3 Triggers To Maximize Your Focus And Creativity - Steven Kotler

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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After Lyme disease attacked Steven Kotler’s neurological system, he decided to commit his life to the scientific study of enhanced cognitive states like flow. Steven has been able to automate and articulate this previously mysterious state of productivity, and in this episode, he shares a few of his secrets about entering this elusive mindset. Listen out for: - The real definition of flow and the importance of it. - What are mystical experiences? - 3 flow triggers that maximize your creativity. ABOUT STEVEN KOTLER As one of the world’s leading peak performance experts, Kotler is a highly sought-after trainer and speaker with clients including Google, Cisco, Deloitte, a stable of professional athletes, and the US Special Forces. He is a New York Times bestselling author of Stealing Fire, Abundance, The Rise of Superman, and others. He has also been featured on Ted Talks, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and a plethora of other world-renowned platforms. Steven’s new book, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Prime, is now available to purchase. Bonus: - Subscribe to Mindvalley Membership to discover 30+ Mindvalley Quests, watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW - Learn what it takes to create a life that exceeds your expectations with Steven Kotler’s FREE Mindvalley Masterclass here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/thof_podcast Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you think about your fears, your anxieties, most of them are horrible things that happen
0:04.9	in the past that you'd like to avoid happening in the present, or they're scary shit that
0:08.4	might happen in the future, and you'd like to navigate around from the present.
0:12.3	Very little of our fears, unless you're an action sport athlete, in a dangerous situation,
0:16.7	or a soldier in combat, or a boxer, martial artist kind of thing, are acute.
0:21.2	Most of our fears are not present tense, so by removing past and future from our consciousness,
0:27.3	anxiety disappears.
0:29.2	I am Vision Latiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:33.6	You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast, where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers
0:37.4	and thought leaders on the planet. It has cast a world's most powerful ideas in personal growth
0:42.7	for mind, body, spirit, and work.
0:47.2	So it's great to be with you guys. It's fun to be back at Mind Valley. You guys heard a little
0:51.5	bit about my background. I'm an author, I'm a journalist, and I'm the co-founder and director
0:56.8	of research at the Flow Genome Project. And what we study at the Flow Genome Project
1:00.3	is ultimate human performance. What does it take to be your best when it matters most?
1:05.6	What does it take to significantly level up your game? We're interested in paradigm,
1:10.4	shifting breakthroughs. Nothing is ever the same again. And really, in a phrase,
1:14.9	if you can sort of get past the hyperbole and get to the practical level of this,
1:18.8	our interest in what it takes to do the impossible.
1:22.0	So we are in the middle of kind of a giant revolution in what it takes to achieve
1:27.6	then possible. And it is counterintuitive. It is strange. It is unusual. It turns a lot of our
1:34.0	old ideas about high performance upside down. And it sits at the nexus of kind of two different
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