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Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Jim Carrey. What do they have in common? Deep analyses by executive career maximizer Lauren Holmes show they all achieved their success using Savanting’s biology-driven protocol.

Savanting exploits the biology behind how savants outperform their potential – how they achieve incredible feats of genius from deficient brains theoretically incapable of them. We saw this juxtaposed brilliance and deficit with the world’s most beloved savant, Raymond Babbitt, brilliantly portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 1988 Best Picture, Rain Man.

Yet savant superskills hint at capabilities of the human brain most have never experienced. Savanting makes savant genius accessible. This unprecedented protocol empowers brilliant breakthroughs from the nonbrilliant; vision from nonvisionaries; and extraordinary execution from the execution-challenged.

But above all, it releases creativity from noncreatives. Savanting renders all current methods for cultivating creativity obsolete. Studies show we’re born 98% creative. Entry into our school systems reduces us to 2% creative by age 7. Savanting reactivates our innate creativity by returning us to the way we were born to operate before cultural interference.

Creativity increases in flow state. Savanting’s power derives from a subset of the flow state identified by psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi in his 1991 bestseller, “Flow: The Optimal Experience.” Lauren calls this specialized subset “savantflow.” The “savant brain” and the “savantflow brain” yield similar savant superskills.

Studies show that each of us has one domain in which we exhibit significant creativity. Coincidentally, savants also excel in only one domain. Savanting helps you to discover and develop your domain for creativity, breakthroughs, and flashes of genius.

Steve Jobs is synonymous with creativity. Bill Gates is not. Would it surprise you to learn that Lauren’s comparative analysis confirms that Gates is at least as creative as Jobs? Bill’s unique brand of creativity went undetected by critics who mistakenly assumed the creativity domains of rivals Jobs and Gates were the same.

One’s creativity domain needs to be the foundational strategy for one’s most rewarding career and life. All six superachievers demonstrate this. Jeff Bezos appears eclectic in his pursuits. Lauren shows that he has been creatively forwarding a singular domain since childhood. As a result, even the ever-venturing Jeff Bezos is predictable. Based on his prowess in his creativity domain, you’ll want to invest where Jeff invests.

This savant-inspired protocol is also a faster more reliable means to achieve mankind’s most sought-after goals. Savanting is the most expedient route to self-actualization in existence today. Continuous self-transcendence is built in. Extreme self-knowledge; sustained, self-sufficient self-love and happiness; wholeness; enlightenment; expanded consciousness; and true biology-driven purpose and potential. As the book’s final chapters reveal, these are byproducts of the savanting modus operandi.

Lauren Holmes developed savanting after interviewing over 300 global change executives in a compressed period of time. The shared way of working she observed was then filtered through the lens of her degree in biological anthropology and her subsequent specialization in career and talent maximization.

Needless to say, Lauren has similarly focused her education and career on her own creativity domain to develop this unique maximization methodology. In Savanting: Outperforming your Potential, Lauren shares discovery and invention which she was biologically predisposed to pursue. She too outperforms her assumed potential in her personal creativity domain.

SAVANTING: Outperforming your Potential — Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jim Carrey, Oprah, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates

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.

Creativity: Jobs vs Gates?

Creativity from NonCreatives

Excerpt from Savanting: Outperforming your Potential, Chapter 15 (2019) by Lauren Holmes

Almost all creativity requires purposeful play. Abraham Maslow

While “innovation” improves an existing system, “creativity” merges existing information systems to generate an entirely new unprecedented system. In Chapter 3, I noted that American cognitive psychologist Howard Gardner claimed that we are only creative in one or a few domains in which we have expertise. Therefore, before you label yourself uncreative, it’s important to assume you are only creative in your savant domain.

In addition, researchers such as Harvard’s Teresa Amabile have studies which show that creativity increases during flow states. Because of biological maximization, bioflow compliance, and activity fusion, savantflows will increase creativity even more.

Therefore, in your savant domain you might be tremendously creative, especially if the bioflow is feeding you the right information at the right time to fuel it. With savanting, even noncreatives may become creative. Simply choose savant-domain activities which will incite savantflows. This is the formula for your greatest creations.

Many assume Steve Jobs is synonymous with creativity and Bill Gates is not. Yet, both men changed the world. Let’s explore these assumptions to see what we can learn about savanting’s creativity and how to exploit it for your own worldchanging creations.

Bill’s creativity questioned

Steve Jobs said of Gates, “Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology.” “He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”[i]

Yale University computer science professor, David Gelernter, wrote in “Time” magazine in 1998 that he believes Gates is overrated as a pioneer and entrepreneur. “Bill Gates is an American unoriginal.” “It can be wiser to follow than to lead.” Gelernter contends that Microsoft often makes products by re-combining ideas that already exist in the marketplace.

Isn’t this the very definition of creativity in the savanting paradigm? Steve Jobs’ own definition confirms it: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”

Bill Gates’ genius arises from his talent for re-combining entities throughout his life to generate the unprecedented – software programs, businesses, organizations, industries, governments, OED computer manufacturers, philanthropists, charitable organizations, and so on as he aged. His creativity can’t be confined to Jobs’ limited world of device invention.

In the infancy of Microsoft before Bill’s consciousness had expanded, he could address the creation of a program or later, the re-combining of existing programs, to invent a new program which he would then modify and enhance.

However, with years of savantflows triggering the expansion of his consciousness, Gates’ ability to re-combine what exists expanded to larger entities. Jobs savant domain and creativity was more like that of savants – narrow but deep. Comparing the creativity of the two men is like comparing an “Apple” to an orange.

Someone laid down the early structures of the personal computing and software industries – the licensing, structure, standards, and rules of operation behind it. Creativity occurred. Can anyone really suggest Bill Gates was not the key creator? Especially as he does the same for the field of philanthropy and through it to many aspects of the infrastructure underpinning our society.

There can be little doubt about Bill’s talent for generating the foundations for new frontiers, governments, organizations, industries, and markets. Microsoft thrived locked into the marketplace by Bill’s brilliant business constructs, innovations, and partnerships which made its less-than-stellar technology number one.

Because Jobs did not recognize Bill’s creativity beyond technology, he did not cultivate it in himself. This was undoubtedly a contributing factor to his being fired from Apple for a decade and the creation of a culture which took Apple to the brink of bankruptcy. The brilliance of Job’s design required him to relentlessly commit to a narrow focus. This dedicated focus is a key contributor to the brilliance of his designs.

Is Jobs’ creativity different?

The executive summary

Let me overview my response to this question before going into detail with examples. Both entrepreneurs had the same intent – to better the lives of individuals en masse. Both were merged within the bioflow evolving the human race, so they generated products at the forefront of humanity’s evolution. Both were being fed the right information at the right time by the bioflow to catalyze creativity in their respective savant domains.

Their missions overlapped for most of their careers in the field of personal computing, which – as we have already seen with their success outside of that field – did not define either of their savant domains. The creativity of Jobs and Gates are, by definition, the same. Both re-combined existing systems to create an unprecedented system.

However, how they arrived at their end results was different. Jobs used more creative inspiration where the creative re-combination occurred in his head. It was achieved by breakthroughs fueled by information systems from the bioflow. His quote earlier in the chapter reinforces an internal remix.

Gates, on the other hand, used more logic with the re-combining information occurring externally. It was fueled by coincidences, models and facilitating people and events generated by the bioflow. His creativity was more action-based.

Their savant domains are different. Bill’s is broad and big picture. Steve’s was narrow, deep and detailed. Bill’s consciousness or span of purview was significantly wider. This increased his source of fuel for his creations and the information systems he re-combined were bigger.

Gates built the Microsoft product line and business through partnering and inclusion for shared prosperity. Jobs’ strategy was more isolating by design. He structured Apple initially to have an exclusive, proprietary, and independent product line which did not mesh well with others.

However, he seemed to model Gates’ inclusion approach when he returned to Apple to rescue it from bankruptcy after his ten-year absence. Pixar’s work with Disney and others may also have contributed to his transformation as well.

Jobs came to allow others to generate applications for his exclusive product line which helped him to defeat competition such as Blackberry which followed Jobs into exclusion but missed his redirection to inclusion. Blackberry missed the app bandwagon that saved Apple – especially with its iPhone market penetration. Without a plethora of device-compliant applications, functionality and personalization were greatly reduced.

The GUIs incident

Let me reveal some of the historical events upon which I based these opinions. While at Apple, Steve Jobs contracted Bill Gates at Microsoft to write new software to provide the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that were so critical to so many of Jobs’ greatest inventions.

These interfaces would allow a user to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators rather than having to type commands on a keyboard. As you might imagine, requiring users to learn a plethora of keyboard commands would present an intimidating barrier to entry for most.

