349. The psychology of flow states
The Psychology of your 20s
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
You know that feeling when time disappears, your focus sharpens, and everything just clicks? That’s what we often call ‘flow state’ - a powerful experience of total immersion where effort feels effortless. In today’s bonus episode, we uncover what flow really is, how it works, and why finding it might just change how you think about focus and fulfilment.
We explore:
• What the flow state actually is
• The history and psychology behind the concept
• What it feels like, and how to know you’ve reached it
• Why some people find it easier to access than others
• What’s happening in your brain during flow
• Practical ways to find it in your own life
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| 0:49.3 | through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology. |
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| 1:11.2 | episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s. Today, we've got another one of |
| 1:20.0 | our bonus episodes. These like kind of shorter coffee break style chats are when we take one psychological concept, one word that gets thrown |
| 1:30.1 | around a lot and really just unpack what it actually means. Normally, like we don't, |
| 1:35.9 | like they don't really have enough content for like a whole 40 minute episode, but I still |
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