictability is harnessable for greater career success and greater lifetime achievement. It gives you the means to garner the support of the maximizing process and the systems under its purview to achieve beyond your potential.

If we know how maximizing forces have pressured your system in the past, we will know how they will pressure your system going forward. You can capitalize on this consistency and predictability. You can predict the future from your past. Imagine knowing in advance that a project will succeed or fail. Predictability enables project and goal selections which will have a greater chance of success. As a corollary, it also means you will not be damaged by choosing projects that will be opposed by the maximizing flow. Let’s begin now to examine historically the circumstances around your past peak performances and breakthroughs. We may then develop a savant formula to repeat, accelerate, and amplify exceptional performance in the future.

EXAMINE 12 CATEGORIES OF YOUR PAST MAXIMUMS

Let’s get down to determining your formula for your biologically maximized career. This exercise is far more powerful than any existing testing for talents or aptitudes. This is because it is about identifying what nature considers your biological maximum. We would therefore expect indicators of support by the maximizing machinery to emerge when you are applying your strongest most gratifying talents to their most meaningful, impactful, and valued application. Your maximum. You would especially achieve your maximum if you were operating at in a peak performance flow state that has emerged while you are using and improving those top talents.

In this exercise you will analyze one or more of these twelve categories of events from your recent past, or, if necessary, all the way back to your childhood. This is possible because the formula of each of the twelve categories and all of the twelve will be consistent over your lifetime. The maximizing machinery is consistent in how it supports and opposes your system because your system has a single maximum and that is its goal state. You will uncover several consistent patterns of events from your past. You are about to discover a level of order in your life that you may not have noticed yet.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Indicators of operating at your maximum

The maximizing machinery’s sole goal is to maximize you. Anything that will help to accomplish that goal will be supported. Anything contrary to that goal will be opposed or thwarted in an attempt to pressure you into a better direction for survival. You can only merge with the maximizing machinery when you are moving in the direction of your maximum. That is when the magic happens. Circuits otherwise inaccessible will complete. In The New Career Maximums Part Two, we learned that there are always clusters of coincidences and other information leaps all along the integrated flow of living systems maximizing and re-maximizing to changing contexts.

Your formula or strategy for the future
Therefore, we only need to identify those events from your past where there was breakthrough synthesis inside or outside of you. These events will tell us when you were maximized and integrated into the maximizing flow. When we analyze these events for themes, we will know when the maximizing flow was supporting you and thus when it will support you in the future. We will then be able to develop a formula for you to attain your biologically maximized career. We will have a formula for sourcing your inner savant and getting paid for it.

Serial top-talent flow states
Any events in which you went into flow state around the use or improvement of strongest, most rewarding talents – your maximum performance – would be examples of you operating at your biological maximum. They would provide the best indicators of what your formula should be going forward. There will be lots of indicators of being supported by the machinery in this state. Examine those events as a model of what to look for. These top-talent flow states will define your biological maximum.

You advance reality: world-changing creativity, creation, upgrades, and innovations
The events you will be studying in your past must all impact, advance, or change reality in some way. You will find that the maximizing indicators will confirm support for ‘work’ events associated with creativity, innovation, or creation. We are obviously meant to be creative beings participating in the perpetual creative flow of the maximizing machinery that drives nature.

Savant-like Information leaps inside or outside of you:
♦ serial coincidences and other facilitators that speed/enhance progress
♦ serial breakthroughs:
. “Aha!” and “Eureka!” events, flashes of genius, epiphanies
. sudden knowledge, sudden insight, intuitive leaps, enlightenment
. sudden creativity, sudden creation, creative inspirations
♦ leaps to emotional highs

Your top-talent flow states or maximized state will be filled with breakthrough leaps such as the above. These leaps belie the creative process that is solving maximizing challenges. This creative process is one of re-combining existing information systems to create new information systems.

This breakthrough synthesis is the essence of nature’s creativity. It is how living systems adapt to their environment. It is how they re-maximize once a context has changed. These leaps or breakthrough syntheses or maximizing flow that facilitate survival are what you will be looking for in one or more of the twelve categories of pat evens you are about to analyze. You will be looking for the times that you collided with the breakthrough synthesis of the maximizing machinery for living systems. The machinery or maximizing flow is what orchestrates you to the right information at the right time for the breakthrough or leap.