Bill Gates was enthralled with the idea of graphical user interfaces and wanted to use them for Microsoft instead of Apple. Unfortunately, it would be unethical to steal a client’s idea. Fortunately, Bill coincidentally discovered that Jobs had learned the idea from products both Apple and Microsoft people had seen at Xerox PARC. Xerox had revealed what they had developed in the hopes that known producers such as Apple and Microsoft would buy the technology or help Xerox to commercialize it.

Therefore, GUIs were not Steve Jobs’ proprietary idea. It would therefore be fair game for Bill to develop software with graphical user interfaces for Microsoft instead. This led to the birth of Windows, a system that uses a mouse to drive a graphic interface which displayed text and images on the screen. Windows was quite an improvement over the text-and-keyboard-driven MS-DOS operating system.

Needless to say, when Jobs heard about Windows, he went ballistic. This led to Apple initiating a court case which was later dismissed as being without merit. But fair is fair. This is how creativity works – new creations emerge by re-combining existing information systems.

While Bill may have sourced software from the marketplace, he was quite clever about adapting and enhancing it for greater market receptivity. He did the same with Xerox’s GUIs.

He did not directly copy what Xerox had done. Rather, Gates combined Xerox’s ideas with the trends in his reality and other information systems plus his years of programming finesse to achieve a significantly more advanced outcome with Windows. Bill was just as creative but didn’t see the need to start from scratch as Jobs did.

Might I also note in Gates’ defense that, despite his criticism of Bill for “ripping off the ideas of others,” Jobs was unconsciously doing exactly the same thing with what he had learned from Xerox. This is not a criticism. This is simply the way creativity works for evolution’s adaptivity, for the uber-creative Steve Jobs, and for all of us ordinary folk.

Creative tension

Had Jobs realized this basic underlying dynamic of creativity on an implementation level, he might not have suffered the stresses and strains of the creative tension arising from demanding so much originality from himself and others. I think this creative tension led to issues with his temper, his toxic disparagement of others, and the health problems that plagued him. Even a dedication to mindfulness meditation could not dissipate all the creative tension he experienced.

It was undoubtedly this disposition and temperament which caused Jobs to launch a smear campaign against Gates. As we have seen, Jobs respected Gates enough to hire Microsoft for software development. According to his authorized biography, Jobs kept a note from Bill Gates beside his deathbed.[ii] All was not what it seemed between them. It would appear that many have had a plethora of wrong impressions about Bill Gates for decades.

Different savant domains

What Jobs and others assumed was Bill Gates’ savant domain was, in fact, not. As a reminder, “domain” and “field” or “industry” are not interchangeable in savanting. Existing epithets, fields, and categories may not apply.

Your savant domain is based on the maximization of your biological wiring. The bioflow maximizing machinery decides what your savant domain is at any moment in time based on the theme of which intrinsically or biologically rewarding activities incite your savantflows.

Jeff Bezos knew the truth about Gates when he switched disciplines from physics and Stephen Hawking’s space to computer science and Bill Gates’ worldbuilding. Yes, it is Bezos and Gates who are comparable not Jobs.

Jobs is the artist who strived for perfection in design to produce devices that were universally loved aesthetically and functionally. Steve was an aesthetic idealist to whom it was more important to create the best product than to sell the most. He had passion and vision for what technology could do in people’s lives and the magnetic charisma and incredible showmanship to promote his devices. Steve Jobs is truly a legend in the field of innovative and interactive design.

For Jobs, software was merely the means to run his devices, make them more endearing and better able to enhance the lives of consumers. For Gates and Bezos, it was the means to advance the structural underpinnings of civilization globally. For Zuckerberg, it was the means to unite humanity by creating, reinforcing, and joining the constellation of relationships of each individual. For all four, it was about bettering the quality of life of individuals en masse.

Bill Gates has a proven history of a logic-sourced creativity that even noncreatives might emulate. Gates took existing technology, adapted it to a specific market, and then dominated that market through innovative promotion and shrewd business savvy.

For example, Gates shrewdly chose not to offer to transfer to IBM the copyright on the MS-DOS operating system Microsoft was hired by IBM to write because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM’s system. This was Gates’ form of brilliant creativity. And he was right.

Much as he had anticipated, after the first IBM PCs were released, cloners such as Compaq began producing compatible PCs, and the market was soon flooded with clones. Rather than produce their own operating systems, the cloners decided it was cheaper to purchase MS-DOS off the shelf.

As a result, MS-DOS became the standard operating system for the industry. By 1993, Windows was selling at a rate of 1 million copies per month and was estimated to be running on nearly 85 percent of the world’s computers. Microsoft’s sales soared from $7 million in 1980 to $16 million in 1981.

A single creative business move may have generated the bulk of Microsoft’s revenue. Jobs, David Gelernter, and others had missed the true creativity and worldchanging breakthroughs of Bill Gates.

Microsoft solidified its industry dominance through another creative business move in the mid-1990s. They combined Windows with their other applications to create “suites,” then persuaded leading computer makers to preload their software on every computer they sold. The strategy worked so well that by 1999 Microsoft was posting sales of $19.7 billion, and Gates’ personal wealth had grown to a phenomenal $90 billion.

Gates’ passion for global business changed how business was done both within his industries and other industries as well. He set standards, first with MS-DOS and later with Windows. These standards shaped the modern computer industry and will continue to influence its growth for decades.

And now, he is repeating the process to generate new standards, structure, and strategy for more impactful mega-philanthropy to ensure it will cause permanent transformation in the world. The message here is that the real magic of the science behind savanting occurs in one’s savant domain. For those craving global impact, honor internal and external biology. Exploit biology to live a life of serial creativity and breakthroughs that will evolve humanity.

Vision from nonvisionaries

Bill Gates was criticized in the 1990s for not recognizing the power and potential of the internet. He was accused of not being visionary. Gates admits he did not embrace the Web until 1996, two years after browsers debuted. However, this does not mean this was the wrong decision for him or Microsoft.

It is not necessary to “see” trends if one is using the signals to move moment by moment with the bioflow evolutionary engine that is generating those trends. The bioflow would have been orchestrating the maximum of Gates’ system within the maximization of the Microsoft system within the maximization process for humanity’s system.

There is lots of evidence that Gates’ was attuned to the evolutionary advance of those three systems as well as those within his savant domain. Just by continuing to do intrinsically rewarding work every day, he could experience all the benefits of knowing trends without knowing them.

What appeared in 20/20 hindsight to be smart business strategy may in fact be simply compliance with the bioflow day after day as he had done since childhood because he had never lost the connection into which each of us are born.

Nonvisionaries can thus proceed as if they are insightful visionaries. By moving with the trendsetting bioflow engine one may exploit the trends to maximize within one’s savant domain. This is another way that the ordinary may achieve the extraordinary.

With 20/20 hindsight, the signals did not fail Gates. Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer, benefited from having a few years to see what features of other browsers were most valued. Microsoft could then capitalize on the best of the browsers to leapfrog them to create a product ahead of them all.

In yet another seemingly brilliant business breakthrough, Gates was then able to prevail in the browser market by bundling Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system, Internet Service Provider software, and new PCs from OEMs.

Thus, without the requirement for a user-initiated installation, Microsoft could lock consumers into its browser solution before users even had a chance to acquire and try another browser. Gates had not only caught up to the Netscape browser lead but leapfrogged ahead as he did with the Xerox GUIs.

The Netscape browser ultimately died despite its rapid success after early market entry. This was yet another business decision made by Bill Gates that locked in Microsoft revenues. It was not the browser “technology” which made the money. It was Gates’ savvy and creativity in inventing new business infrastructure in the frontiers of his savant domain.

Not everyone needs to have the creative mind of a Jobs or the venturing prowess of a Bezos to have creative breakthroughs. Noncreatives and nonvisionaries may proceed in partnership with the bioflow as if they have both creativity and vision. You are about to learn some of the ways in which the four iconic founders exploited the dynamic flow of information all around them as byproducts of this incredible biological guidance system.

As Bill Gates proves, despite his not having the technology visionary capabilities of a Steve Jobs, he was still able to sustain his position at the forefront of technology trends. He moved Microsoft at top speed to greater success than Apple by not just assimilating existing technologies but using them as springboards to jump ahead.

More about leapfrogging and springboarding in Chapter 17 to capitalize on environmental scanning to increase your creativity and creations. Technology vision is only a small part of Bill Gates’ savant domain for bettering the lives of people. His vision and creativity in the invention of the business infrastructure portion of his savant domain are unsurpassed.

Bill’s partnership with nature’s bio-underpinnings was working perfectly. Again, with 20/20 hindsight, Gates’ decision to focus on Windows in the mid-nineties over the internet was the right one for him and for Microsoft, even if the nay-sayers were correct and he seemingly did not have the vision to realize its value.

