This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Every year I attend an event called Burning Man.

If you don't know it, it's a 75,000-person city that comes into existence only one week a year.

It's built by artists and sculptors and mad scientists in one of the most inhospitable

deserts in the world. Nothing lives there but stink bugs, and it's so hot and dry, they don't even

stink. Burning Man is a leave-no-trace event. It means exactly what it sounds like. Every single

thing you bring in, you take out. Everything. Every can, every wrapper, you even collect and

evaporate your wastewater. While this

sounds like a lot of work, it's actually an unfriken believable amount of work, and that's a good

thing, because it's the perfect environment to uncover a deep truth about how human beings operate.

Humans have flow. When you're brushing your teeth, you have to put all of your attention on brushing, because

how will you wet your toothbrush without getting any water on the playa?

Where will you spit?

How will you rinse your mouth?

In daily life, we have sinks and plumbing to take care of all that, but at Burning Man,

none of that exists.

So you put your full attention on brushing your teeth.

You think through every movement.

Do you account for everything?

You enter a state of flow.

When we have to put our full attention on something, our brains quiet out.

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