Savant-like Performance leaps and achieving beyond your norm
Events in which we shift into our top-talent flow states are also leaps. They are leaps to peak performance and peak growth. They are leaps to altered consciousness. They are leaps to maximization. They are leaps to unification in which theoretically 100% of your body’s resources are trained on the activity at hand – an activity that is adaptive for your system.

Serial frontiering™ into unknown territory
Obviously, if you attached to nature’s breakthrough synthesis, you are going to be continually penetrating new territory. You will therefore want to look at the kinds of territories that you felt comfortable penetrating the unknown in your past. That is your internal system telling you what is natural to you as part of your biological maximum. This is especially true if you are normally fearful of moving into unknown territory.

Serendipitous projects accelerated by maximizing magic
You will be looking for past projects or work that seems to complete as if by magic. These will be events in which the road seems to rise up to meet you. You will be looking for the themes, the commonalities, and the formulas for these events so you can choose your projects and goals to capitalize on them. Again, you want to determine what kind of activities, projects, and goals are supported. You will be looking for the very events that you want to increase in your future.

THE 12 EVENT THEMES FOR SOURCING YOUR SAVANT

You are now ready to choose one or more of the below categories to analyze for your best formula for a biologically maximized career which benefits from your savant capabilities. Twelve categories of events are provided below to give you a way to examine times in your past when you successfully partnered with the maximizing flow. All twelve categories are interchangeable. All twelve patterns of events will point you in the same direction. Therefore, go with the flow. Choose the one(s) which feel easiest for you or provide you with the most information.

How to focus your career on your genius

Investigate twelve interchangeable historical patterns of events or themes for when maximizing mechanisms facilitated or opposed your ‘work’-related achievements:

1    Unpaid Work Theme:    2013 text
events of work you crave so much that you would do it for free
2    Two Knowledge Themes:    2013 text
a) sudden-knowledge theme: in what domains do your leaps in sudden knowledge occur? b) knowledge-pursuit theme: the knowledge you naturally crave
4    Frontier-Pursuit Theme:    2013 text
events in which you felt compelled to penetrate new unknown territories of growth, learning, creation, and achievement despite fear of the unknown.
5    Two Creativity/Creation Themes:    2013 text
a) sudden-creativity theme: your pattern of leaps to sudden creativity b) creation-pursuit theme: the creations or creativity you crave or the key creative expression of your system
7    Meaning-Pursuit Theme:    2013 text
the meaningful work or contributions you crave to make
8    Top-Talent Flow Theme:    2013 text
events where flow state emerged during the application of your strongest most preferred talents.
9    Projects Theme:    2013 text
. projects in which maximizing signs occurred: serial breakthroughs, serial frontiering™, serial top-talent flow events, leaps in knowledge/creativity, positive emotions, coincidences
10    Core-Expansion Theme:    2013 text
expansions or intensifications of your system around its core strengths thus increasing its impact on reality
11    Resonance Theme:    2013 text
frequency-sensing events which allowed you to operate in the unknown as if from total knowledge based on frequency sensing.
12    Positive Emotions:    2013 text
events in which passion, excitement, and enthusiasm emerged during work that impacted reality in some way.
No Themes:    2013 text
. If you have lived your life directed by external elements (externally referenced) rather than complying with your natural addictive drives internally (internally referenced) you will have less consistent patterns or fewer of them to help you with these life themes exercises.

CHOOSE TO LEARN ALL TWELVE CATEGORIES
There is an important reason why you will eventually want to investigate all twelve categories. This is because this will not be a one-time exercise. It will become your new routine modus operandi. You will analyze immediate events as they happen to choose the direction that will keep you hugging the flow of the maximizing process. Repeating the exercise for more current events will be the way you will read, merge into, and capitalize on the maximizing machinery going forward.