He analyzed the signposts inside and outside of himself correctly and took the right action as if he was a visionary. Significant revenues from the internet did not really emerge until around 2004 as Gates, the supposed nonvisionary, had predicted 10 years earlier. Therefore, little was lost by delaying attention to a browser and much was in fact gained by focusing on Windows.

So far, we have explored how savanting facilitates “brilliant breakthroughs from the nonbrilliant,” “creativity from noncreatives” and “vision from nonvisionaries.” Now we want to investigate how savanting enables “exceptional execution from the execution-challenged.”

[i] Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, October 24, 2011, Simon & Schuster

[ii] Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, October 24, 2011, Simon & Schuster

Instant Knowledge from Savant Episodes

SAVANT EPISODES

Excerpt from Savanting: Outperforming your Potential, Chapter 5 by Lauren Holmes (2019)

“Developmental psychologist Joseph Chilton Pearce is the grandfather of the conscious parenting movement. In his book “Evolution’s End” (1992), Pearce recounts a story from his own life that demonstrates what he calls a “savant episode.” It serves as another example of external information inflow, but this time from a nonsavant with normal intelligence.

In his early thirties, Pearce was obsessed with the nature of the God-human relationship – a key thrust of his savant domain. One morning his five-year-old son came into his room and launched into a 20-minute speech on the nature of God and man. “He spoke in perfect, publishable sentences,” Pearce writes, “without pause or haste, and in a flat monotone. He used complex theological terminology and told me, it seemed, everything there was to know.

“As I listened, astonished, the hair rose on my neck; I felt goose bumps, and, finally, tears streamed down my face. I was in the midst of the uncanny, the inexplicable. My son’s ride to kindergarten arrived, horn blowing, and he got up and left.

“I was unnerved and arrived late to my class. What I had heard was awesome, but too vast and far beyond any concept I had had to that point. The gap was so great I could remember almost no details and little of the broad panorama he had presented. My son had no recollection of the event.”[1]

Pearce speculated on how his son’s enlightening communication might have occurred. His son was a bright, normal child. At age five, his son had presented a field of knowledge which he could not have acquired – just as with savants.

“Terms such as telepathy are misleading,” Pearce warns. “He wasn’t picking up his materials from me. I hadn’t acquired anything like what he described and would, in fact, be in my mid-fifties and involved in meditation before I did.”

Pearce came to believe that his son had come into the influence of Pearce’s field of concern and the larger ancient field of theological and psychological inquiry. “My son’s theological discourse was not random but squarely in keeping with my own passionate pursuits,” Pearce claims.[2]

Since the information was beyond Pearce’s knowledge and comprehension at the time, psi or ESP could not have been a possible explanation. Therefore, Pearce concluded that his son must have undergone a “savant episode.”

Bioflow-driven savant episodes

Savanting offers another explanation. It is not his son who was driving the savant episode but Pearce himself. Pearce was operating in his savant domain exploring the nature of the God-human relationship. He was likely in savantflow operating at his maximum at the time. He was therefore connected to the bioflow which brings spontaneous information related to the activity generating the savantflow.

The savant episode was an example of support by the bioflow. This support includes providing information for your progress or growth through a multitude of sources. Such information might present through clusters of information coincidences, models of solutions, and facilitating people and events, for example.

Through his son, Pearce had access to information relevant to the goals of his savantflow within his savant domain in a slightly different way than savants. However, the same principles apply.

As an aside I should point out that Pearce unfortunately didn’t realize that the information his son conveyed was state-bound to Pearce’s very deep savantflow. He therefore did not immediately document the information so he could review it in his normal consciousness in order to retain it.

As you become the creative worldchanger you were meant to be, you’ll want to make it a habit to capture all your spontaneous knowledge during or immediately after your savantflows.

The first time I recognized that I was experiencing the type of savant episode Pearce has described was in 1992 when I had been operating in my savant domain for a little over a year. I had already recognized that my savantflows were getting deeper and more profound over that time. In this particular savantflow, I was stumped as to how biology was working in a certain situation.

A co-worker with negligible knowledge of biology opened my office door, stuck his head in, gave me the answer and then promptly closed the door again. He used the same monotone that Pearce noted for his son. To this day Jack has no idea why he did it, where he got the information, what he said, or even what the information meant when I repeated it back to him at a later date.

There is an additional part to savanting’s explanation of Pearce’s savant episode. In this chapter you are beginning to see evidence that we are all born into the bioflow and must be taught to separate from it by our cultural institutions and our parents. Therefore, preschool children tend to still be connected to the bioflow. As a result, they do indeed come out with information they have not absorbed through their five senses.

Pearce’s five-year-old son was still connected to and compliant with the bioflow. He thus became an instrument of the bioflow for providing the information that Pearce needed for the work of his savantflow. Preschool children thus become an excellent conduit for externally sourced savant genius for advancing one’s work in one’s savant domain.

I suspect that Jack became an instrument of the bioflow like Pearce’s son because he too was working in his savant domain and thus complying with the orchestration of the bioflow. Therefore, we can assume that the instruments for savant episodes are people connected to the bioflow. However, there is one more unexpected explanation for Pearce’s savant episode.

Savant Episodes vs information coincidences

First, I want to take a moment to differentiate savant episodes from information coincidences. Information coincidences will abound as soon as you begin savanting. When you are complying with the directional information of the bioflow you will be colliding with the right information at the right time for meeting savant-domain goals.

This means you will experience a multitude of seemingly serendipitous information events such as opening a book at the right page; flipping on the right TV channel at the right time; meeting a person with the exact answer you need; or clicking on an internet news item with the exact model for the solution to your goal.

Savanting is an entirely different paradigm of operation. Information coincidences are so prevalent in a serial-savantflow life that you’ll find yourself building into your project planning timeframes your accelerated progress as a result of expecting them. Their absence from other sectors of your life makes pursuing a life in your savant domain all the more enticing.

However, the savant episode that Pearce describes or my experience with Jack is a whole other level of mystical magic. This is a real person who gives you the answer you need without knowing they are doing it or having ever sourced that information in their past.

Information is nonlocal

What is the explanation for savant episodes and our increased access to information through savanting? Let me quote myself from a section entitled “All Information is Distributed” in “Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience” (2001, 2010):

“As we learned in investigating the knowledge technology, quantum physics proposes that all information is distributed or nonlocal. There is no local information or localized memory.

“It is a law of information theory that information transcends time and space, placing it beyond the confining limits of matter and energy. I thus hypothesized a holographic interconnection of all information. A universal information hologram into which we, as information systems, are integrated.”[3]

Albert Einstein reinforced this concept, “Time and space are modes by which we think, not conditions in which we live.” This is an important distinction.

Michael Talbot was the author of a book which was catalytic in launching my development of savanting. In “The Holographic Universe,” Talbot concurred with Einstein, “Challenging evidence is being offered from a number of different directions that information, not mass or energy, is the ultimate fabric of the cosmos.”[4]

Many have heard from physicists that information is nonlocal but have not incorporated the possibilities of this fact into their belief system to augment their access to relevant information. In fact, many assume they only have access to local information absorbed through their five senses. This belief therefore limits the reality that they can experience. Savanting provides the means to get practical about the application of nonlocalized information.

Alternative explanation of savant episodes

Therefore, I want to offer an uncommon explanation for Pearce’s savant episode which requires neither the spiritual nor religious disciplines normally associated with this subject matter.

There is a growing body of evidence developed by psychologists and consciousness researchers about the altered states of consciousness which are associated with even normal flow states. These are enhanced, accelerated, and amplified in savantflows. Over time savantflows become deeper, more productive, more creative, more profound, more mystical, and more expansive.

Consciousness continues to expand until suddenly you will experience cosmic-consciousness events in which you are one with everything. As you progress, you’ll eventually find that, in your deepest savantflows, you can enter cosmic consciousness at will when it is beneficial to the activity which has incited your savantflow. These states are much easier to achieve through savantflow than any form of meditation.

If one shifts into unity consciousness or cosmic consciousness in one’s savantflow only a single consciousness will exist. Therefore, Joseph Chilton Pearce and his son would have been a single consciousness having a single epiphany during a savant episode that was Pearce’s not his son’s.

Consequently, we may assume that the powers and potential of humanity may be greater than I have alluded to this point. They are greater than what is indicated by the existence of savants. The normal state of consciousness of future humans may be far different than what is prevalent today. Instead of visiting cosmic consciousness from today’s normal consciousness, we may instead be visiting normal consciousness from living life predominantly from expanded consciousness.

Needless to say, we are going to want to educate, enculturate, and nurture our children very differently in the future to retain the bioflow connection demonstrated by our six superachievers. Anyone wanting their children to achieve their true internal-external potential will want to identify and cultivate their child’s savant formula.

