John Sorflaten was born and raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He loved that it was a big small town growing up. He loved the community feel. His father was a radio announcer. At thirteen years old his family moved to Missouri when his dad decided to become a minister. They then came back to Minneapolis where his father started his first church. He now appreciates how his dad took on a longer commute so that his kids could grow up on the lake. He graduated from high school in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
More about John: “John Sorflaten, PhD, CUXP, is the author of two science-fiction novels, Thrall Conspiracy — Solar Conjunction, Book 1 and Thrall Conspiracy Genesis: A Pole Star, Twin Helix Chronicle Book 2. He is also a Vietnam War veteran, a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, and the founding owner of Optimum Performance Training, LLC.

He has over 30 years of experience in working with the human factors in human-computer interface design and instruction across a significant variety of platforms, contexts, and engagement venues. He provided “user-friendly design” consulting and training to Fortune 500 companies and National Security Agency. Prior to forming his own company, he worked Human Factors International, and successfully led the largest design project at its time, culminating in a full redesign of www.ninds.nih.gov. It won a “Best of the Feds” award. While studying cinematic arts in the late 1960s at USC, he briefly worked on crew for filmmaker George Lucas. After college, he served overseas in the military during the Vietnam War, earning Distinguished Officer Award from US Air Force Officer Training School. In the early 1970s he completed training as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and has taught students for over a half-century. He also directed Louis Wilson’s great video camera work of the Twin Galaxies 1082 Video Game Olympics and the famous 1983 Life Magazine Video Game Champions photo shoot. That footage appeared in films like Chasing Ghosts: Bevond the Arcade and King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters (both 2007) as well as Frag (2008) and CNN’s documentary *The Eighties”. He earned a PhD in Instructional Design, Film Theory, and Science Education from University of Iowa. He received a Master/s in Interdisciplinary Studies from Maharishi University of Management. He earned a BA in Cinema at University of Southern California.” Sorflaten can be found on social media across many platforms, including these: https://www.facebook.com/john.sorflaten1, https://www.instagram.com/johnsorflaten/, https://www.tiktok.com/@johnsorflaten?lang=en, https://twitter.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsorflaten/, and https://www.pinterest.com/johnsorflaten

Thank you for being our guest on The Mike Litton Experience John! You are remarkable!