These twelve analyses will provide the information that you need for your daily decision-making, goal-setting, and goal achievement. You will know what kind of job choices and careers will not work for you. In addition, models from one category may be more useful for some goals than others. Therefore, the larger your database of historical models from all twelve categories, the more information you will have to draw on to capitalize on the maximizing machinery daily. If you feel as if an event is a maximum model from your past but you cannot figure it out, try looking at it from the perspective of some of the other categories.

Your inventory of past models from all twelve categories will give information for you to move safely and expediently into unknown territory where no other information is available. You will not have to have specific information on the new territory. You will know you are going in the right direction based on the indicators of the maximizing flow. You know you will be moving with the trends of all of the systems that the maximizing flow is synchronizing and synergizing. You will therefore be part of a dynamic stability. You will be moving with your support systems. This will make you a frontiering™ expert with maximum adaptivity and creativity. Try to learn enough from these past events in all twelve categories so that you have the information, power, and ideal direction to succeed at any frontiering™ project you might want to undertake.

Knowing all twelve categories will put you into a better position to apply your greatest talents to make your greatest impact on our world. You will have more information to amass your greatest physical, emotional, and meaning rewards and leave your greatest legacy. And, as a corollary, you will also learn where not to pursue goals. You will have a broader knowledge of what projects will not be supported. You will know what kind of job choices and careers will not work for you. You will know what will cause blocks and negative experiences in your life.

This exercise is not only important for understanding your own system but for capitalizing on any human system you lead to achieve goals. No matter which events clients tell me about I can extrapolate their personal themes backwards or forwards to know what likely occurred in their past and to know how they may more sure-footedly and more impactfully proceed into the future.

Future articles will present new ways to use the historical themes of any human system – a company, country, or humanity – to achieve goals. It will rewrite leadership, leadership development, organizational development, innovation, project management, change management, talent management, and certainly career management. Thus, to repeat, there will be advantages to learning all twelve of these categories or patterns or themes of events.

TEST YOUR SAVANT FORMULA HYPOTHESIS FOR PREDICTABILITY
Once you have analyzed your past pattern of events for themes and commonalities, try to develop a prescription or formula for replicating that level of performance in the future. Then test out your hypothesis and adjust it until your results become predictably successful. Test out your formula until the expected indicators of operating at your maximum within the maximizing flow increase dramatically. Once you have confirmed the reliability of your formula in safe ways using less critical goals, then run your work and your career in compliance with it. Choose goals and projects that will be supported by the maximizing machinery. Compare your results with projects that you know have not been historically supported. How early on in an unsupported project are you able to determine it will not be successful and get out of it?

HYPER-FOCUS YOUR CAREER ON YOUR GENIUS

Some people have a sense since childhood that they are meant to be world-changing. They are meant to advance the world in a meaningful and impactful way. If you are one of these people, this exercise has now given you the means to commit to a career at your biological maximum. It has given you the means to hyper-focus your career on your genius. It has given you the means to follow in the footsteps of our seven iconic founders of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple to create a career which keeps you operating at savant levels around your greatest strengths while continuously improving them.

It has given you your formula for leaving your largest most impactful, most meaningful contribution to the world. It has given you your formula for serial breakthroughs, serial leaps to genius, serial top-talent flow states, serial frontiering™, and serial growth in functionality and creations. You have the formula for operating beyond your potential by extending your capabilities with those of nature’s maximizing process for the survival of living systems and indeed all of these systems that it synchronizes and synergizes. So now the question to ask yourself is what will your career look like from the age of 85 in a rocking chair when you have grown and created at your maximum?

What will be your legacy? What is the creativity, or the creations, or impact on the world that your greatest talents operating at full power after years of concentrated growth could achieve? If you could leave any legacy from your personal creativity, talents, and invention, what would that look like? If you were going to advance the world with your greatest strengths, what would that look like? Now that you have defined your maximum, it is up to you how much you want to fall short of that maximum for other priorities in your life. What must you achieve to sit satisfied in your rocking chair at 85?

FURTHER READING:
The Secret Career Strategy of the World’s Most Successful Executives
The New Career Maximums – Part One – Are you Settling for too Little?
The New Career Maximums – Part Two – Are you Settling for too Little?

