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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and you probably at some point in your life have experienced

this state called flow, even if you didn't know it was called that.

So if you've ever lost an afternoon to a great conversation or you've got

so involved in a work project that you just forget about everything else or you find yourself

during a workout, just firing on all cylinders, then you've probably kind of tasted this experience.

And this flow state is where you're so focused on a task at hand that everything else just kind

of falls away and time flies by. In many cases, your performance, whether that's your mental

performance or your physical performance kind of goes through the roof. Now my guess today

has actually written a book in which he decodes what he calls the science of ultimate human

performance. And he's written this book called The Rise of Superman. It's a simply amazing book

in terms of how it goes into breaking down the neuroscience of this flow state. What happens to

your brain waves? How you can almost like biohack yourself into this state of flow, even if you're not

a super athlete and how you can tap into a lot of the principles that he talks about in the book

to achieve some pretty amazing feats of physical and mental performance. And it's a pretty fun

read as well. So we're going to be able to delve into a lot of that. And I think you're going to

really dig this interview today. So my guest is Stephen Kotler and he's in New York Times best

selling author. He's got some other really good books too. I've read his other book called Abundance

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