There are more examples of external information access by other categories of nonsavants in the next chapter. They will reinforce the hypothesis that the fuel behind savant genius is externally sourced and therefore accessible to all of us regardless of our intelligence, talents, or aptitudes.”

In our inner being, we are one with all. Swami Dhyan Giten

Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it to appear as the material world. Joseph P. Kauffman

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. Yasutani Roshi, Zen master

[1] Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution’s End, 1992 In: San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco; p. 8-9

[2] Joseph Chilton Pearce, Evolution’s End, 1992 p. 9-10

[3] Lauren Holmes (2001/2010) Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience: Chapter 11: The Power of Emotion

[4] Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, 1991, HarperCollins Publishers

Your Genius Formula

Your Savant Formula

Excerpt from The Encore: A Transformational Thriller from Chapter 11, Heroes in the Making by Lauren Holmes (2018)

Connor addressed the class. “Good morning, everyone!” Audience members responded in kind. “Over the last few days, you’ve all been working hard to assimilate a new modus operandi for breakthroughs and creativity that we want you to use to solve the planet’s crises.

“School is ending. Our time to begin implementation is at hand. We need to finalize a savant formula for each of you and identify the projects to which you will apply it. Think carefully about your selections as we step through a final review this morning. Let’s begin.

“What is a savant formula?”

Sibylla Lund called out, “It’s your maximum operation around the application of your strongest most rewarding talents. Your own maximization allows you to merge with the bioflow’s maximization process. This enables your capabilities to be extended by those of the bioflow – its evolutionary direction, forces, information, and the capabilities of the living systems it orchestrates. This gives you the means to operate beyond your internal potential.”

Sibylla was an unemployed electrical engineer from the shutdown of power plants due to the xenoforming and the switch to fossil fuels. She was referred to his Breakthru Mission by Axl Dahl’s wife, Freya. She’s a Varunian Freya met through her charity work.

“What else does bioflow integration give you, Sibylla?”

“It’s also the means to access spontaneous knowledge as coincidences externally or as breakthroughs and epiphanies internally,” continued Sibylla. “The more information fuel you have, the more easily, quickly, and frequently you can re-combine existing information systems to create a novel system or breakthrough that will get you to your goal more quickly.

“One breakthrough could bypass hundreds of steps requisite to achieving a goal. Our goal is to have serial breakthroughs driving our projects. Speed plus invention breakthroughs are of the essence. They are the key thrust of this Breakthru Mission since the normal modi operandi have failed to yield the necessary solutions to our crises. We’re a world weak in creativity.”

“Sibylla, I like how you’ve synthesized multiple lectures in a very net way,” Connor responded, obviously impressed. “Well done.

“Why did I name your bioflow integration prescription your ‘savant formula’ and the new modus operandi ‘savanting?’”

“It’s the best explanation for how savants with no working left brains and thus no ability to access, retain, and process large quantities of data, nevertheless demonstrate that ability,” explained Sibylla. “Their access must be external from information databases underlying the bioflow and all of its living information systems including the human species.” Connor nodded.

“What is the generic formula for immersing oneself into the bioflow, Dania? Dania Lind suddenly became a deer in headlights. He hadn’t meant to catch her off-guard. She had a Ph.D. in astrobiology after all and Sibylla had already given the high-level answer.

Oh. Connor suddenly realized that she was sitting next to Mikael Matsen again, the microbiologist. There was a romance forming between them, so she’d undoubtedly not heard his question.

“Anyone?” asked Connor as he tried to quickly take the spotlight off Dania. “What is the generic formula for immersing oneself into the bioflow?”

Gregor Stinar stood up. He was a lucky find assessed Connor. He’d just graduated top of his class with a master’s degree in bioscience engineering and was an expert in environmental technology, rare for his and Annalise’s tribe, the Azurites. Gregor had planned to take a year off to travel before settling into a career job. I suspect we wouldn’t have acquired him otherwise Connor speculated.

Connor had had to ask Axl to get Azurite Chief of State Einar Nyhus to wine and dine Gregor to impress upon him that his planet needed him. Connor had heard something about a promise of first-class global travel that apparently sealed the deal.

“In its simplest form,” began Gregor, “the bioflow is a machinery or set of mechanisms for maximizing living systems for survival. It promotes synergy among living systems. It orchestrates all living systems synchronously into the ideal evolutionary direction for all. Therefore, to integrate into it, one must be moving in the same direction or complying with its goals. One must be operating at one’s maximum. Or at least doing activities which will eventually maximize you,” Gregor added as an afterthought.

“Maximizing inside means you’ll relink with the maximizing machinery outside since they are a single system. When you’re complying with the direction and intent of the bioflow, you’re letting nature maneuver you into your most advantageous position vis-à-vis other living systems, information, and resources.”

“Extremely comprehensive answer, Greg. You’re seeing the big picture – how all of the pieces fit together. You’re understanding nature’s goals and how to exploit them to accelerate your own goals. Thank you for an excellent overview.

“Greg tells us we need to be compliant with our internal maximizing mechanisms to merge with the external maximizing machinery. What then is our maximum?

Dania decided to respond. Connor was pleased that her head was back in the game. She was extremely talented and well-educated. Connor expected great things from her. He wanted to ensure she didn’t waste her talents and opportunity for greatness on the distractions of a romance.

“Savantflow. And, before you ask,” laughed Dania, “that’s the flow state that arises when we’re applying our strongest most rewarding talents to the most meaningful and gratifying tasks for an audience that values that work. The biochemistry and electromagnetics of our most desirable emotions, the constellation of our drives for achievement and creation, our maximization instincts and genes have all evolved to pull us to this maximum to ensure the survival of the individual and the species. Savantflow is our automatic mechanism for flicking us into our maximum.”

“A very complete answer, Dania. Thank you. So how does one get into savantflow within the bioflow, Dania?”

“This is because your maximum is a constant and how the bioflow maximizes your system and indeed all living systems is also a constant. Suddenly you can seem to operate as if you have psychic abilities because you know which projects the bioflow will and will not support. Which projects will and will not succeed. Yet it’s simply a matter of knowing nature’s historical logic, goals, and directions.”

“Yes, thank you, Dania,” exclaimed Connor enthusiastically. He nodded at her with a proud grin to tell her that she had redeemed herself. “How does one discover one’s savant formula?”

Olivia Ohlson stood up. She and Kellin’s son Rolland were the youngest of the creatives at age 20. “To identify one’s savant formula, we simply need to look at our past pattern of events and activities that launched our savantflows.

“Whatever the theme of the activities causing our savantflows was in the past – our savantflows theme – will predict how you can move into savantflow in the future. Your savantflows theme will be your savant formula for moving into future savantflows.

“Or, uh, I guess you could call it your savantflow-bioflow theme. It’s this theme which will tell each of us precisely which projects to choose for success with Annutia’s Breakthru Mission.

“Right you are, Olivia,” confirmed Connor to validate both to Liv and the group that he respected how talented she was. She was another KahlDahr like Kellin and Rolland who was brilliant and inventive despite having been deprived of a formal education.

“Savantflow-bioflow theme captures our goal perfectly, doesn’t it? Thank you, Olivia.” Connor was pleased that he’d been right about Liv. Despite being so young she was excelling at savanting.

He had recruited her from the Programming Department after recruiting Kellin. Like Kellin, Liv had been overlooked as all KahlDahr are. Their protruding brows make them appear both menacing and primitive. Also, she was female, beautiful, poor, confident, creative, and self-educated, all of which increased the discrimination she had endured over her short life.

The ruling castes had missed that, with Liv’s unity consciousness, she could see how massive computer systems fit together. She had an executive perspective. Yet she could also work brilliantly on all the tiny details composing that larger picture.

He and Annalise had been waiting for the elevator for the Council Chamber when he watched her flowchart all of the systems for a bullying, condescending executive. He was obviously very much her senior, yet he was having great difficulty grasping the breadth of her thinking.

“What if you can’t identify the pattern in your past savantflow events. How else might you determine your savant formula?”

“Your spontaneous-knowledge theme,” called someone from the audience but Connor couldn’t see whom it was. “Determine the theme of the activities you were doing when you experienced breakthroughs, epiphanies, coincidences and other spontaneous knowledge events.

“Exactly,” said Connor. Other ways of determining your savant formula?

Kellin stood up, “Your unpaid-work theme. This entails an examination of the events in your past when you’ve done work that you crave so much that you’d do it for free. You love it that much. Whereas, others would charge for it because they consider it work. You should be able to trace this theme in patterns of events in your past.

“You’ll have emotional highs when you’re doing this kind of work so the positive-emotions theme will also apply. When you do it, there’ll also be the expected occurrences of spontaneous knowledge, flashes of genius, breakthroughs, and clusters of coincidences.

