Flow's most important triggers what's known as the challenge skills balance.

The idea that we pay the most attention to the task in hand flow follows focus when the challenge of the task slightly exceeds our skill set.

So you want to stretch but not snap.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast.

I am your host, Ben Bikolsky.

Thank you so much for joining us here today.

This podcast is my passion project to truly understand what goes into getting the most of our life.

That could mean physical, that could be mental, that could mean spiritually and emotionally, and all the facets of an exceptional life and ultimately being

an exceptional human. One of the things that I most often quoted is saying is, I'm passionate

about people who begin where everyone else ends, people who truly aspire for excellence in their life, they teach us where our boundaries

are.

They teach us where our limits are, maybe where our limits are not.

Today's author is very much in alignment with my mission.

Stephen Kotler joins me today.

Stephen is a New York Times best-selling author, an award-winning journalist,

an executive director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world's leading experts

on human performance and flow. And if you don't know what flow is, you're going to want to

listen carefully to this podcast. Get out of paper and pen because we're going to literally

walk you through processes on how to achieve the highest state of flow

and ultimately what that is. Stephen is an author of 11 bestselling authors. He's written 14 books in

total, including The Art of Impossible, which is one of my favorites. The Future is Faster Than

You Think, Stealing Fire, which everyone should read, The Rise of Superman and Bold and Abundance, which he partnered with Peter Diamandis, who's the creator of the XPRIZ, incredible collaboration there.

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