Fast Focus & Flow (Q&A with Steven Kotler)
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steven Kotler and I go in depth on focus and flow. Both focus and flow are common traits among top performers and we're going to break down some of the best ways to improve these for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free your mind. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. Welcome back. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.0 | Come food. Welcome back QuickBrain. |
| 0:25.0 | So we know that flow is a state of optimal human performance. |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, who doesn't want to feel their best and do their best? |
| 0:32.0 | Some people call it the zone, but here's the question. Can you live |
| 0:35.7 | and flow 24 hours a day, seven days a week? What technology helps to train flow? How do you use breath and music to hack flow? These are just |
| 0:45.8 | some of the questions we ask New York Times best-selling author Stephen |
| 0:48.9 | Kotler in this must-requested follow-up to our recent two episodes that we did with him about leveraging |
| 0:55.8 | flow for greater focus and creativity. Now if you haven't yet listened to the previous shows |
| 1:01.9 | with Stephen, I highly recommend you do that first. |
| 1:04.8 | His latest book called Stealing Fire is a must read on elite mental and physical performance. |
| 1:10.0 | Now in this episode, speaking of Fire fire we ask him your burning questions |
| 1:14.4 | including how he cultivates flow in the first six hours of his day and his |
| 1:19.1 | top three actionable ideas. Based on that, there's one question in our private Facebook group that ask if you could live in a flow state. |
| 1:31.0 | And I guess after you're going through those four stages I would |
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