“This is exactly right, Kellin. You’ve lived your savant formula, haven’t you – since you made the car that died on your front lawn operational in your pre-teen years.” Kellin nodded.

“What’s the difference between breakthroughs, coincidences, spontaneous knowledge and epiphanies,” Connor continued.

Kellin, still standing, responded. “Nothing. They’re all re-combinations of information systems inside of you or outside of you to invent a new information system. They’re all part of the larger scheme of the creative evolutionary advance of the bioflow. Nature can’t always solve evolutionary challenges in a gradual incremental way. It must use quantum leaps to create a human eye for example. We want to harness the bioflow’s creativity production line to solve the crises of our world.”

“Excellent, Kellin,” Connor beamed. I never specifically stated that they were all part of the same continuum that connects our inner systems and brain to the bioflow or that they are simply an extension of nature’s own universal creative, adaptive, evolutionary process, but you figured it out.

“You’re obviously going to excel at exploiting the bioflow for your projects, Kellin. Just as you see how the systems of this huge Government Complex run, you have the expanded consciousness to grasp how the systems of the universe interconnect and operate.”

Connor wanted to ensure that KahlDahr Kellin, Rolland, Olivia and others were not intimidated by those with multiple degrees or from more elevated castes. He wanted them free to create and achieve at the maximum of their significant talents.

Connor was a big Kellin fan. The KahlDahr was so incredibly talented. He was also good people. The two had a special bond. They both shared a wisdom that comes from living from unity consciousness and seeing how everything is connected, even the two of them. He had a warm spot in his heart for Olivia and Kellin’s son, Rolland, for the same reason.

Rolland was still working on his biology degree, yet his expansive brilliance was more insightful than mature professionals in that field. He could see biological systems as ingeniously as his father could see mechanical systems or Liv could see programming systems. All three had effortlessly absorbed the systems thinking underlying savanting.

“You’ve created a quantum leap for everyone, Kellin. In savantflow, your concentration is simply on the creative act you are doing. You become pure creation. This is our natural state. This is nature’s natural state. This is my process of savanting in a nutshell.

“Let’s say you’ve never been free during your life to discover your unpaid work theme. What other patterns of events in your past could you track to determine your savant formula?” No one responded. “How else could you get into savantflow within the bioflow?” No one responded. “What other themes could you follow?” No one responded.

He had told them that all of the themes point to the same savant formula, so perhaps they thought learning only one or two would be enough. However, being fluent in them all means that you’ll be able to action incoming events in your life more quickly. You’ll make directional decisions faster.

“We’ve identified the savantflows theme or savantflow-bioflow theme, the spontaneous-knowledge theme, the unpaid-work theme, and the positive-emotions theme. What else?”

Finally, Henerik Halderson posited an answer. “You can look at the events of new knowledge that you naturally pursued since childhood.”

When they recruited him, Henerik was a biochemistry degree dropout seeking to find himself and his purpose. Henerik had blossomed with the Breakthru Mission and School. He had found his purpose.

“Yes, good,” reinforced Connor. “You want to assess the common thread of any new learning that you voluntarily sought. Your learning-pursuit theme or knowledge-pursuit theme.

Henerik nodded before continuing, “What growth have you sought historically? Your growth theme or growth-pursuit theme. What is the theme that runs through the times in your past when you were creative or inventive? And what is the common territory of new creations that you’ve historically sought? Your creativity theme or creation theme? Also, in what fields did you choose to be creative? What is your creativity-pursuit theme?

“And what is the commonality of the new territories of knowledge or new frontiers that you’ve historically penetrated? Your frontier-pursuit theme. These are all likely to also generate emotional highs so, as Kellin indicated, you could also track what work or activities generated passion, excitement, and enthusiasm. Your positive-emotions theme.”

“Good work, Henerik! You’ve added a number of categories of past events to our list for assessment. There are a couple more that offer alternative means to identify your savant formula. Anyone? Yes, Marta.”

Marta Kaase was a Varunian electrical engineer also laid off from the power plants like fellow-Varunian Sibylla. Connor had learned that in the Annutia caste system, Varunians were one step above the KahlDahr and one rung below the Azurites.

“Your successful-projects theme,” suggested Marta. “I think we could pick our future projects based on our past successful projects – ones with the tell-tale arrows that everyone has been identifying.”

“You’re exactly right, Marta. When you’re choosing your projects for the Breakthru Mission, you’ll want to ensure you capitalize on the formula that has created successful projects in your past. Now that you know about the bioflow, you don’t want to see those projects as isolated events. There is a pattern. If you can dig for it, there is no need to ever pursue a project that will not succeed again. Never again will you swim upstream against the bioflow to try to make a project work.

“We know if it’s a right project for us that we will see clusters of coincidences, breakthroughs and other spontaneous knowledge events, facilitating events and gates, emotional highs, and serial savantflows. Marta, what will we see if we choose projects not on the yellow-brick road, so to speak?”

“Blocks,” said Marta. “Setbacks. Negative emotions. The absence of any arrows or signposts. Hard work step-by-step instead of coincidences and facilitating events catapulting you forward hundreds of steps at a time.

“You’ll have to use discipline to push yourself to keep going instead of being pulled forward by compelling drives. The formula of past failed projects will continue in the future. There is now a predictability that never existed for me before. There appears to be an incredible order to reality where we assumed chaos.”

“Precisely,” said Connor. “Well done, Marta. I’ve asked you all to start developing hypotheses as to what projects you want to pursue to solve the planet’s crises. When you test them out, if they’re wrong for you or the planet or the evolutionary bioflow of the planet, Marta has described precisely what you’ll experience. You’ll then need to quickly replace those projects.

“We can do your first test right now. When you think of doing the project you have selected, are you excited or does your energy nosedive? That is your first indication. Are you going to have to push yourself to do the wrong project rather than being joyfully excited by the right project? Excellent work, Marta.”

“Who has remembered the last two themes or patterns of past events that you can evaluate?” probed Connor further.

Sven Steensen called out, “Your historical meaning theme or meaning-pursuit theme. What projects, work, or contributions have historically given your life meaning. What contributions do you crave to make?”

Sven was a mechanical engineer. Like Sibylla Lund and Marta Kaase, he was also laid off from a hydropower company as they had to return to burning fossil fuels.

“Thank you, Sven. Obviously, we need everyone doing work that is meaningful to them. This is part of the positive-emotions theme when you’re on the right path to maximization and immersion into the bioflow.

What is the last theme to identify one’s savant formula? Jordaan, what is the one we’re missing? The most elusive one until you develop this skill?”

“Resonance. Your pattern or theme of resonance events,” exclaimed Jordaan Jostad after a moment of pensive reflection. An astrophysicist, Jordaan is adept at applying the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe.

This was the perfect direction for someone who’d been addicted to the pursuit of astronomy and cosmology since his childhood years with his Dad, a world-renowned astronomer. Much to his surprise, his Dad was all in favor of Jordaan participating in the Breakthru Mission. Connor learned why at a social event at Axl’s home.

Apparently, Dad attributes his own success to an incredible memory and the logic to apply that knowledge. While they were both passionate about the same fields, these were not Jordaan’s strengths. He showed signs of being much more inventive, imaginative, and creative. Jordaan had a gift for inventing new scientific equipment and designing unprecedented computer software to analyze data and such. Dad’s strengths were left-brain; his son’s were right-brain.

Dad had realized when Connor selected his son that he’d recruited the right strengths for the Annutia Breakthru Mission. He felt Commander Kane could teach Jordaan things that he could not. That Kane could cultivate in his son strengths that he himself did not possess.

Because Jostad Sr, believed so much in Connor, he had secured additional funding for the program to ensure its success. Connor was pleased to have a creative as talented as Jordaan in the group.

“You are exactly right,” confirmed Connor. “Tell us about resonance and how to use it, Jordaan.”

“This is our frequency-sensing ability. You are one tuning fork. When you concentrate on a direction option which is the right one to take towards maximization within the maximization direction of the bioflow, it’s like a second tuning fork starts to tone in resonance with you, the first tuning fork. This is how you can proceed quickly and safely into unknown territory.

“You look at your list of possible directions and choose the one where you feel the surge of a second tuning fork beginning to cause vibration within you in resonance.”

“Is resonance the same as gut feel or intuition, Jordaan?

“No, sir. It has no additional information other than two things having the same frequency.”

“Precisely. Well done. Thank you, Jordaan.” Connor went to turn away and then turned back to ask as an afterthought, “Have you ever used your resonance, Jordaan?”

“No, sir.”

“Raise your hands. Who has used resonance or thinks they have? About 20%. I suspect that within a couple of months, most of you will raise your hands. Resonance or frequency-sensing is faster in determining direction. It means you won’t have to test various direction hypotheses to look for other indicator events in your reality before you can determine your best direction in which to proceed.

