#50 - Rehan Khan: How to Defeat Distraction, Enter Flow & Write Great Stories

I’ve known Rehan Khan for over 30 years and he was one of my very earliest teachers and mentors. He is now a thought-leader, professor, novelist and an advocate for virtue-based storytelling and leadership. His work has spanned consulting for major global corporations, teaching post-graduate courses at one of the world’s leading business schools about AI, the future of work and leadership, as well as delivering training courses on focus and productivity, drawing on his business book, Distracting Ourselves to Death.Uniquely, Rehan is also a multi-series novelist. His books include the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk series set in the 16th century, as well as the standalone A Tomb of Empires set in 90BC, and more recently the fantasy sci-fi epic series Tales of Khayaal.Follow Rehan.Rehan’s website.Buy Tales of Khayaal.(0:00) Trailer(1:17) Introduction(4:16) Our attention problem(6:47) Remove noise, find pearls(10:18) Creativity & discipline(13:10) How to enter flow states(17:45) Your phone is your enemy(23:18) Is the AI threat overblown?(34:00) Rehan’s faith journey(41:18) Virtue-based storytelling(1:00:29) Conclusion