Superstars stay in their genius lane

SAVANT DOMAINS FROM CHILDHOOD

“Control” of nature versus “compliance”

THE CHILDHOODS OF OUR SUPERACHIEVERS

Shaping evolution

Purpose

SAVANTING’S BIOLOGY-DRIVEN PURPOSE

DETERMINING YOUR BIOLOGY-DRIVEN PURPOSE

An intrinsically rewarding purpose

The Ultimate Career Strategy

What do the founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook teach us?

Chasing the success formula

The intrinsically-driven career

A nonlinear career path

The biology factor

The biologically maximized career

What do the founders of Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook teach us?

CHASING THE SUCCESS FORMULA

THE INTRINSICALLY-DRIVEN CAREER

A NONLINEAR CAREER PATH

THE BIOLOGY FACTOR

THE BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED CAREER

Have you experienced it?

MY PERSPECTIVE

EXPLOIT NATURE’S SELF-ORGANIZING FOR SYNERGY AND SURVIVAL

SOURCE THE RIGHT CLIENT AT THE RIGHT TIME?

CLIENT CLUSTERING?

ACCESS MORE COACHING INSIGHTS

YOUR EXPERIENCE?

RESET SCENARIOS for the UNEMPLOYED

RESET SCENARIOS for the EMPLOYED

To reset to their maximum by achieving sustained or serial top-talent flow

Scenario 1: Redesign your existing job

Scenario 2: Take a different job that already exists within your current employer

Scenario 3: Create a new job within your employer

Scenario 4: Create a new project or new venture within your current employer

Scenario 5: Take an active Board of Director position with an outside company

Scenario 6: Work for a charity or not-for-profit after work

Scenario 7: Cultivate a hobby outside of work in which you can maximize

Scenario 8: Research projects undertaken for your employer

Scenario 9: Give Speeches. Write books. Blog. Teach. Pursue a field of study

To Outperform your Potential

Strategy

Targets

Tactics

. Participate in proactive breakthrough synthesis

Additional miscellaneous tactics for the reset-to-your-maximum exercise

Scenario 1: Redesign your existing job

Scenario 2: Take a different job within your current employer that already exists

Scenario 3: Create a new job within your employer

Scenario 4: Create a new project or new venture within your current employer

Scenario 5: Take an active Board of Director position with an outside company

Scenario 6: Work for a charity or not-for-profit after work

Scenario 7: Cultivate a hobby outside of work in which you can maximize

Scenario 8: Research projects undertaken for your employer

Scenario 9: Give Speeches. Write books. Blog. Teach. Pursue a field of study.

Scenario 2: Buy a company with private equity

Scenario 3: Start an entrepreneurial company along your natural growth path

Scenario 4: Borrow a company and/or a job

Scenario 5: Free-form work driven by your unleashed top-talent drives: . Unpaid-work , and knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit,. frontiering-pursuit, core-expansion, and top-talent flow drives

Scenario 6: Analyzing and developing your ‘science’

Scenario 7: Pursue your lifetime legacy

JOB SEARCH BEFORE BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED JOB SEARCH

TODAY’S EXECUTIVE JOB SEARCH STRATEGY

The Hidden Job Market

Networking or ‘stockpiling people’ for information and referrals

Damage and dangers from job search networking

Give-to-get networking

Executive job search networks and job search work teams

Psychological counseling for employer damage control: . . . . .The dangers of letting someone inside your head

A BIOLOGICALLY MAXIMIZED CAREER

DISCOVER YOUR SAVANT FORMULA

EXAMINE 12 CATEGORIES OF YOUR PAST MAXIMUMS

WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Indicators of operating at your maximum

THE 12 EVENT THEMES FOR SOURCING YOUR SAVANT

HYPER-FOCUS YOUR CAREER ON YOUR GENIUS

EXPLOIT NATURE’S SELF-ORGANIZING
FOR SYNERGY AND SURVIVAL

Scenario 5: Free-form work driven by your unleashed top-talent drives:
. Unpaid-work , and knowledge-pursuit, creation-pursuit,
. frontiering-pursuit, core-expansion, and top-talent flow drives

Networking **or ‘stockpiling people’ for information and referrals**