“Now, what if you don’t have the patterns of events of any of these themes in your past. A no-themes situation. What does that mean? What should you do? Yes, Mikael?”

“This means you’ve lived your life directed by external elements – you’ve been externally referenced – rather than complying with your natural addictive drives internally – or been internally referenced. Consequently, you haven’t maximized. Therefore, you haven’t merged with the bioflow. As a result, you’ll have less consistent patterns or fewer of them to help you to determine direction to achieve your goals. You won’t be able to recruit the power of the bioflow.”

Connor was pleased that Mikael had taken his attention off Dania long enough to participate. Mikael was brilliantly creative, perhaps the best after Kellin. Connor knew when he recruited him that he was going to excel at using savanting to solve the crises. Since then he’d proven even better than expected.

Mikael was another brilliant Varunian bench-pressing out of his caste. That he should have had difficulty finding work was such a waste of extraordinary talent. Connor was grateful for his availability to contribute to the Breakthru Mission.

“So, what do you need to do, Mikael?”

“Start savanting with serial savantflows so that the indicators will emerge. Then you can use them to predict your future and your ideal direction.”

“Exactly, Mikael. However, I’ll give you all a hint. None of you are in this ‘no-themes’ category. You were recruited based on your themes of past events in your life and their match to the planetary crises.

“Good work, everyone!” Connor praised. I’m going to give you the rest of today to analyze your past patterns of events to help you to pick out at least one project that has the greatest chance of success. Know your savant formula. Then use that formula to select the projects that you would be most excited to pursue to save Annutia.”

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?

The Secret Career Strategy of the World’s Most Successful Executives

The Pull of Paid Play The Triggering of Cascading Functionality Upgrades Performance beyond your Potential An upgraded modus operandi for the Everyman

Many of us have followed an externally driven career strategy. Once we take our first career job we choose the next to capitalize on the first. With repetition, we soon inadvertently commit to a career ladder for our increasing rewards. We compromise to conform to the requirements of each ladder rung to ensure our climb.

In contrast, those most successful in achieving the rewards to which so many aspire appear to be internally driven. Examine the lives of super-achievers Bill Gates (Microsoft co-founder), Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founders), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google co-founders), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) for this common thread. Rather than compromising to fit into the next job up the ladder, they create or take the job that provides the ideal next growth-and-achievement context.

This first article in the series will introduce you to how a biologically maximized career strategy will
• pull you ahead with addictive drives for growth and achievement
• cause new functionality to emerge, and
• have you operating at peak performance and beyond.

The Pull of Paid Play

For our seven super-achievers, the addictive play of their childhood continued as the paid play of adulthood. The movie, The Social Network, gives us a glimpse into the addictive play that engaged Zuckerberg’s greatest talents in the creation of Facebook. Bill Gates’ addictive software wizardry was irresistible play that got him into trouble as a child until it got him into Microsoft and money.

While Bezos’ programming expertise might have launched Amazon, it is his captivation with incessant invention – his true paid play – that has sustained Amazon‘s global prominence. His brilliance for creative solutions and his need for their challenge were evident from a pre-school age. Programming, computers and the digital world became tools for his invention. This resulted in Bezos’ change of venue for his drives to invention from physics to computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton as he narrowed to compliance with his biological bias. This foreshadowed a further refinement of venue for his addictive invention drives in leaving the safety of the corporate world for the unprecedented world of pure invention that became Amazon.

To others, this addictive play would be work. But to our super-achievers, this is irresistible play they enjoy so much that they would do it for free. It is work that is intrinsically rewarding. For all of them and for all of us, it is the specific “work” that each of us would want to do if we had unlimited resources and freedom. It is the work or play that we are innately predisposed to do. It is thus the grist of our greatest legacy and contribution to the world.

Imagine a career propelled not by discipline or external enforcers but by internal biological drives to use and improve our most addictive and rewarding strengths.

Built into the drives to this addictive play is the pressure to stretch to apply one’s best talents to creations at increasingly more challenging and impactful levels. We have evolved addictive drives that biologically bias us to use and improve our greatest strengths. We are biologically biased to peak performance. It is advantageous to the survival of the species. The more you comply with the addictive drives we have evolved for it, the more you want to comply with them.

The addictive drives entice one along a lifetime continuum of growth-and-creation iterations: growing oneself to grow one’s creative impact on the world. Aligning one’s career strategy with this biological bias yields superior performance and a commensurate increase in internal and external rewards. It is the ultimate formula for the maximized career and the maximized life.

Jeff Bezos was surrounded by gifted physicists at Princeton. While his marks were good, he knew he did not love the work as they did. He was not maximized by operating in his field of addictive paid play as they were. They offered him the model of a maximized career and life founded on their greatest strengths. Jeff shifted his academic major and his career to achieve this model. His seemingly multi-faceted career has been one of continuous narrowing to the addictive “invention” drives at his biological foundation. This is the maximized career strategy promoted in this blog series.

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

Repetitive experience of flow arising specifically from the application of your key talents to meaningful work will launch an accelerated growth continuum. New functionality and meta-skills will emerge. Therefore, the addictive play of our seven super-achievers inadvertently had them operating at peak performance while triggering continuous increases to their baseline functionality.

For example, the flow state associated with using and improving your key talents expands one’s perspective. As consciousness expands, the interconnections of all human systems become visible. The potential for a unified humanity becomes apparent. Each of the visions of our seven super-achievers was informed by their view of the world from their bouts of expanded consciousness in flow.

This shared perspective pulled Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google through the interim steps we have seen to date to unify and advance our world. Ponder the breadth of thinking of Page and Brin based on their Google mission statement:
“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” A mission “to set up a search engine” could never have inspired the diversification and impact that Google has achieved.

Expanded consciousness causes a chain reaction. Cognitive capabilities increase. Upgrades occur in conceptual skills, systems thinking, relational thinking, big-picture thinking, pattern recognition, the use of models, theories, and inferences, and abilities for creative and opportunistic problem-solving, adaptivity, and inventiveness. Does this remind you of the capabilities that emerged over time in our super-seven?

Performance beyond your Potential

The addictive drives that promote the application of one’s strengths have evolved as survival drives for the individual and the species. They are part of a network of internal and external forces that have evolved throughout nature to maximize living systems for survival. They are an extension of the same forces that keep our internal organs and systems operating at their maximum.

Most of our seven never separated from nature’s network of maximizing forces. Others, such as Jeff Bezos, re-merged when they turned themselves over to their natural growth-and-creation continuum. When we comply with our talent-promoting addictive drives we re-integrate with nature’s drives for maximizing systems. We shift into overdrive.

Circuits inside of us are completed by circuits outside of us to increase our performance for survival. Our capabilities are extended by nature’s capabilities. We can perform beyond our potential. As intelligent as our super-seven are, it is their slips into this internal-external overdrive that resulted in their moments of brilliance. Even those of average intelligence can achieve the genius of savant status in this biologically compliant state.

An upgraded modus operandi for the Everyman

The new method of operation examined in this blog series is a paradigm shift. It is the true secret career strategy of the world’s most successful executives. It explains their success in an unprecedented way that everyone may replicate. It provides one with access to levels of success one may not have thought possible for oneself. It offers a new route for each of us to make our most meaningful contribution to the advance of the world.

But it also hints at a future modus operandi for humanity. These seven men did not just discover a better career strategy. They did not just advance humanity on a better path. They modeled a new level of peak performance accessible to every human being. Explore your biologically maximized career potential in future blogs to push the envelope on your own lifetime achievements and rewards.

FURTHER READING:
Sourcing your Savant: Hyper-Focus your Career on your Genius
The New Career Maximums – Part One: Are you Settling for too Little?
The New Career Maximums – Part Two: Are you Settling for too Little?

Career Must-Haves I

THE NEW CAREER MAXIMUMS

– Part One – Have you settled for too little?

Excerpt from BioMaxed, Chapters 4-5 (2019) by Lauren Holmes

PART ONE: RELEASE INTERNAL POTENTIAL – Internal aspects of your biologically maximized career – new meta-skills; sudden knowledge, genius, breakthroughs, and creativity; whole-brain savantism; top-talent flow and growth; and aligning career and growth paths for paid growth and paid play.

PART TWO: BORROW EXTERNAL POTENTIAL – External support for your biologically maximized career – Borrow from nature and surrounding systems: predictability, power, resources, information, functionality, creativity, growth, and frontiering™.

Your biologically maximized career – serial breakthrough synthesis; serial top-talent flow; serial frontiering™; trend integration and mass synchronization; synergies and multi-system achieving.

Executives are charged with maximizing corporate resources for corporate gain. Many mechanisms, processes, procedures and systems have been put in place to discover and achieve maximum returns on corporate resources. However, one’s personal asset maximization is seldom the focus of career or life strategies.

