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The Jay Ferruggia Show

#216: Steven Kotler on Ultimate Human Performance and Finding Your Flow

The Jay Ferruggia Show

Jay Ferruggia

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Think about the times when you've performed at your absolute best.  The times when your focus and clarity were so intense that you knew exactly what to do from one moment to the next.  The instances where you were your most productive, creative and powerful self. 

 

Athletes call it "the zone" but it's also known as the flow state.  Unfortunately, for most people flow states are sporadic and by accident, if they happen at all.  But what if you could put yourself into a flow state anytime you need to?  Imagine what it would do for your business, training, success, and life.  Steven Kotler is my guest in Episode 216 of the #RenegadeRadioPodcast and he holds the keys to unlocking flow on command. 

 

Steven is one of the world's leading experts on ultimate human performance.  He is the co-founder and director of the Flow Genome Project, a global organization committed to mapping the genome of flow by 2020 and making it available to everyone.  He is also an award winning journalist and the NY Times best-selling author of several amazing books including "Stealing Fire," "Bold," "The Rise of Superman," "Abundance," "A Small Furry Prayer," and "West of Jesus". 

 

Show notes for this and every episode can be found at www.JasonFerruggia.com

 

 

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? This is Jay Ferrujia and you are listening to another

0:16.0

episode of the Renegade radio podcast and I thank you for downloading it. I

0:19.4

thank you for sharing it. I thank you for leaving iTunes reviews. If you haven't left one yet can I ask you a

0:25.0

favor to please do so. That's how we keep it moving, keep it high, keep the show

0:28.4

growing. And today's episode is a special one because it features one of my favorite authors Stephen

0:34.2

Kotler he's a New York Times best-selling author he's an award-winning

0:37.5

journalist and the co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome

0:41.9

Project Stephen is one of the world's leading Director of Research for the Flow Genome Project.

0:43.2

Stephen is one of the world's leading experts

0:45.6

on ultimate human performance.

0:47.4

And that's what we're gonna get into today.

0:49.2

That flow state that you hear athletes and geniuses

0:52.1

and artists talk about. how do you achieve that

0:54.0

flow state how do you tap into it how do you achieve it on demand can you do it

0:58.0

Stephen says yes and he's written about it extensively in books like stealing fire

1:01.9

and the rise of Superman.

1:03.0

So I think you're going to get a lot out of this episode.

1:06.0

And today's episode is brought to you by

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4Sigmatic, which is a perfect sponsor because it's all about achieving a higher level performance which

1:14.9

four-sigmatic does help you do whether it's in your workouts with their cortiseps

1:19.0

whether it's you know improving your sleep with their sleep sticks or whether it's helping you get

1:24.4

focused without getting too cranked up and disturbing your gut like coffee does

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