FlowCast #66 | Creating Flow With Music with Josh Cook

Josh Cook @_joshthemusician is an entrepreneur who composes, produces, and teaches music. He’s also a fellow infinite learner and in this conversation we talk about flow states in music, bringing others along for the ride, zen stoicism, and applying creativity and flow to stock trading.

1:30 - Who is Josh Cook?

2:00 - Musical background

4:15 - Building passive and digital income sources during COVID-19

6:45 - Josh’s online music courses

8:30 - Flow and music

9:45 - Snapping back into flow*

11:00 - What type of music does Josh find most flowy

13:30 - Magic and creating awe

16:00 - Teaching and passing on the craft with music

17:15 - Tricking students into flow

20:30 - Fixed versus growth mindset

23:00 - What is Josh pushing himself for growth with right now?

25:45 - What trading stocks has to do with learning piano

29:00 - Remembering what’s under our control *

32:00 - Practicing mindfulness with patience *

38:00 - What is Josh reading right now?

42:00 - Disaster proofing Flow Spa

49:30 - What is RJ using at Flow Spa more than he expected?

52:30 - The Neurochemicals responses of floating and cold plunges

56:00 - What’s RJ reading right now?

1:00:30 - The big FlowCast reveal - new intro song.

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