Few identify their maximum possible career and then pursue it. Few pursue their maximum lifetime contribution to the advance of the world nor the commensurate tangible and intangible rewards. However, this is a common regret on the career front for the majority from their retirement rocking chair.

WHAT IS YOUR CAREER MAXIMUM?

Before I introduce some new potential career maximums, take a moment to determine what you currently consider your highest possible life’s work. The questions below may spur your thinking:

If you had total freedom and unlimited resources, what creations or footprints would you want to leave over your lifetime?
What work would you dedicate yourself to do to contribute to or advance our world?
Generically, what might your maximum career look like based solely on the continuous application and improvement of your strongest, most rewarding talents?
To what meaningful work would you dedicate your life in the absence of all impediments and distractions?
If we removed all of the demands of family, finances, and the challenges life throws at you, what would be your ultimate career?
If we stripped away all competing “careers” such as parenting, supporting one’s family, a hobby, or a cause, what would be your maximum creative expression? What are the creations for which you would like to receive your income?
What are your maximum possible lifetime achievements?
What could be your maximum possible career legacy?

In an unrestricted vision of lifetime career maximization, each of us would want to do meaningful work we are passionate about. We would want to grow in our ability to do that work. We would want to continuously increase its value and impact. We would want to apply our greatest talents – the talents we most enjoy – at their maximum to the work which would be most valued by the world and by ourselves. This is the work which will bring the most tangible and intangible rewards.

In the previous chapter, we learned about a biologically addictive ‘paid play’ that pulled seven executives to success: Bill Gates (Microsoft co-founder), Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founders), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google co-founders), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder).

Because this ‘paid play’ is driven by addictive drives, the more you do this kind of work, the more you want to do it. And the more you do it, the better you get at it. Eventually you will achieve breakthroughs that advance your paid-play domain. The drives which biologically predispose us to our field of ‘paid play’ pulled our seven iconic founders to superior performance and accelerated growth. The result was performance, throughput, and breakthroughs that far exceeded what they could have achieved through the controlling push of discipline. These superstars were internally or biologically driven.

Let’s have a look at some other biological maximums that you may not have thought to include in your previous determination of your career maximum. Let’s look at some of the new career maximums that will dramatically upgrade today’s state-of-the-art career strategy.

What is your biological career potential?

Strip away for the moment all of your competing life goals and struggles. What do you have the potential to accomplish if you applied full power to a singular focus? What is your true career potential? What does nature consider your maximum?

A career based on our biological maximum would be dedicated to work to which we are “biologically predisposed to excel” and “biologically predisposed to crave.” Such maximum work would require us to apply our strongest, most rewarding talents to their maximum. Our expertise with those talents would continuously upgrade at our maximum possible growth rate.

Our peak performance would be committed to our most valued work. This is the work for which we will receive the greatest intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. A biologically maximized career would be defined by the pull of our most addictive “paid play” and “paid growth.” It would be propelled by drives not discipline.

However, more than this, a career based on our biological maximums would comply with and capitalize on the maximizing mechanisms and processes that have evolved human beings. It would have us reintegrate with the flow of systems synergistically maximizing each other. It would not have us dissipating energy to oppose that flow. It would exploit maximizing forces and co-evolving systems so that their capabilities could be added to ours to enable us to achieve beyond our internal potential.

This is precisely what we observe in the careers of the seven accomplished founders of Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook.

Exploit biological maximizing for a career beyond your innate potential

The human biological imperative seeks the maximization of the individual and the species for survival. Nature routinely, perpetually, and impartially maximizes human systems for survival. Over generations, a “machinery” has evolved inside and outside of us to promote this maximization.

Inside, we may observe it maximizing systems within our body for health and performance. Think especially of the adaptivity of our immune and nervous systems to external elements, for example. Outside, we see this machinery maximizing stock markets, and economic and sociological systems.

It is only logical to assume that the same forces maximizing systems within a biological ecosystem would also act on each of us. We are a part of the larger maximizing machinery that evolved us. If we knew how to capitalize on this machinery, we could raise the bar on our career potential. We could extend our capabilities with these maximizing mechanisms, systems, processes, and intelligence to operate beyond what we might perceive is our inborn potential.

Only by reintegrating with this maximizing process will we know our true potential and hence our career potential.

What could you accomplish if you spent decades operating beyond your potential in your strongest domain?
What would be your career maximum if you spent a lifetime conscripting other systems to achieve bigger goals than you are capable of attaining on your own?
Where would your career take you if you rejoined the massive orchestration of all biological systems?
If you learned how to exploit this maximizing machinery for your own system and your career, could you not also apply it to maximize any human system to achieve beyond its potential?
Could you not extrapolate the same process to your subordinates, your company, your family, your child, a market, a country, or the system of humanity as a whole?
How much more profoundly capable would you be as an executive leading multi-system companies in multi-system markets? This too will increase your career maximum.
What business can succeed against a competitor harnessing the maximizing mechanisms of evolution?
What leader would choose to operate contrary to the direction of the evolutionary flow?

Let’s look first at some aspects of maximizing internally in Part One. In Part Two, we will look at some of the new career maximums possible by exploiting the external portion of the maximizing machinery.

Flashes of genius and sudden savantism

Our seven super-achievers experienced frequent flashes of genius beyond their potential as they complied with their biologically maximized careers. With some tweaks of biology, it is possible for even those of normal intelligence or less to experience those same spikes of genius.

Let’s compare these moments of brilliance to savant syndrome for a moment. Savants exhibit extreme talent in the wake of profound disabilities. A person with below normal intelligence is able to display an exceptional if not prodigious talent or ability in a specific area. Savants operate at levels that would be unusual even for normal people.

Many were introduced to this exceptional intellectual capacity by the savant star, Raymond, in the popular movie, Rain Man (1988). The inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s role came from Kim Peek or “Kimputer” who was born without the thick band of axons connecting the left and right hemispheres. Kim is capable of incredible feats of memory and calculation. He can recall over 7,600 books and has a nearly complete and up-to-date knowledge of world history, area codes, zip codes, roads and highways and much more.

Savantism appears to emerge when birth, injury, or dementia removes left-brain control of the right brain. There is evidence that the brain “re-wires” itself to not only avoid damaged areas but to compensate for them. The exceptional abilities observed in those who acquire savantism later in life do not emerge because of a sudden creation of skills. Rather, experts believe that what occurs is a release of skills and talents already present.

Since savant syndrome can be acquired, scientists believe that all of us, theoretically, have the potential to become savants. It appears that each of us may have a super-talent territory or savant domain in which flashes of genius beyond our normal intelligence can be achieved. Savantism suggests a greater potential of the human brain and how talent and genius may manifest. Since flashes of genius would upgrade anyone’s career maximum, let’s examine some alternative means to release our own savantism with some adjustments to our modus operandi.

Whole-Brain Savantism

Most of the known savants have been left-brain weak. This suggests that the level of left-brain intelligence will not determine who will experience the flashes of genius we observe in the lives of our seven super-achievers.

The left hemisphere of the brain provides logic, reasoning, analysis and objectivity. It is verbal and rational. Our right hemisphere is the hub for creativity, novelty, intuition, subjectivity, pattern recognition, and holistic and divergent thinking. It is your nonverbal and intuitive brain. It thinks in patterns. It comprehends pictures and “whole things.” It controls visual, spatial and relational thinking. It does not comprehend reductions, numbers, letters, or words.

Our goal is not the elimination of the left brain as in savants. However, the current scientific evidence suggests we will still need the left brain to release control of the right brain. This can be more advantageously accomplished by an increase in the right brain so that a partnership of both hemispheres can give us whole-brain operation. Our goal is a synergy in which the whole brain is greater than the sum of its two parts.

One might try allowing the left and right brain to operate simultaneously in parallel or synchronously to achieve this equal partnership. However, the right brain may be better freed for aspiring novice whole-brainers if one consciously uses alternating applications of right brain then left brain to any project. This will free the creative right brain for insights and genius without sacrificing left-brain logic and functionality.

Writers, for example, could do one or more freehand, unedited, and unrestricted right-brain passes for creativity, insights, and genius to develop concepts or story. A left-brain pass would address the logic, editing, grammar and spelling. Executives could do the same for developing strategic or tactical plans. However, whole-brain operation is easier to achieve than one might think. Other options are built into us as part of the maximizing machinery.

Whole-brain operation is a biological maximum. It is therefore better for the survival of the individual and the species. Consequently, we have evolved a biological bias to it. Many mechanisms, processes, and urges have evolved to promote whole-brain operation. Flow state is one important example internally that will be discussed below. External mechanisms that promote whole-brain flashes of genius will be revealed in Part Two. We can learn to bypass or overcome the cultural and corporate interferences that pressure left-brain control.

The “Eureka!” or “Aha!” effect

When normal intelligence is applied to action, implement, or operationalize your periodic “smart events” or breakthroughs, the sum total of your career performance will increase. Sometimes it only takes one breakthrough to make a career and change the world. Our seven iconic founders experienced serial breakthroughs as a way of life. You can too. Let’s examine internally and externally (Part Two) what will make that new career maximum possible.

The “Eureka!” or “Aha!” effect refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. If you source only partial solutions to a problem, then you are likely in the midst of a left-brain reasoning process rather than a right-brain “Aha!” event. This is about sudden knowledge, sudden knowing, and sudden access to new information.

“Insight” is the official psychological term in problem solving for instances in which a previously unsolvable puzzle becomes suddenly clear and obvious. Neuroscience and brain scans have located the part of the right brain in which true insights occur. The anterior superior temporal gyrus of the right hemisphere is where remote and unconnected associations are brought together and linked. As you will learn, the gyrus along with the rest of the right brain is activated by flow states.

It is interesting that anecdotal evidence records rapid experience of “Eureka!” events or seeming all-knowingness during near-death experiences (NDE) when cultural interferences have been minimized. The brain seemingly clicks into its maximized state of coherence and synergy especially with respect to the super-talent or savant domain associated with the strongest talents of each individual. NDErs experience savantism. For some, the savantism and bias for this domain survives the near-death experience.

There is an addictiveness to the highs of “Aha!” experiences that pulls you to pursue them again and again. As they increase in number, the baseline of your intelligence and functionality increases. Also, your knowledge of your savant domain goes up with each breakthrough. Your career maximum augments accordingly. In no time at all you are penetrating new frontiers in your field just as the seven super-achievers did with Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. Have you been settling?

Flow maximizes instantly

As mentioned, one of the internal mechanisms in the maximizing machinery is flow state. Psychologist, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, describes flow as our optimal and our most enjoyable experience in his book of the same name (1991). Flow is our maximized state. All the body’s resources are trained on the current intrinsically rewarding work. The biological imperative, then, will seek to have us operate in flow 100% of the time. Because flow is an addictive, peak-performing and peak-growth state, it is one of the key drivers of human evolution.

To experience this wonderfully rewarding state of flow, one must be stretched beyond one’s previous capabilities. Therefore, a maximum- or flow-seeking career will go beyond peak performance to peak growth. We are not only biologically biased to peak performance but to increasing the baseline functionality of that peak performance. How smart of the human species to have evolved an addictive maximum state that draws us to perpetually transcend ourselves. Accordingly, the maximum of a flow-focused career would continuously rise as well.

Your maximum flow: top-talent flow

All flow states are not equal in achieving savantism or your biological and career maximums. Maximization promotes peak performance from peak strengths for peak expression, peak impact, and peak rewards. Your true maximum flow state will therefore emerge from using and improving your strongest, most addicting, and most rewarding talents in the domain most facilitating for and valuing of their use. I call these extended periods of operating at your talent-based maximum “top-talent flows.”

If you were going to release your inner savant or super-talents, this is the territory in which it/they would emerge. Just as in savantism, the skills of extraordinary performance are already biologically present rather than having to be cultivated. Most who acquired savantism later in life never demonstrated their savant domain or super-talent territory prior to the injury or dementia which damaged the left brain thus releasing their right brain to savantism.

Since top-talent flow is our true maximum, we are biologically biased to pursue this intrinsically gratifying state. This is the flow state most supported by mechanisms, processes, and drives enmeshed within the internal-external maximizing machinery. It is dramatically more powerful and transformative than any other form of flow. Accelerated growth, breakthrough creations, new meta-skills, and flashes of genius and savantism are significantly more prevalent.

Exponential magic happens in your top-talent flows. Now imagine how powerful and transformed our seven founders would be after spending years in these transformative flow states which emerge while they are applying their greatest strengths. This is what I believe caused the significant accomplishments of our seven achievers. In many cases, these flow states enabled achievements beyond their innate intelligence.

A majority of the seven had computer, internet, and software work in their childhood or early careers. Computer programming is particularly compelling for inciting top-talent flow states. Colloquially, they are called “hack mode,” a Zen-like state of total focus. They are so captivating that many programmers blissfully program all night and forget to eat. They are so addictive that they not only became the “paid play” of many of our seven founders but fostered an industry of computer and video games. This is how I believe these seven were pulled to their achievements rather than pressured by a superior discipline or outside force to achieve them. This suggests an alternative career strategy for those highly disciplined executives who have achieved neither the intrinsic nor extrinsic rewards that they seek.

Sudden savantism through top-talent flow

A person in flow state has alpha brainwaves not unlike those of a Zen monk in meditation. When in this alpha-intensive state, we can retain cognitive consciousness for far longer than the few seconds of duration characteristic of normal, beta-wave consciousness. This extended consciousness equips us to solve complex problems, follow extended chains of reasoning, and take on tasks that we simply cannot fit into the transient episodes of normal beta-wave arousal.

Flow states also seem to be more conducive than normal consciousness to activation of the right anterior superior temporal gyrus, the region of the brain associated with intuitive leaps and sudden insight. It appears that the chatter of beta-wave activity in normal consciousness somehow competes with our “Aha!” circuitry. In addition, the requirement for stretching beyond one’s previous capabilities to enter into flow, upgrades capabilities and performance towards savant stature.

However, the real power of top-talent flow is that it releases our whole-brain genius to full power. The right brain is freed from left-brain domination in this maximal flow state. Thus, the triggers of acquired savant syndrome are duplicated. Whole-brain flow incites the perfect left-brain and right-brain synergy.

Growth through top-talent flow

Flow is a peak-performance and peak-growth state. Growth is built into flow and particularly top-talent flow because a) flow is so fulfilling that it becomes addictive, b) achieving this intrinsically rewarding flow state requires us to be stretched beyond our previous capabilities, and c) flow is a transforming state. Learning adds new information to one’s existing system. However, top-talent flow actually reformulates or re-wires one’s system with new functionality and new potential.

This is what I believe our seven super-achievers experienced. As a result, they spent their careers operating at peak growth. Year after year they raised their baseline functionality and the level of impact of their creations and achievements faster than most of us would. This is what happened with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple. Not all of the founders are as brilliant as what they created. However, by adhering to the domain to which they are biologically predisposed, achievement beyond expectation was possible.

Year after year, their meta-skills and “Aha!” events increased in top-talent flow, so they not only operated beyond their potential, they raised that potential. Consciousness expanded. Conceptual skills increased. So even if Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, Bezos, Brin, Page, and Zuckerberg did not start with genius, it would likely emerge over time. The skills and meta-skills that developed in the savant domain would spill over into other facets of their life to raise overall performance and intelligence.

For example, one’s ability to break through frontier after frontier in one’s savant domain would provide expertise for penetrating new or unknown territory in other disciplines in which one’s performance was innately inferior. What would your career maximum be if you never diluted your savant strengths and never left your savant domain? This is what our seven iconic founders share and demonstrate for us.

New meta-skills from extensive top-talent flow experience

Elevations in consciousness will increase our functionality and meta-skills. Cognitive skills, for example, will advance. Operational intelligence will be improved by upgrades in abstract thinking, conceptual thinking, big-picture thinking, systems thinking, strategic thinking, mental agility, adaptivity, pattern recognition, trend perception, environmental scanning, problem re-framing, and ambiguity resolution. Notice the addition of many right-brain capabilities in particular.

Few educational programs have been effective in developing any of these meta-skills. However, they upgrade collectively as a paradigm shift when we reintegrate into the maximizing machinery and experience serial top-talent flows. These kinds of meta-skills are pivotal to executive performance. Executive career maximums therefore will upgrade significantly with this proposed maximum modus operandi.

Paid growth, paid play –
Make your natural growth path your career path

The biologically maximum career would consist of a series of top-talent flow experiences in which you would continuously a) surpass your previous performance and b) re-wire your system to raise not only your baseline functionality but also your potential.

Our growth path, then, will be a nonlinear amplification or expansion or intensification of our strongest talents to increase their power to impact reality and the precision with which they create. It will be a growth path in which we are constantly breaking through new frontiers of knowledge, skill, and reality impact in our savant domain. This accelerated growth path would thus define our maximum career path, biologically speaking.

We have a biological predisposition towards enjoying the application of certain talents more than others. Therefore, your maximum is innate. Hence, your growth path will be innate given that nature only seeks to maximize systems for survival. Therefore, your ideal career strategy is one of being paid to grow your most fun talents and to apply them to larger and more meaningful projects (see figure 1).

Read Part Two to learn more about external maximizing mechanisms and their synergy with internal one’s such as those discussed here in Part One.